Slingbox TV is a TV streaming device produced by Sling Media of San Mateo, California. A Slingbox lets you watch and control your home's cable, satellite, personal video recorder or DVD player from the Internet. more »
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Slingbox TV is a TV streaming device produced by Sling Media of San Mateo, California. A Slingbox lets you watch and control your home's cable, satellite, personal video recorder or DVD player from the Internet. more »
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The Slingbox is a TV streaming device that enables users to remotely view their homes cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from an Internet-enabled computer with a broadband Internet connection. It is produced by Sling Media of Foster City, California.
Operation
A Slingbox can redirect one of its inputs to a single computer located on a local network or remotely, when using a broadband Internet connection, anywhere in the world. To avoid copyright infringement, only one user can access the stream from a Slingbox at a time. This way of accessing content is known as placeshifting.
A Slingbox connects a TV source (via coaxial cable, composite cables, component cables, or S-video cable) to an existing Internet connection. Digital video recorders and cable or satellite set top boxes can be controlled through a separate infrared (IR) cable that lets users change channels from the remote location. Software on a users computer or mobile device connects to the Slingbox and provides the user interface for viewing the video stream and changing channels. Onscreen virtual remote controls are provided for controlling almost all connected devices. Note that all control inputs are done in the SlingPlayer window via computer mouse. There is no provision for use of hardware IR remote control units while watching SlingPlayer even if the PC has an IR receiver.
SlingPlayer software
The Slingbox utilizes Sling Medias proprietary SlingPlayer to display audio and video on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X, and selected mobile devices. SlingPlayer is not available for Linux, BSD or other open source systems. While old versions of SlingPlayer ran under old versions of Wine, there is presently no way to run SlingPlayer in Linux using current releases of either. The latest stable SlingPlayer version for Windows is version 2.0.0.465. This version includes a live video buffer to pause, fast-forward, and rewind up to 6 read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox
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