Friday, August 20, 2004
Place shifting?
Cool piece over on Gizmodo about an interesting startup product supposedly in the works: The SlingBox personal broadcaster.
Hot diggity that sounds cool! I wonder if it would work with a homemade DVR like the *nix boxes running FreeVo or the like...
¶ 11:28 a.m.
Cool piece over on Gizmodo about an interesting startup product supposedly in the works: The SlingBox personal broadcaster.
The idea is simple: hook up the little $200 box to your TiVo or your cable box and connect it to your home internet. Then, when you're out and about, just pull up the client software on your PDA or laptop. SlingBox's software will detect the quality and throughput of your connection and shoot you our a recompressed, digital stream of whatever analog signal you could be watching at home. It would even work on cellphones, they say, if the bandwidth were there (and it will be Real Soon Now).
Hot diggity that sounds cool! I wonder if it would work with a homemade DVR like the *nix boxes running FreeVo or the like...
¶ 11:28 a.m.
