2007 Sling on TV Archive

Travel & Leisure editors top picks for travelers starts off with Slingbox PRO.

Bill Rancic's pick for this holiday is a Slingbox SOLO.

Features the Slingbox SOLO. Kelly wants one for her husband.

CNET.com picks out the top holiday gifts for gadget-lovers featuring the Slingbox SOLO.

This is truly one of the great revolutionary things of our time. So simply put, I can be in Bangkok and with your gizmo I can plug into and watch Oprah that's on channel 7 in New York.

The Technology Tailor recommends Slingbox SOLO as a great holiday gift.

8.1 out of 10. "An evolutionary upgrade of past Slingbox models, the Slingbox Solo remains an excellent way to stream your home TV programming to an increasingly wide variety of broadband-connected computers and smart phones."

This is the Slingbox. This box hooks up to the internet and to your TV at home. You can control your cable box or DVR from you laptop or your cell phone. Imagine being on the subway and saying "I missed Grey's Anatomy" and being able to watch it right there.

Watching the game from his tablet PC mounted to his kayak, SF Giants fan Larry Ellison waits for a history making home run ball.

If you're watching it on your phone or on your computer in an airport, because you have the wonderful new device - the Slingbox. I would guess that does count though, because you're watching it on FOX.

This chunk of plastic of wires basically can take a video source, like cable tv, and push it online. Turning your internet-connected computer in the hotel room into your home television. You can also do it on your mobile phone.

It's called a Slingbox. It is the coolest, grooviest thing if you are addicted to movies or television or even the news, you'll never miss anything with this.

Some companies have been able to turn what they do into a verb. For TiVo or Google. there's another verb out there. There is a company called Sling Media and slinging is the term used for people sharing TV shows with each other using their device that they make which is Slingbox. As for the controversy that surrounds this company, it basically involves two professional sports leagues. The issue is this. You have one league embracring the new technology while the other has some questions about it.

The NHL San Jose Sharks embrace silicon valley technology for competitive advantage. Behind the bench, coaching staff and players review questionable calls and opposing lineups using a SlingPlayer equipped tablet PC.

Rich DeMuro demonstrates how to configure and broadcast television content from a Slingbox AV to a Motorola Q smartphone.

Sling Media CEO and founder Blake Krikorian testifies before the House Telecom and Internet Subcommittee on the "Future of Video."

Ron Rosberg is watching TV on his television at home. Yes, he is in a park with his pooches, and he's holding a phone. But what is playing in the palm of his hand is actually what's on this television set back home.

CNET News.com's Erica Ogg visits CBS 5 in San Francisco to see how the newsroom is using a Slingbox to get live video feeds for traffic, weather and breaking news instead of relying on standard news vans using satellite signals.

The Clip + Sling, which is in beta testing, aims to make video file uploading and sharing easy. With major backing from media giant CBS, Clip + Sling is expected to be out of the box in Q2 of 2007. Sling Media says it hopes to create a community centered around legal video uploads.