Video: Slingcatcher in action at CES 2008

Thank goodness you're here -- you're just in time to witness the Slingcatcher doing it's thing in glorious, low-res video. We promise you this: when all the slinging and catching is over, you won't know what hit you.

[jtizzlefurizzle21 @ Jan 6th 2008 11:57PM]

i want it now

[Brandon L @ Jan 7th 2008 12:18AM]

Screw the Slingcatcher... I want some Veronica Belmont! I mean Slingcatcher.

Hello to you sweetheart.

[jtizzlefurizzle21 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:25AM]

wat did you think i was talking about.... that plastic piece of crap

[Jeremy @ Jan 7th 2008 12:54AM]

That guy should have said, "does all this talk about slinging and catching make you randy, baby?"

What a cutie.

[Stevey 1337 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:34AM]

$249? Are you crazy? First your shelling out money for the slingbox which is not that cheap, then slap an additional $249 at the customer if they want to watch it on another TV? Sorry no.

[rafy186 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:49AM]

Then you have to add 30.00 if you want to watch in your mobile device. Nickel and dime people... Still I love my Slingbox.

Havent seened Veronica in a long time... Wow she looks great! I wanna go to CES just to see her.

[skulldriveshaft @ Jan 7th 2008 1:10AM]

for watching your own services in a place that only has high speed internet access very nice.

for the rest of us, didn't Iomega already give us something to use?

http://www.iomega.com/direct/products/family.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=54110787&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=63191&bmUID=1199685935315

Iomega should consider packing in a HDMI port, they already got composite video and coaxial s/pdif audio.

[Yoyodyn @ Jan 7th 2008 1:10AM]

If they still plan to include the SlingStreamer (did I get that name right?) then I can see it being worth $240. It was PC software to allow the catcher to catch streams from your PC. Havent heard that much about it, but if it allows content from your PC over the network and internet then its a pretty good media extender and not just for the sling box.

[jnook @ Jan 7th 2008 8:34AM]

Yah if it can stream video, ISO/IFO's over from a NAS or from your PC then it makes it more worth it. Otherwise $249 is a bit steep, under $200 would have been easier to swallow with no internal storage. Whats the max resolution on this thing, did they say yet? 1080i?

[Bunklung @ Jan 7th 2008 6:57PM]

It's called Sling Projector. It runs on your PC. I wish the video included a demonstration of it.

From the information I can gather, it will stream anything you can play on your PC to your Sling Catcher. So if it's Itunes, Quicktime, Winamp, Youtube, Web Browser, Silverlight, and/or DRM'd video, if you can play it on the PC, you can watch it on your Slingcatcher... it will re-encode it and send it to your Slingcatcher.

Sling Projector is to the PC as Slingbox is to a DVR...

Slingbox grabs the output of your Cablebox and sends it to the Sling Player.

Sling Projector grabs the output of your media app and sends it to the Sling Catcher

This=my opinion/findings :) So take it with a grain of salt.

[pc @ Jan 7th 2008 1:30AM]

plug in external usb drives...check
divx...check
purchasing when available...check

[theSloth @ Jan 7th 2008 11:26AM]

For just playing DIVX/IFO/x.264, the Popcornhour does a great job for much less money. Also supports internal and external hard drives, NAS etc.

[Bunklung @ Jan 9th 2008 5:39PM]

Video with all the applications working (including Sling Projector "projecting" a Cinema Now movie to the Slingcatcher)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKn3RNWq9-g

This thing kicks butt.