http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/ Engadget Comments for Slingbox PRO hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Feb 20th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com]]>Mar 31st 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
Excluding that (I'll mentally raise the price to $300), it's a pretty nifty box. What I don't understand is whether it can output to a TV in HD - it doesn't look like it, but I'm just trying to be sure. Also, does it have one tuner or two?]]>Oct 10th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
What do you mean by this? The whole point is that it can use the higher quality signal outputted by the component video source on an HD box.]]>Oct 10th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
They blew it, again. They should learn to not promise things they can't deliver.
]]>Oct 10th 2006 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/I travel alot and don't want a PC running 24/& at my place, and having to pay for storage and whatnot.

Sling, I like your service, now please make it work without me even needing a PC at home and not even needing Cable reception at my place.

Oh, and make sure I can get HBO too.]]>Oct 10th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
I like what you offer, but if I didn't need any equipment at all to make it work, that would be ideal. Telepathy]]>Oct 10th 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 11th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
Yet I am still convinced that there an unnecessary middle-stage in the process, which is your house.
I just wish a service company would offer direct feeds without the need for hardware like this (although I do realize that this has value for many people).

What I had in mind would also benefit expats...]]>Oct 10th 2006 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
Take Luck!]]>Oct 10th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
In case anybody still doesn't get it, this DOES NOT sling HD, as in 720p or 1080i/p, anywhere. It just takes over the job of downconverting it to 480p max. The best you can hope for is viewing a HD program over LAN in 720x480 with better quality than SD on your TV. I can already sling my HD channels with the old SB and it's broadband speed (at home and at the remote location)that determines picture quality over the web.

OG Slingboxes are going for a lot less than I paid. Too bad this version is the reason for the price drop. I just don't understand why they didn't incorporate 802.11g. I have other devices that stream HD(DivX, Xvid and WMV9)over 802.11g just fine.]]>Oct 11th 2006 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 10th 2006 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/HD Dongle is not available yet. Check the Slingmedia.com store in late October.

The use of HDMI is just for a physical connector thing - lots of density for the 10 RCA jack pairs on the Component pass-thru. It is "keyed" to not allow an HDMI device as it is not an HDMI interface and could let the smoke out of your SlingBox or the device on the other end. Lets not find out.

IR is discrete for each of the 3 A/V input sources on the Pro. You can put a TiVo on one, XBox 360 on another and the third on an IR controlled Pan/Tilt camera if you wanted to. You will only send the IR commands for the input selected in the Slingplayer software.

Bonus: The HD Dongle comes with a 3-headed IR blaster for the additional source. Feel free to do with you want with the 2-headed monster that comes with the Pro box by default.]]>Oct 11th 2006 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
> What I would really like is for Sling to host
> some of these boxes for me, and provide me with a
> list of channels I can subscibe to (directly to
> their facility).

Unless things have changed, only one person at a time can connect to a Slingbox. So Sling would need to most one box for every simultanous user. How many devices do you think that would require?

]]>Oct 11th 2006 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/pleeeeeeeeease!!! pick me!]]>Oct 13th 2006 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 12th 2006 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/If my old linux box (now living in a gutted NeXT cube!) plays nice, she might get a taste too!

As for a phone? Probably my w800, I'm trying retire this treo!]]>Oct 13th 2006 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
Finally would be able to watch what I'm paying for!]]>Oct 13th 2006 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 13th 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/Oct 14th 2006 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/slingbox-pro-hands-on-plus-av-and-tuner/
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