Sling Media has announced that their SlingPlayer Mobile application is now available to all RIM BlackBerry users, and that the application has been sent in for review at the Apple App Store.
The beta of the application was released late last year and the new polished release includes new features such as “the ability to add or edit paired Slingboxes and Channel Favorites via the program instead of just SlingPlayer 2.0 for Windows.”
Additionally, users will have the ability to turn on “low-bandwidth streaming, an enhanced aspect ratio or display mode support and audio track selection in the channel program, if available.”
The updated interface now shows off connection type, volume level and includes a keypad lock.
RIM says BlackBerrys that are compatible are “the Bold, 8820, Curve 8320 and Pearl 8120 from AT&T; the Curve 8900, Curve 8320 and Pearl Flip 8220 from T-Mobile; as well as the Curve 8350i from Sprint Nextel.”
The full application’s main purpose is to allow users to stream video from a Slingbox media hub while controlling their TVs and DVRs through the application.
The application costs $30 USD.
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CBS Entertainment has announced that it will be adding more classic shows to its CBS.com online video network and its partnering CBS Audience Network sites.
Beginning this morning, full episodes from “The Love Boat”, “Beverly Hills 90210″, “Twin Peaks”, “Family Ties”, and “Perry Mason” were made available on all of CBS’s online video networks and its partners, including CNET, AOL, Microsoft, Comcast, Joost, Sling Media, Veoh, and Bebo.
The broadcaster noted that more content was coming from “one of the largest television programming libraries in the entertainment business” and it seems in the upcoming months the company hopes to add more and more content.
While other broadcasters have made their content available only through certain outlets, CBS is going the other way, allowing its content to be viewed anywhere where there are fans and advertising revenue.
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After first being announced at CES 2007, Sling Media has finally announced the availability of the SlingCatcher playback device, 18 months after its initial unveiling.
The SlingCatcher, according to Cnet is a “playback device that’s designed to pull digital content from three sources and display them on your TV. It can play a variety of digital video files from an attached USB storage device (anything from a thumbdrive to a hard drive); display anything on your PC screen (including full-motion video) via the SlingProjector “screen scraping” software; and stream video from any source connected to a Slingbox (elsewhere in the house in high-resolution, or from a remote Slingbox source over the Internet at lesser quality).”
The SlingCatcher, especially with its $300 USD price tag, may seem like a niche product for the time being, but it stands to gain momentum when a few more features are upgraded.
Sling Media’s has already introduced Sling.com which it calls a “premium library of movies, TV shows, and Web videos” which already has content deals with NBC, Fox, CBS, Showtime, Break.com, National Geographic, and MGM. Dave Zatz, a former Sling employee adds “SlingCatcher will eventually tap directly into Sling.com for some web video, perhaps partially taking the PC out of the mix.”
Good to see it finally on the market.
