Great Experience With Sling Media Slingbox AV

Do You want to see the satellite TV you so heavily pay for,when you are not at home or near you set top box?The sling Media Slingbox AV lets you do just that,expanding a little on its predecessor,the first generation Slingbox.The Sling Media Slingbox AV basically takes in the video output from your st top box or satellite box ( Astro Decoder,the most popular TV satellite cable in my country) and converts that to a digital video format that is accessible anywhere in the world.


This digital video can be viewed on a number of platforms like Mac,Windows XP,Windows Mobile,Palm and Symbian,but quite obviously you need a pretty powerful connection at both ends to stream this content flawlessly.The Sling Media Slingbox AV allow control over you set top box from anywhere in the world.It support Digital Video Recording(DVR) as well,which allows you can stream recorded content at a later stage.Emmm overall for me the Sling Media Slingbox AV will infinitesimally change the way you experience Television.

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BBC iPlayers,New Tech 2007

The BBC plans to provide downloads of its programming during 2007, promising a see change in the way we watch television.Its iPlayer is part of a bigger picture ( also featuring deals with Microsoft ) aimed at making the public broadcasters content more accessible and relevant.

Accoding to the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Ashley Highfield " the iPlayer will offer you cath up television on your computer,up to seven days after tranmission.You will be able to download any program from the eight BBC channels and then watch it on your PC and,we hope, move it across to your TV set or down to your mobile phone,to wacth it when you want".

The move will alarm ISPs,which will have to handle the extra traffic and subscribers will have to keep an ever closer eye on their download caps.Trials and a Public Value Test are under way to assess the benefits to licence fee payers.

The basic of iPlayers features:

• The oddly-named BBC IMP (Interactive Media Player) is a test system designed to allow you to watch BBC television programs and listen to BBC radio programs after they have been broadcast

• When you run the program, you see a five-tabbed display. The first, called home highlights the new and favourite content.

• The second tab, Guide, allows you to search the listing for programs to watch. This is really a Microsoft Internet Explorer window. From here you can find all the programs that the iMP can deliver to you.

• A third tab, Search, allows you to use free-form text searches (Google-style) to search for programs to download.

• Tab four, My Downloads, provide the facility for reviewing, cancelling, deleting or watching the programs you have downloaded

• The content has been specially modified for IMP. This includes on-screen branding

• And also a DOG in the corner of each program. You can also use a special hidden monitor screen to monitor downloads and uploads your computer is making

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