National Hockey Leauge: âHaving the most tech-savvy fans of all major professional sports, who also tend to be early adopters of new technology, makes offering NHL content through Clip+Sling a natural fit,â? said Keith Ritter, President, NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises. âThis partnership expands the visibility of our NHL games online and we are excited and proud … Read more
The TiVo Rewards loyalty program has lowered the “price” of the Series3 to 75,000 points. It was originally introduced as at 85,000 points. According to a quick scan of Amazon and Best Buy, the retail price of the Series3 remains $799… though Amazon has priced it under $610. Given these drops and rumor of a … Read more
Mark Cuban, YouTube, TiVo, and Sling Media hit the Hill yesterday, chatting up the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee. Congress gets earful on net neutrality, CableCARD, YouTube: Ars Technica Congressman-Cam Debuts on YouTube: NewTeeVee Hill-icon Valley: Washington Post
I’ve gotten a lot of questions on how the Slingbox compliments Apple TV. Being a Sling Media employee, I helped put together a short video from one of our labs. We demonstrate using a Slingbox PRO and HD Connect to placeshift Apple TV iTunes content to a Sprint Motorola Q and Windows laptop. Our new … Read more
As you may have read yesterday, Sling Media (my employer) released SlingPlayer for Mac 1.0. The beta version of this software has been available for several months — And since launch we’ve beefed up our staff with several former Apple employees, served up over 80,000 downloads (of .145), and squashed hundreds of bugs. Feedback from … Read more
I just received word that Woot is blowing out refurbished Slingbox Classics for a low $70. As with all Woot deals, this is one day only and while supplies last. To answer the obvious question: A primary difference between the Classic and the current lineup is resolution. The new boxes broadcast at higher resolutions up … Read more
Do I have a great job or what? Last month I hit CTIA in Orlando, and now here I am at NAB. Blake (aka Sling founder/CEO) is giving the portable media keynote tomorrow and I’ll be manning our booth at Piero’s in the evening. So if you’re in Vegas… drop on by, say hello, maybe … Read more
In case you didn’t catch the news yesterday, CBS is expanding their online video presence. Instead of funneling folks onto a single video site, they’re taking a different approach by providing CBS content to a variety of online destinations. We at Sling Media (my employer) are psyched to expand our relationship with CBS (see Clip+Sling) … Read more