Sling Streams iTunes Content To TV

Vitamin_Boy writes "Sling has a new product out, the 'SlingCatcher.' It sends video from the PC to the TV and does it for $200. Oh, and it works with iTunes. Will this undercut Apple's iTV? The Ars Technica article thinks it might: 'The SlingCatcher... is media-agnostic. It doesn't care what codec videos are encoded with, nor whether or not they have been purchased from an approved online store. It is designed to take video output and stream it, which means that you could use the SlingCatcher with video purchased from other online services, such as the iTunes Store or CinemaNow. In this way, the SlingCatcher may turn out to be a one-size-fits-all solution in a field populated with specialty products.'"

Comments

Re:TV-out anyone?

[teslar]

And therin lies the essential, and elegant, difference.

Because now you can tell how many P2P thingies your kids are running by measuring the framerate of your HD video? :)

Re:Or you could.. you know..

[aussie_a]

Really? I went to my local electronics retailer and he had none available for about £30.

Re:How is this better than....

[Ray Radlein]

Well, that'll teach you, then.

In fact, it did.

Go and pay iTunes for its stuff if it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, and then download it via bittorrent, so you have a clean copy that you can actually use.

There are some people who might allege that I did exactly that. I, of course, have no comment as to the veracity of such hypothetical allegations.

Perhaps it's a deist?

[porkchop_d_clown]

Media exists, but it doesn't care what happens to the SlingCatcher.