Tag Archive for 'slingbox'


Thursday, Oct 9th 2008 by Chris Davies

Sling Media’s SlingCatcher has only been officially shipping since this morning, but already Sling Community have their review posted.  The SlingCatcher works a little like a SlingBox in reverse, displaying content either from one of the company’s own streamers, from a computer running the supplied SlingProjector software, or from an attached storage device.  The review [...]

Tuesday, Oct 7th 2008 by Chris Davies

The SlingCatcher is a slight tweak in direction for Sling Media; unlike their SlingBox media streamers, whose purpose is to take what TV content you receive (whether cable, satellite or over-the-air) and funnel it out to you while you travel, the SlingCatcher gobbles up streamed content (from a SlingBox or from any number of online [...]

Sunday, Sep 28th 2008 by Chris Davies

Netbooks made their typical strong showing this week, with ASUS announcing their intention to put 3G HSUPA into the Eee PC 901.  Meanwhile their N10 was reviewed and deemed the first netbook “suitable for serious gaming“, a promising title indeed.  Lenovo’s S10 also hit reviewers’ benches, making a strong - if at times warm - [...]

Thursday, Sep 25th 2008 by Chris Davies

Sling Media’s Slingbox PRO-HD begins shipping today, offering high-definition 1080i place-shifted content.  The $300 box has multiple inputs for a variety of sources, together with integrated ATSC and clear QAM tuners, and also supports standard-definition content.  As for how well it works, the first reviews are already out and the consensus is glowing.

Sunday, Sep 14th 2008 by Chris Davies

Two significant events on the tech calendar this week, with both CTIA Wireless and Apple’s fall iPod launch hitting sunny San Francisco.  SlashGear has been at both, and huge numbers of you joined us on Tuesday morning for our by-now traditional Live Blog of Steve Jobs’ slick new PMPs.  Make sure to check out our [...]


Wednesday, Sep 10th 2008 by Daniel Lim

Announced early this year in CES 2008, the long awaited SlingCatcher and Slingbox Pro-HD are finally available now for pre-orders at Amazon and Slingmedia store. The Slingbox Pro-HD allows 1080i HD content streaming to your computers, household HDTVs, and 3G or WiFi connected smartphones. It’s $100 less than what we reported earlier.

Monday, May 19th 2008 by Chris Davies

Dish Network have announced their latest set-top box, the 722s High Definition PVR, which features the company’s collaboration with Sling Technologies.  The 722s basically includes a Slingbox media streamer and a Slingcatcher, to show internet-based video on your HDTV.  There’s also a Yahoo!-branded internet browser and a remote with a touchpad.

Wednesday, May 14th 2008 by Satsuki Then

EchoStar, the company that owns Slingbox will officially announce its latest product next week, the SlingModem, a cable modem with built in Slingbox features. The SlingModem was soft launched in January at CES 2008. SlingModem will not be sold to end user on retail stores, rather it will be sold to cable providers. End users [...]

Thursday, Apr 10th 2008 by James Allan Brady

There was a gentleman who informed Engadget of a notice he received from SlingMedia informing him that the SlingCatcher was not up to Sling Media’s standards. So it has been delayed, Sling didn’t confirm the actual email that was sent, but did sort of confirm that it was going to be delayed citing QA concerns [...]

Friday, Mar 28th 2008 by James Allan Brady

Dave Zatz over at Sling Media said they were definitely one of the first 100k people to download the recent iPhone SDK and that they have been looking at it in an effort to bring SlingPlayer to the iPhone. Sling Media has been looking for a way to get their coveted software on the iPhone [...]


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