Slingbox

by **Mr. Slayer** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:30 pm

First seen at the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, the silver box that resembles a candy bar hooks up to your television and redirects, or "placeshifts", a single live TV stream from a cable box, satellite receiver, or digital video recorder and blasts it out to a Windows XP-based PC located anywhere in the home.

http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5772466.html?tag=ubind.bld

I want one!!!!

by **JimmyTango** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:34 pm

More cool accessories for the idiot box!

I will tell you the greatest thing ever invented in the entire history of mankind is Netflix.

Yup.

That and aloe lotion on toilet paper. I came up with that in college BTW, well before it was ever on the market. Should have gotten the patent.

by **Namloot** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:35 pm

Cool.

by **Mugzy** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:05 pm

Hmm.. Somehow I think the tv executives are gona come down hard on this one.

by **Dave_destroyer** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:04 pm

Thats pretty cool

by **Chacal** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:16 pm

Beats me why anyone would want that.
Oh, and "placeshift"? What happened to old "send to"?

by **Mr. Slayer** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:25 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
Beats me why anyone would want that.
Oh, and "placeshift"? What happened to old "send to"?

So that if you are on a business trip to China, all the way across the globe, you can just have your wife send you whatever channel you want!

If the Slingbox is coupled with a broadband Internet connection, the company claims the viewer's live TV stream can be "placeshifted" via the Internet to a PC located anywhere in the world.

by **SavageParrot** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:51 am

You need never miss Oprah again eh...

by **LordShard** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:27 pm

Booo Oprah

by **cavalierlwt** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:38 pm

Or, if you're at work, you can log in, change the channels, and watch TV.
You can do this with a PC running windows or linux, you would need a TV tuner card and an IR blaster to change the channels though. Windows Media Encoder 9 will stream live video, Real Media Server will do it (there's a free version) and for linux Apple-Darwin makes a free live video server used in conjunction with two other programs. Those with ATI All in Wonders should be able to do it without adding anything to their computer, and you can always set your cable box (some of them) to go to a certain channel at a certain time.

by **LordShard** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:56 pm

Originally posted by cavalierlwt
Or, if you're at work, you can log in, change the channels, and watch TV.
You can do this with a PC running windows or linux, you would need a TV tuner card and an IR blaster to change the channels though. Windows Media Encoder 9 will stream live video, Real Media Server will do it (there's a free version) and for linux Apple-Darwin makes a free live video server used in conjunction with two other programs. Those with ATI All in Wonders should be able to do it without adding anything to their computer, and you can always set your cable box (some of them) to go to a certain channel at a certain time.

Yeah but you can't time the comercial breaks, they always change.

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:51 am

Well, if you're watching TV at work (which is what I would do if I ever set this up) those commercial breaks would be used to run, take a piss, maybe stop at the cafeteria on my way back to grab another soda or coffee

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