The coolest technology I’ve seen for a while
I heard about slingmedia a few months back and to be honest it sounded a bit too good to be true. Basically, here’s what it does. You get this little box and connect one end to your broadband connection and into the other end you feed in a television signal from a source like a freeview digi-box. The slingmedia technology then allows you to log into the box from anywhere in the world using some software installed on your laptop. You can then stream that television signal over the internet directly to your laptop, and watch your TV signal from wherever you are as long as you have a good, fast connection and the upload speed from the slingmedia box is pretty good too. Only one user can login to the slingmedia box at any one time, so you couldn’t, for instance, install Sky TV and then sell access to it to your mates through their laptops (even if you could get round the bandwidth issues).
Sarah’s brother has been using it from Austria for a while while he was here this weekend he’s set Sarah up with the ability to watch UK television live on her laptop from here in France. I’ve seen it working and it DOES work. It’s amazing. It can’t help you with the fact that there’s bugger all on TV worth watching of course….. but I did find myself watch Hugh Fernley-Wosshisname on More 4 late last night.
here’s the blurb from the company itself….
“Slingbox is a compact and elegantly designed, state-of-the-art electronic device that connects to the back of your TV. It redirects, or “placeshifts” the TV signal from your cable box, satellite receiver, or personal video recorder (PVR) to your computer or laptop of choice, no matter your location - so long as you have a high-speed Internet connection. This utterly unique device will transform the way you watch TV. Whether you want to watch your soaps in the shower room, or catch the big game during a conference call, or watch your local news from China, the power is now in your hands.”
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I have seen this around for a while but never really seen where it would be that handy. But for you this sounds great, you can watch UK TV from over there no probs.
I may get my dad one so I can steal his Sky sports