DVRplayground - Placeshifting (Slingbox, Hava, etc)

Dish Network Purchases Sling Media

Community Headlines — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:22:13 GMT

This just in from the "out of left field" department... It was only a short time ago that Sling Media publicly revealed they have been working with DirecTV on their new SuperCast NFL service, only to announce today that EchoStar Communications (owner and operator of the other major US satellite TV provider) has just acquired the company for roughly $380 million dollars. Sling Media just announced that EchoStar Communications has struck a deal to acquire them for cash and stock options valued around $380 million combined. If you don’t know who EchoStar is, they own DISH Network®. DISH Network® offers a premier line of industry-leading Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and hundreds of video and audio channels as well as the most national HD and International channels in the U.S., Interactive TV, Latino and sports programming. DISH Network also provides a variety of package and price options including the lowest all-digital price in America and the DishDVR Advantage Package. Continue reading at SlingCommunity News | Post a comment

Have Slingbox, Will Travel

Naomi — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:23:34 GMT

When you travel, you can't take your big-screen TV on the road, and most of the time you can't drag your couch with you either. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to miss all of your favorite programs. Even though you can’t take your TV, Sling Media's Slingbox lets you take your TV shows. With the Slingbox and a laptop, you can watch anything you'd watch on your TV at home. And you can do it anywhere in the world as long as you have a broadband Internet connection. How Portable is This Thing? There’s no need to drag it along; the Slingbox itself stays at your home. On the road, you take your laptop to a broadband hot spot (your hotel's wireless access should do nicely), connect to your Slingbox over the internet, and then stream your TV shows to your laptop. If bringing your laptop sounds like too much trouble, you can even stream your TV programs to a compatible mobile phone or pocket PC. You'll need a software package called SlingPlayer Mobile. The newest gadget to be able to run SlingPlayer Mobile is the Treo 700p smartphone, which uses Palm OS. There are a few people who've...

Netgear's Digital Entertainers

Vicki Schmitz — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:36:03 GMT

Anyone have one of these? My brother-in-law has one (he also has a TiVo), and he loves it! It plays all kinds of media, including iTunes and BitTorrent stuff. If you don't know what it is, you should check them out. Especially right now. MyDigitalEntertainer.com is having a contest right now, and for the price of taking a short, four question survey, you can win one of FOUR of their kick ass HD units, the EVA8000. Even if you have a DVR it doesn't matter; the EVA streams content from your PC to your TV. Why not have both?

One Slingbox two Direct HR20

Jerry Pete — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:05:10 GMT

This is my problem: I have two HR20. I can use the same remote to control both. I just have to switch the device slider to AV1 to control the second.ÃÂ I am able to control the HR20 that is set to the default code. However, the second one which has been modified to use the AV1 setting, cannot be controlled. I have tried the following alternate codes: 00002, 00003, 1377, 1379, 1380 As my presence here suggests, none of the codes work.ÃÂ Please can anyone help me with my problem? I would greatly appreciate any help I can get. Jerry

Impressions of a dual slinger... or why you really need two placeshifters

Doug Felteau — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:37:52 GMT

Recently I just added a Slingbox and a Slingbox Pro to my gear. The Slingbox Pro I hooked to our main DirecTiVo system and the Slingbox is currently hooked in a guest room (while I play around with another DirecTiVo). Thank goodness I had two Slingboxes hooked up or I would've missed NFL last weekend when I was out of town working and my wife was on our main TV. What are your experiences of dual slinging?

sling+tivo

nloft — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:49:44 GMT

i will watch in bangkok,sling is in usa.i need to know could i tranfered the show that i taped in tivo to my laptop dvd in bangkok. tuvo have this togo service.if i can tranfered in to dvd it will be great because i can watch in regular dvd on tv. can the taped tivo show be watch in regular dvd.THIS WILL SOLVE THE VARY IN INTERNET SPEED.......... please anyone ............need help ......nfl is about to start................you know the FELLING...................THANK YOU.............. can this be done on regular dvd.i mean copy what you taped on the dvr to my laptop dvd in bangkok.

Archiving Sling Content to a PC and Beyond

Lou Jacob — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:43:39 GMT

I recently had the pleasure of test-driving a Slingbox connected to a network with several DirecTV TiVo systems. It was great to experience how easy the basic setup was and how quickly I could access content already recorded on my TiVo systems while sitting at my desk. My ideal scenario is offloading programming to the PC and converting to DIVX so that I can watch programs on my Archos AV500 while mobile. I'll call this "nomadic placeshifting" for lack of a better term - the point is, offline viewing of "slinged" (slung?) content is what I'd like to be able to do. Is anyone familiar with a way to easily capture and convert content served up by the Sling interface? Yes, I am familiar with the 'extraction' methods which involve modification of the TiVo and decryption of media as its recorded - this is a DMCA no-no, however. Using the analog method chosen by Sling, its completely legitimate; but I'm not certain if Sling then encrypts some of the data and/or whether its accessible without causing other problems. Is this a technical issue? A policy issue? Both?

DVRplayground Contest: Win a Date For Your DVR!

Matt Whitlock — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:10:55 GMT

Welcome to the official contest thread for the "Win a Date For Your DVR" DVRplayground contest. To learn about this contest, and how to win a free Slingbox , please review the contest details . We know your DVR is lonely, so it's high time you tried to get it a date! How? Write a personals ad for your DVR! Think of your DVR as your best friend (you know you already do anyway), and try to find it a special someone by telling it's age, interests, hobbies, location, neighbors, etc. For example, a personals ad for my 7-year old Panasonic Showstopper PVHS-2000 would read: They don't make 'em like me anymore! I'm a Distinguished, "Single" tuner DVR from Chicago seeking a placeshifting companion to fill the empty void that is my S-video jack. I'm a well-aged Replay TV unit, 7-years old, and a lovely shade of dark gray. Don't let my age fool you! I know I'm a little older and slower than younger DVRs, but I can still get up and running in 10 seconds flat! I reside in a clean, high-tech neigborhood complete with a big screen TV and surround system, so there's plenty of other folks...