The Slingbox 3G iPhone app hits the iTunes store, and it rocks. How about on-demand access to live TV in your pocket and to whatever you've recorded on your DVR at home for no monthly fee? We know, it's been done on other handsets, but hey, this is big for some of us ...
Sling Media has announced a batch of new gadgets at CES 2010, all of which aim to enhance the experience of place-shifting video. The foursome includes an updated Slingbox to send video anywhere, a receiver that moves video to another location within your house, a flat screen display, and a slick remote control ...
Anyone who has ever wanted to use their TV to flick back and forth between their favourite show and their PC content should take note at this interesting innovation to surface at this weeks CES in Las Vegas. The Icron ExtremeLink PC-on-TV platform. The system features two boxes that hook up to a user’s PC and HDMI television respectively, enabling any TV in the home to act as a wireless monitor to their PC, even if they are at opposite ends of the house ... Tags: CES 2010, HDMI, Monitor, PC,
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Spawn Labs, a startup launching today at TechCrunch50, wants to do for console gaming what the Slingbox did for TV. With their Spawn HD-720 box, users can remotely connect to a console via their laptop ... In other words, if you want to play a game on your console remotely, you can connect to your system by downloading the Spawn Player application on your computer. The box transmits a 720p picture over the connection and allows you to control the game with "an input device of your choosing." The
We're still wrapping our heads around Pioneer's Project ET. It's sort of every piece of media squeezed into one set-top box—with masterful execution ... Project ET, also known as Project ETAP, is due sometime next year for an undisclosed price. The system is essentially a Linux-based networked computer with a 1TB hard drive and Blu-ray player ... OK, so what? Here's a full list of what it can actually do: ... • Play Blu-ray movies ... • Managed Copy (backup) Blu-ray movies ... • Connect
Media streaming is a technology threatening to break into the mainstream in a big way over the next few years. One company who certainly hopes it does is Looqs, a new entity that was showcasing its media streaming wares at IFA 2009. Its MeeSeries Media Streaming system lets users stream multimedia throughout their house - nothing too exciting about that I hear you say. But what sets the Looqs products apart is its ability to stream not only video content to a TV, but also photos and online
Maybe the submissions by Apple, Google and AT&T helped, or maybe they hurt, but the FCC is going to take a closer look at the U.S. cellphone industry and if competition is helping consumers. [Link to FCC announcement in PDF format] ... Today the Commission said: ... As communications technologies and services become more essential, and the communications market more complex, information is key to consumer protection and empowerment. The Commission seeks comment from communications service
Qik [iTunes link] is an eagerly awaited free app for the iPhone. Most other video capable phones have a version of it. Qik allows, among other things, live streaming from your phone to the web. How could someone not want that capability? Early on, Qik offered a version for jailbroken phones that worked quite well ... Well of course, we've learned that what can run on other smartphones may not necessarily make it to the iPhone, and predictably the App Store version has been crippled. You can
As history tells us time and time again, iPhone apps / updates submitted to Apple aren't a sure deal for approval. Still, we can't help but like where SlingPlayer Mobile is going with the recently-submitted version 1.1. In addition to providing true 16:9 widescreen support that stretches across the whole screen, Slingbox owners with DISH Network can now navigate using a touch-supported native browser, instead of pushing through the TV-standard browsing screen being streamed in. That last bit's