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Slingbox Comes to the Mac

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slung-like-a-cable-box dept.

Egadfly writes "The Slingbox has arrived for the Mac world. Some long delays during development now seem over. Sling Media has finally released version 1.0 of their software for Mac OSX. This means that, after buying and installing the Slingbox, Mac users can 'sling' their home cable and satellite signals to themselves at the airport, or in a café hotspot, or over their office computers. The article on SlingCommunity.com gives the details of the software's development — from last year's much-discussed beta to today's v1.0. Screenshots show how a standard-looking "TV remote," displayed onscreen, allows the Mac users to change channels or browse Tivo recordings over the Internet, many miles from their living rooms."

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  1. Re:Mac or not, the Slingbox simply rocks! by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No more being a slave to whatever is playing in my hotel room. With a fast connection, I can watch and control my own DirecTV from wherever I happen to be. Either on my laptop, or my Treo, I can watch what I want, when I want. Slingbox ought to hire me, because I help sell a few units everytime I connect up waiting at an airport gate. People cant believe I am watching my own DirecTV on my phone.

    Get one, bitches.

    You're still a TV slave. You're just placeshifting your shackles.

  2. Re:What is it? by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it a unique product users will find interesting, that Sling something? (writing comments so that part of story isn't showing up)


    It's a place-shifting box. Sure, all the Linux-heads can do 100x better with Linux, a capture card, and VLC, and some hacked lirc stuff, but for the rest of us who don't want to leave a PC on all day, it's effectively all that in a little box. Plus your cable TV coax to it (or your composite/svideo/component outputs), plug in the power supply, plug in the Ethernet, and in a few minutes of setup, you're watching your TV on your computer (PC/Mac), phone or PDA.

    The smart ones hook it to their TiVos. There's an IR blaster so you can use the virtual (i.e., onscreen) remote control to control it.

    Can it be done with a regular Windows PC? Yes. Linux? Most definiteiy. But if you want something easy to set up, a Slingbox works.
  3. iphone by Rethcir · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully this is a prelude to compatibility with a certain phone running MacOS..