Sunday, February 28, 2010

Sling Media Technologies for satellite TV viewers


Sling Media is a California based technology company has decided to offer its wonderful and technologically superior products to the viewers of satellite TV. Slingbox, the award winning TV streaming device is the flagship product of this company. Several variants of this product have been introduced such as Slingbox Solo, Slingbox 700U and Slingbox PRO-HD.

All the above mentioned Sling Media products are incorporated with a revolutionary new technology called ‘Placeshifting.’ This technology allows the viewer to watch their favorite live or recorded television program on their notebook or mobile device. this means they can watch their preferred TV content even when they are not in their home.

All a user need to do is to connect their Slingbox device to their satellite TV DVR receiver as well as to their home network router. The TV signals from the receiver first enter the Slingbox device and there it gets converted in MPEG 4 format. Then this transcoded signal is then delivered to the router. The router then send this signals to the mobile device via high-speed broadband internet.

To watch the streamed TV content, the user needs to install the SlingPlayer software, which is a proprietary technology of Sling Media. The software can be availed from the respective satellite television service provider and is available on various mobile platforms such as Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone OS and Symbian. User of Microsoft Windows and Apple’s Macintosh can also use this product on their respective notebooks.

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