Originally Posted by
GUWonder
That indeed became a concern too, but the alternative would have been if Slingbox had done what it intended to do at the start: provide hardware to customers who would then not have to rely upon the company-provided servers for the hardware to work. At least if they had stuck to their original intention, the customers of the boxes would not have to count on Slingbox staying solvent in order for the devices to work.
Was that really the plan? Seems to go against their whole value-added proposition of making it easy for consumers to use.
Originally Posted by
nmenaker
I would have thought that the purchase by Echostar / Dish would have helped with any of the operating unit cashflow concerns. Integrating the slingbox technology into the DISH hopper devices (and some of the SLING technology for distributed network based DVR and streaming) would have helped keep the need for cash as direct slingbox hardware sales fell off at bay.
To be honest, I had no idea the company was ever sold. I bought my first Slingbox well after that and can't remember ever seeing any mention of Dish/EchoStar.