A possible new way to watch the Fins

[PhinPhreak]

A Silicon Valley start-up company called Sling Media is introducing a $250 gadget it calls a "personal broadcaster." This small device, named the Slingbox, can beam any live TV show coming into your home to an Internet-connected Windows PC anywhere in the world. It also allows you to remotely watch shows you have recorded at home on a TiVo or other digital video recorder.

The Slingbox gives you full control of your home TV and digital recorder even if you are thousands of miles away. You can change channels, use the program guide, and perform any action on the menus of your TV or recorder just as if you were sitting in front of your set. The home TV doesn't even have to be on at the time.

And, best of all, the Slingbox is just a piece of hardware, not a service. It is a small silver box that simply sits between your cable or satellite receiver and your home broadband Internet connection and pumps your TV programs out via the Internet. It doesn't require a TiVo, and it works with a standard Windows PC.

There are no periodic fees to pay, no membership is required and no advertisements are beamed at you other than the normal commercials that appear in the TV programs. All you shell out is the $250 for the device itself. Starting today, it will be available at CompUSA and Best Buy stores, and at those companies' Web sites.

 

[AZfinfan]

thats pretty cool, I love the idea of having no re occuring charges.

 

[PhinPhreak]

thats pretty cool, I love the idea of having no re occuring charges.

Yep, great for anybody who can't get the Fins and has family in a Fins viewing area.

 

[Motion]

Yep, great for anybody who can't get the Fins and has family in a Fins viewing area.

Yeah but thats just it. You would have to know someone that regularly gets Fins games and that would be willing to hook it up.

 

[Mike13]

cool.

 

[GreenMonster]

Yep, great for anybody who can't get the Fins and has family in a Fins viewing area.

Or Fellow Fin Fans that could hook up a brother in the ATL without a sat. dish.. I don't mind going to the bar, but I hate not being able to watch ever play and yell at players that **** up.. False Start TE Lee, "You SOB, stay still"...

 

[PhinKev]

The upload rates are going to be limited, there wouldn't be enough bandwith for multiple viewers. Cool idea though.

 

[MDFINFAN]

The upload rates are going to be limited, there wouldn't be enough bandwith for multiple viewers. Cool idea though.

Well if the person who's willing to share place a booster for bandwidth between his pc and the boardband...like they do in large offices.. :D

If people on this board really want to make it happen they could help buy the equipment ..small invest, 250 for the box, plus the cost of a booster..it could work..

 

[FinsNYanksFan13]

I actually watched like 2 Dolphins games through a fellow finheaveners web cam and it worked out great. Anyone who has web cam should look into doing this for us fin fans who don't get the games this season lol!

 

[Roman529]

So would it be able to pick up the NFL Sunday ticket on DirectTV???? That might be worth the $250. :)

 

[msg]

thats some cool stuff, I wonder what the quality looks like and how much bandwidth is required

 

[DOLPHAN1]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7250299&type=product&id=1115366460216

here it is...

 

[DOLPHAN1]

So would it be able to pick up the NFL Sunday ticket on DirectTV???? That might be worth the $250. :)

it would pickup whatever programing is subscribed to at the source. so, yes.

 

[SirDrums]

i can see the law suit already....

 

[CrunchTime]

I was reading about and it seems as good solution for people who are travelling but its not a solution for those who have no access to games as it only applies to one remote
connection.In other words it will not help to distribute.

They say necessity is the mother of invention so I imagine that new applications will be found.