SlingPlayer coming to iPhone?

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Um, that's a new _version_ of SlingPlayer for WM this spring. Sling
> has had a WinMo version for as long as they've been building
> Slingboxes. (In fact, a freecopy of the WinMo SlingPlayer was an
> "early adopter" bonus, it was free for about 3 or 4 months, then it
> became an extra-cost option.)
>
>

What will it do that free Orb from http://corp.orb.com/ with a compatible
TV card plugged into the cable won't do?

I got GIs in Iraq and Afghanistan watching cable TV from Charleston via ORB
to their military-grade laptops over their wifi links. Works great and
they really enjoy seeing a bit of home. Orb controls the TV cards so Iraq
can select which of the channels to watch off their keyboards.

Give it a try. You don't need to install anything on the mobile. It's a
webserver to html. The html boots the player in several selectable output
video/audio formats. (we use Realplayer on the Nokia tablets.)

Orb has quicktime, so it should play on iPhone if the Safari browser
hobbling can control it. Put Orb into HOME THEATRE mode, which makes the
clickers really big for home theatre interfaces. That should be easy to
finger on iPhone's capacitive screen. I leave it in that mode for the N800
tablet, here, and use 156Kbps on the settable upload bandwidth to make sure
it will work through the Sellphone data. You can even set it lower for the
EDGE network, but it will reduce your resolution and frame rate, of course.

Thank Nokia for buying the company....(c;

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Jer <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> Oh yeah, that's what I reeely want, a postage stamp size TV screen - and
> the transport costs that go with a mobile postage stamp size TV screen.
>
> -

No, that's called MobiTV (Axcess TV on Alltel)(Vcast TV on Verizon)
(something else on T-mobile). If you put on 3 pairs of reading glasses, in
series, you can almost read CNN's crawler on a Z6m screen where it doesn't
support LANDSCAPE MODE, dammit.

25 channels on Alltel is $10/mo + $10 for unlimited data to feed it if you
don't have tethered $25/mo EVDO data service. It isn't worth it to listen
to Fox News' audio feed, which I can get free on the net.

Larry wrote:

> Fox News' audio feed, which I can get free on the net.
>


The Faux feed isn't even worth "free".

News wrote:
>
>
> Larry wrote:
>
>> Fox News' audio feed, which I can get free on the net.
>>
>
>
> The Faux feed isn't even worth "free".


I wouldn't waste a single IP packet on Faux news.

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jer
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At 18 Mar 2008 19:02:09 +0000 Larry wrote:

> What will it do that free Orb from http://corp.orb.com/ with a compatible
> TV card plugged into the cable won't do?
Allow you live access to your satelite receiver or cable box. Orb is great
for your recorded library of media files, but if I'm you're a hotel that
doesn't, for example, offer BBC America, SlingPlayer communicates with the
Slingbox hooked to our cable or DBS setup, lets you select a channel and
shoots it to you live over the interwebs.


> I got GIs in Iraq and Afghanistan watching cable TV from Charleston via
ORB
> to their military-grade laptops over their wifi links. Works great and
> they really enjoy seeing a bit of home. Orb controls the TV cards so
Iraq
> can select which of the channels to watch off their keyboards.


Which is fine if you have a "media PC" setup. Slingbox essentially does
the same thing but without a PC. It's a ~$100 device that hooks to any
cable box or sat receiver.


> Give it a try. You don't need to install anything on the mobile. It's a
> webserver to html. The html boots the player in several selectable
output
> video/audio formats. (we use Realplayer on the Nokia tablets.)
>
> Orb has quicktime, so it should play on iPhone if the Safari browser
> hobbling can control it. Put Orb into HOME THEATRE mode, which makes the
> clickers really big for home theatre interfaces. That should be easy to
> finger on iPhone's capacitive screen. I leave it in that mode for the
N800
> tablet, here, and use 156Kbps on the settable upload bandwidth to make
sure
> it will work through the Sellphone data. You can even set it lower for
the
> EDGE network, but it will reduce your resolution and frame rate, of course.

>
> Thank Nokia for buying the company....(c;

DISH Network bought Sling, so I suspect the Sling software will be
integrated on their next receivers, or perhaps downloaded to their current
models with Ethernet ports.