Travel Technology - Sling Media's SlingPlayer Now Available in App Store ($29.99)

Macrumors.com (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/12/sling-medias-slingplayer-now-available-in-app-store/):
"Given all the drama from the circumstances surrounding the SlingPlayer Mobile launch, we felt it newsworthy to post about the availability of Sling Media's app.

SlingPlayer Mobile is now available [iTunes link] (http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects %2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewSoftware%3Fid%3D30928060 5%26mt%3D8&t=1242208804) in the App Store. The $29.99 application allows you to watch and control your home TV and DVR from your iPhone and iPod touch. This is accomplished though the use of one of SlingMedia's media devices. Unfortunately, due to concerns about network congestion, the application will only stream video over Wi-Fi connections and does not support 3G or EDGE."

Well, it's a almost 100% redundant because whenever I have a wifi connnection, I should be able to logon with my notebook but that aside...

I like the app. Navigation a bit slow but I'm pleased with the video quality. I'm sure your upstream is the limiting factor here as has always been the case with Slingbox.

$30 creature comfort I guess. Hopefully they will open up 3G streaming at some point.

I also really liked the DVR remote app that I downloaded last night. I took the lite version for free. Will get full version as soon as Apple approves the bug fixes for the now playing list and youtube search. Just don't see the point of downloading the full version 2.0 with these bugs. Easy setup, iphone is now a Tivo remote. Lite version limits on pause, skip buttons, favorites, etc.

Good luck.

Scho

With no 3G streaming, it's completely worthless to me.

Slingplayer over 3G hack:

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/05/13/slingplayer-3g/

This may be the one that pushes me to doing this. Maybe. With the pathetic battery life, I probably wouldn't do a whole lot of SlingPlayer watching while not plugged in anyway.

I like the app. Navigation a bit slow but I'm pleased with the video quality. I'm sure your upstream is the limiting factor here as has always been the case with Slingbox.

I tried the free trial version over my Blackberry 8900 (no 3G but EDGE+Wifi). It worked on Edge (albeit slow and bad quality) but not over Wifi. What gives?

I bought it for the very few times I travel without my laptop, but I'm actually really impressed with the program - especially the video quality.

With no 3G streaming, it's completely worthless to me.


http://www.assassin711.com/?p=62

I used this method to get Slingplayer to work over 3G - pretty simple.

http://www.assassin711.com/?p=62

I used this method to get Slingplayer to work over 3G - pretty simple.

Except I'm not really interested in jailbreaking my phone. I can do without.