Sling Media Inc.

Get the most popular stories and breaking news directly in your Twitter feed Follow @Gizmodo What price the luxury of watching Friends re-runs on your Android tablet? If you ask Sling Media, it's $30, which is what they're charging for the SlingPlayer app. Compatible with Honeycomb (and likely upcoming versions too), you must have a Slingbox to actually, y'know, sling TV shows to your tablet. [Android via TechCrunch] Read More

Worth Reading? 0 [2 votes] Slingbox has updated it’s popular SlingPlayer for Android app and added a high quality video mode for those who love to watch their TV on the go. In addition, the new update fixes a connectivity issue that some T-Mobile and Motorola Atrix users have been frustrated with. And users can now enjoy a full screen mode when on composite, s-video and coax inputs. Sling is a really cool technology that marries TV to the Internet and makes it possible to not only stream video, but watch live TV. When connecting over 3G or WiFi to a Slingbox Solo or Pro HD box, the SlingPlayer software can allow users to watch live TV on their Android phone, change channels and even control their DVRs. Adding a high quality video also future proofs the app, which is looking to take advantage of 4G networks and future dual core processors for more serious HD video quality. The only thing stopping them are the arbitrary bandwidth limitations by the wireless providers. But at least WiFi doesn’t stop them. The SlingPlayer app isn’t cheap at $30, but considering the ability to watch your favorite sporting event live wherever you go, it’s a bargain. Check it out in the Android Marketplace. Read More

Dig out your TV component cables if you have the SlingPlayer Mobile app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod -- the latest version of the software now supports high quality mode video out to your television. Version 2.1 of the popular TV-streaming app also includes a few unspecified bug fixes. You'll need at least 800 Kbps of bandwidth over Wi-Fi or 500 Kbps over 3G for it to work on your iPhone 4, or 1200 and 800 respectively on your iPad. There goes the weekend... Read More

The best Android apps of all time are a hard bunch to pick: after all, there’s now an estimated 230,000 different Android apps and games on the Android Market alone to choose from, and that’s not even the only repository for programs that’ll run on Google’s mobile OS. But pick them we did, and you can see them – and download them – right from our epic guide right here. Grab your Android phone, make a cuppa and read on for the best Android apps of all time: Top 100. There’s no statistical procedure for making the cut: these our simply the 100 best Android apps as decided by Electricpig’s staff, who live and breathe Android. These are the ones we use day in, day out, and have earned a vital place on our Android phones’ all too limited internal storage. We’ve not included core Google apps that come preloaded, like Gmail, Voice Search, Google Maps and Navigation, or others that come pre-installed in supported phones like Adobe Flash 10.1. If you’ve got an Android phone, you’ll already have these, and you’ll already know they’re awesome. Likewise, we’ve only included Android apps that are available in the UK – so no Google Voice for now. For download links, we’ve not provided QR codes, but instead linked through to AppBrain wherever possible: that way, whether you’re on PC, tablet or Android phone, you can click through to a central hub page where you can see reviews, pricing, direct Android Market link and QR codes. Where an Android app isn’t sold through the Market, we’ve linked to the developer’s download page so you can buy it just as easily. But enough talk: read on and see the best Android apps of all time! In network speak, “unlimited” data rarely means unlimited – you’ve almost certainly got a cap for your downloads, be it 500MB, 1GB or 3GB. Just pop this in and 3G Watchdog tracks how much you’ve slurped each month so you know when to cut back on the keyboard cat clips on YouTube. You can see at a glance just by pulling down the notification bar, making it incredibly convenient. Look. This game is not original. This is a Doodle Jump rip off. The cow couldn’t look more fraudulent than if he was wearing a pair of Kevin Kline undies. But it is free, and Doodle Jump for Android is not. Read More

Posted 01/31/2011 at 11:48am | by Zack Stern Get your actual living-room shows anywhere; SlingPlayer Mobile presents content from your personal TiVo, cable-tuner, and other devices online. The iPhone and iPad apps connect to your Slingbox hardware ($179-$299), streaming home content anywhere, even over the 3G network. The process looks terrific on a local network; stream to the kitchen, bedroom, or bathroom. (Yeah, we went there.) Quality outside your house depends on your Internet connections, especially your home upstream. In slower situations, the audio gets fuzzy, but remains understandable, while the picture splashes on like a rushed sketch. Fast-paced sports suffer, but paced, dramatic shows lose little. The bottom line. Since everything looks great when functional, we can overlook setup problems, showing the same-resolution picture on the iPhone 4, and how Sling offers two apps instead of a universal purchase. Product  Company  Sling Media Contact  Price  $29.99 each Requirements  iOS 4.1 or later. iPad version requires iOS 4.2 or later. Positives  Stream and control living-room video devices. Great quality on a home network. Good quality, depending on speed, outside your home. Negatives  iPhone 4 Retina support is for UI, not image detail. Not a universal app. Initial setup difficulties. Oldest Sling hardware isn’t supported. Score Tags: Read More

Sling Media has roll-out what appears to be a welcomed update for the SlingPlayer Mobile app on the iPhone. The app is now sitting at version 2.0 and noted as having additional features to include High Quality (HQ) video streaming, though in order to take advantage you will need to be on a Wi-Fi connection of at least 800kbps or a 3G connection of at least 500kbps. In addition to the better video, SlingPlayer Mobile users on the iPhone can also expect to find the new guide (the one that the iPad users have). With that, the update will still work with both the Slingbox SOLO and/or Slingbox Pro-HD models however you will need to update the software on the box in addition to the app on your phone before you will be able to connect (for more details on that, hit the ‘download’ link below). Read More

Posted 12/14/2010 at 5:33am | by J.R. Bookwalter Sure, the folks at Sling finally have an iPad version of SlingPlayer Mobile waiting in the App Store to gobble up your $29.99, but that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten their original iPhone version, which has just hit version 2.0. Engadget is reporting that SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 is now available in the App Store, bringing High Quality (HQ) streaming and a new program guide to the table for new and existing users alike. “To stream in High Quality (HQ) mode outside your home, you need at least 800 kbps of bandwidth from your Slingbox to your iPhone when using a Wi-Fi connection, and at least 500 kbps with a 3G connection,” the 2.0 update notes read. “If you don't have enough bandwidth for HQ mode, you can improve your viewing experience by pressing the SQ button to stream in Standard Quality.” The good news for existing Slingbox owners is that the update doesn’t leave owners of older hardware completely in the cold -- Slingbox Classic, Tuner, AV and PRO users can still stream with the new update, but they won’t get the HQ video mode. Thankfully, everyone gets the new program guide, which you can see a glimpse of in the screenshot above. First-time owners of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone 2.0 will have to fork over $29.99 to have all of this goodness, but as always, updates for existing users are free. The new version is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (though iPad users would do better to shell out another $29.99 for the optimized iPad version) and requires iOS 4.1 or later. Tags: Read More

By – Want to watch live TV on your iPad? Well, if you have a Slingbox, the SlingPlayer App is now available. It lets you connect your iPad to your Slingbox over wifi or 3G and view content on your device as well as control Slingbox. Here is some info from the product’s App Store page: When connected over 3G or Wi-Fi to a Slingbox SOLO or PRO-HD (Slingboxes* sold separately), you can play anything you can see on your home TV on your iPad. View and control video sources such as: -Cable set-top box and DVR -Satellite set-top box and DVR -Telco / IPTV set-top box and DVR -Basic Cable -Digital Over-the-Air broadcasts (Slingbox Pro-HD only) -Tivo -Apple TV -Home security cameras Know two things: 1) This app is not universal so it’s 30 bucks for the iPad and 30 bucks for the iPhone B) it only works on current models. Please do yourself a favor and check compatibility before shelling out the $30 bucks. Related Posts Read More

Sling Media has posted a preview video of their upcoming iPad app, and you can watch it in action right after the break below. It looks pretty darn good -- the app of course allows you to stream everything that comes from your Slingbox DVR device, including live TV, DVR'd content, or any on-demand offerings you might happen to have. The iPad app uses Apple's own H.264 codec, so while this is just a video demonstration, presumably the real thing will look just as good. Unfortunately, this won't be the cheapest option -- the app isn't universal at all, so you'll have to pay another $30 on top of the $30 you may have already paid for the iPhone version. And that's after you buy and install a Slingbox in the first place, which itself requires yet another television subscription to actually deliver the content. Compared to a more subscription-based service like Netflix or Hulu, that's pretty pricey, though of course this setup can do things those can't. At any rate, if you're already hooked up to a Slingbox somewhere, $30 is cheap to get that content anywhere on the iPad. The app should be out soon. [via Engadget] Read More

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