Never enough time… SlingBox launched in Sweden, resold by sat provider. (Sling Media) Fox further fragments industry with movie downloads. (PVRWire) No winners predicted in HD DVD, Blu-ray battle. (Yahoo) MeeVee lands $8 million investment. (TechCrunch)
Slingbox, TiVo, X Games
SlingPlayer 1.3 has been released. As with the beta software, you’ll get sexy new skins, a conflict manager, higher LAN throughput and resolution, and several other goodies. If you run Applian’s At-Large-Recorder, you’ll probably want to skip the firmware portion of the upgrade. Go get the details and the download here.
Never enough time… Pay Circuit City to bypass the DMCA for you. (Davis Freeberg) HAVA place-shifting boxes now shipping. (Press Release) Hands-on with the new Archos 604 PMP. (T3) Fellow consumer charts Netflix shipping patterns. (Hacking Netflix)
If the BBB can rate these guys, why not me? I’m a stickler for good service — I won’t patronize companies providing inferior service. When I had a billing problem with Sprint about 5 years ago and the phone rep called me a liar, I switched to VoiceStream (Jamie Lee Curtis had nothing to do … Read more
I guess this means the Mac SlingPlayer is real! When does Hava‘s Mac Beta begin? ;) Sling VP Jeremy Toeman says: I am letting y’all know that the email just went out to the first wave testers. We will have at least 4 ‘waves’ of testers, and each wave gets almost exponentially larger.
The Sling folks are simultaneously expanding and consolidating their beta programs. As with TiVo’s betas, Sling is now recruiting a pool of applicants to be called up as needed. You can apply here. VP Jeremy Toeman says: So, if you like the Slingbox and want to get your hands a bit dirty with us on … Read more
The place-shifting universe expands next week with the introduction of HAVA, a Slingbox-like hardware device. I rang up Mark Rouchonik, a Director at Monsoon Multimedia, for the details. Mark tells me the major distinction between their device and the Slingbox are LAN multicasting and WiFi features. Multicast doesn’t do a whole lot for me as … Read more