SlingPlayer Mobile has been released for PocketPC 2003 and Windows Mobile 5 devices with a touch screen. A version for non-touch screen phones should be available within a month. As promised the software was released in Q1, though the current edition is a public beta.
A trial version of SlingPlayer Mobile is available today as a free download from Sling Media’s web site, www.slingmedia.com, as part of the public beta program. Beginning April 26th, SlingPlayer Mobile will be available for $29.99 and includes a free 30-day trial. Slingbox owners who purchase and register their Slingbox prior to April 26th will receive a free license for SlingPlayer Mobile. There are no monthly or recurring charges for the use of the software.
“SlingPlayer Mobile has arrived and we are thrilled to offer this amazing new piece of software to our loyal customer base,” said Blake Krikorian, co-founder and CEO of Sling Media. “SlingPlayer Mobile delivers the complete home TV experience on any compatible Windows Mobile device and works with your existing Slingbox. Best of all, we are making it available for free for a limited time so if you are thinking about becoming a Slingbox owner, now is the perfect time.”
“This is an exciting time for people who want a single mobile device that does more than email,” said Scott Horn, general manager, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft Corp. “While Windows Mobile enables people to stay on top of their job and connected to the people they care about, the platform also supports solutions such as SlingPlayer Mobile that give users the freedom to watch their favorite television content while on-the-go.”
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I think if the SlingPlayer had a Tivo functionality also (for recording your shows and watching them remotely), I would get one in a second. Live TV is nice sometimes, but other times you want to timeshift also.
I think if the SlingPlayer had a Tivo functionality also (for recording your shows and watching them remotely), I would get one in a second. Live TV is nice sometimes, but other times you want to timeshift also.
If only microsoft made a windows media center client for the pocketpc...
I think if the SlingPlayer had a Tivo functionality also (for recording your shows and watching them remotely), I would get one in a second. Live TV is nice sometimes, but other times you want to timeshift also.
i thought you could play DVR and Tivo recorded shows via slingbox...is that wrong?
You can. I have my Slingbox connected to my DirecTV/TiVo box, so I can play anything recorded on the TiVo, set up recordings, etc. Using the remote, you have complete control of the TiVo and can do anything you could while sitting in front of it.
I am one of the people who has been testing this for a couple of months now, and it works fine on my x50V with WM2005.
You can. I have my Slingbox connected to my DirecTV/TiVo box, so I can play anything recorded on the TiVo, set up recordings, etc. Using the remote, you have complete control of the TiVo and can do anything you could while sitting in front of it.
I am one of the people who has been testing this for a couple of months now, and it works fine on my x50V with WM2005.
How can it do that? Would you be able to do that with a PVR provided by a cable company? I thought this thing had its own built-in tuner so I can't see how you can control a Tivo or a PVR from it. If you connect a PVR's output, to this thing's input, you wouldn't be able to use the slingbox's tuner because you would only be receiving one channel (i.e. you 'd have to tune in to ch.3 to receive the one channel from the PVR).
It has composite and s-video inputs, not just a tuner. It can take and encode any standard video signal. You could hook it up to a DVD changer if you wanted to, for example. It also has a built-in universal remote. You put the IR emitters from the Slingbox in front of the device to be controlled and you can send it any instructions you normally would from your standard remote from the client. I can literally use, control, and watch my TiVo like I was in the same room using the real remote (except for the network lag, of course). As far as my TiVo knows, I am in the room with the remote. The composite video out from the TiVo is hooked up to the Slingbox, which encodes it and sends it to the client. I see the same thing I would if I hooked to video out to a TV instead of the Slingbox.
They likely have the remote codes for your cable DVR (they have the major ones) already in the box, so yes you would be able to watch and control it just like at home. There are people doing just that.
Is there a demo feed that I can connect to with the Sling client to see what the quality will be like on the Axim? Or do you have to have a SLING already to do this. I think it is a great idea, especially when you combine it with a TIVO as mentioned above. I would think it is a little more then a novelity if you do not have a TIVO type device to do the time shifting with though.
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