Will Sports Fans Cheer for New Slingbox?
Excerpted from The Washington Post “A Lot for Sports Fans to Like, but the New Slingbox Still Isn’t a Slam Dunk” by Rob Pegoraro, September 25, 2008 * * * * * Watching television on a computer screen is no special achievement these days. Between the free streaming video on the Web and TV downloads at iTunes and elsewhere, you don’t need to work too hard to turn your computer into a replacement for the tube. But if you can watch your own TV — with your local shows, your team’s games, your recorded programs — on a computer monitor, and do so hundreds of miles from your home, now that’s something else… That’s the trade-off of the Slingbox, the Web-connected “personal broadcaster” from Sling Media. Today, this division…is introducing the latest Slingbox, a high-definition device that fixes two flaws of earlier versions but can’t do much about some other underlying issues. The new $299.99 Slingbox Pro-HD, like older models, can take any video input and relay it over the Internet to a comput
