Sling Media Slingbox
 

Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet? Great for
travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/

Jennifer L. Boyd wrote:
Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet? Great for
travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/



It was the subject of a thread a couple days ago. There was some
controversy about how useful it was. SINNER and I thought it was
interesting and potentially convenient. Others disagreed ;-).

Randy S.

* Randy S. Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:

Jennifer L. Boyd wrote:
Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet?
Great for travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/



It was the subject of a thread a couple days ago. There was some
controversy about how useful it was. SINNER and I thought it was
interesting and potentially convenient. Others disagreed ;-).


Now there's a shock ;)


--
David

SINNER wrote:
* Randy S. Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:


Jennifer L. Boyd wrote:

Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet?
Great for travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/



It was the subject of a thread a couple days ago. There was some
controversy about how useful it was. SINNER and I thought it was
interesting and potentially convenient. Others disagreed ;-).



Now there's a shock ;)



Well, at least S**n isn't around trying to convince everyone that I'm
the sole Jewish member of the KKK ;-).

Randy S.

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Jennifer L. Boyd wrote:
Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet? Great for
travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/

It doesn't sound that different in functionality than what I can do with my
MythTV box, or that you could do with a networked TiVo and a Linux server
into which you can ssh. It might be a little bit easier for a n00b to set
this thing up...

In theory, but the SJ Merc's review said it was very hard to set up and they
questioned the usefulness, even to techies.

(Don't get me wrong, the idea is great -- I'd love if I could get some
news-ish shows to use as background noise at work for example.. Though after
playing with the podcasts for the first time today, I see that Nightline is
available as a podcast. I haven't checked yet whether it's the entire show,
but for some talking heads shows like this, the audio is about all that's
needed.)
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Randy S. ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
Well, at least S**n isn't around trying to convince everyone that I'm
the sole Jewish member of the KKK ;-).

When did you transfer your membership from the Black Panthers to the KKK? ;-

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| in the science of furniture...especially
| considering they have only one known tool."
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Jeff Rife wrote:
Randy S. ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:

Well, at least S**n isn't around trying to convince everyone that I'm
the sole Jewish member of the KKK ;-).


When did you transfer your membership from the Black Panthers to the KKK? ;-


You mean I can't hold dual membership? ;-)

Randy S.

It doesn't sound that different in functionality than what I can do with
my
MythTV box

Except it doesn't require the same sort of goat sacrifice it takes to get a
mythtv box working on anything other than a VERY narrow set of hardware.

"Randy S." wrote in message
...
Jennifer L. Boyd wrote:
Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet? Great
for
travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/



It was the subject of a thread a couple days ago. There was some
controversy about how useful it was. SINNER and I thought it was
interesting and potentially convenient. Others disagreed ;-).

--Only caveat that I had with it is that the client only works on Winblows
XP for now.
Looked good to me other than that.

Scotty

I've had Slingbox for a couple weeks now and love it for what I use it for.
Very easy to set up. For me, it's a convenient way to do two things:

-wireless way to get my DirecTivo on my upstairs pc.
-remote DirecTivo at work (beware you do have to be running on XP)

I'm about 8 miles from home to work, and the resolution looks as good as it
does at home (not superb, but not awful).

Two more big tests coming up are trying it on my laptop when I travel to
Ohio next week (I'm in California) and then Ireland the next. It's just
kind of a gee whiz kind of thing that I would be able to control my Tivo, or
other box from Ireland. Home away from home.

"wkearney99" wrote in message
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It doesn't sound that different in functionality than what I can do with
my
MythTV box

Except it doesn't require the same sort of goat sacrifice it takes to get
a
mythtv box working on anything other than a VERY narrow set of hardware.

the major problem with it is you need to connect it to your router via
ethernet, not Wifi, so your TV must be near your router. Other than that it
is a great idea


"Jennifer L. Boyd" wrote in message
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Anyone heard of this? Sounds good to me. Anyone using it yet? Great for
travel. I must get one.

http://www.slingmedia.com/

the major problem with it is you need to connect it to your router via
ethernet, not Wifi, so your TV must be near your router. Other than that
it
is a great idea

Wifi for high resolution streamed video sucks. All by itself with perfect
conditions and no other wifi devices and it barely works. Add another
device that's also doing bulk transfers and streaming starts breaking down.

Mike Brown wrote:
I've had Slingbox for a couple weeks now and love it for what I use it for.
Very easy to set up. For me, it's a convenient way to do two things:

-wireless way to get my DirecTivo on my upstairs pc.
-remote DirecTivo at work (beware you do have to be running on XP)

I'm about 8 miles from home to work, and the resolution looks as good as it
does at home (not superb, but not awful).

Two more big tests coming up are trying it on my laptop when I travel to
Ohio next week (I'm in California) and then Ireland the next. It's just
kind of a gee whiz kind of thing that I would be able to control my Tivo, or
other box from Ireland. Home away from home.

Thanks for the real-world review, Mike!

Randy S.

"wkearney99" wrote in message
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the major problem with it is you need to connect it to your router via
ethernet, not Wifi, so your TV must be near your router. Other than that
it is a great idea

Wifi for high resolution streamed video sucks. All by itself with perfect
conditions and no other wifi devices and it barely works. Add another
device that's also doing bulk transfers and streaming starts breaking down.

The Slingbox device is compressing the video to a much lower bit rate than it
exists on the Tivo (it is also using more sophisticated compression, so it can
do more with less bandwidth, but it's compressing it much more than an
equivalent quality level). It has to use a much lower bitrate, otherwise it
wouldn't be streamable from a DSL or Cable connection (which typically have
outgoing rates in the neighborhood of 256 Kb/s).

Wifi is easily capable of sustaining rates that can saturate a typical
DSL/Cable connection.

Ken