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Posted by Monty Solomon on November 4, 2007, 1:34 am
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State of the Art
TV Anytime or Place: The Sequel
By DAVID POGUE
The New York Times
November 1, 2007
O.K., it's happened: we're officially old.
When you sheepishly tell your children that you used to have to watch
TV shows by sitting down in a certain place at a certain time - well,
you know you're old.
First came the TiVo and its ilk, eliminating the bit about sitting
down "at a certain time." Then came the Slingbox from Sling Media,
which obliterated the need to be "in a certain place." Later,
SlingPlayer Mobile software for cellphones even wiped out the part
about "sitting down."
Of course, the Slingbox isn't nearly as famous as the TiVo; you may
not even have heard of it. In that case, saying that the new Slingbox
Solo has a lower price ($180) than its predecessors and has built-in
jacks for high-definition gear probably won't mean much to you.
In that case, a primer is in order.
The Slingbox's purpose in life is to transmit whatever is on your TV
to your laptop or smartphone (like a Treo or Windows Mobile phone)
across the Internet. The point, of course, is to allow people who
travel - to another room, another city or another continent - to view
all the channels and recordings that they're already paying so much
money for at home.
It comes in handy when you want to watch TV upstairs, but your fancy
high-definition TiVo is downstairs. It's also great when you're in a
hotel room, bristling at paying $13 for a movie when your video
recorder back home is a veritable Blockbuster. And Slingboxes are
also a blessing when you are overseas and longing for the news, or
the sports broadcasts, of your hometown.
There are a few other ways to perform a similar stunt, but none with
the Slingbox's high video quality, super-simple setup and ability to
display both recordings and live TV.
The new Slingbox Solo is tiny; its trapezoidal shape is meant to
evoke the shape of a gold ingot, and it's now about that size, too (9
by 4 by 2 inches). That's about half the size of its predecessor, the
Slingbox Pro.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/technology/personaltech/01pogue.html?ex=1351569600&en=0726498879100937&ei=5090
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