{"id":1027,"date":"2010-06-28T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T11:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-06-28T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T11:54:04","slug":"placeshift-your-tv-with-slingbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/placeshift-your-tv-with-slingbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Placeshift Your TV with Slingbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks, I have had my eye on a new gizmo (apart from the iPhone 4 which I will unbox, preview and review). It&#8217;s called &#8220;Slingbox&#8221; and allows you to rebroadcast input video to another device at home or over the Internet. Various inputs may include (but not necessarily limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free to air television (analogue and digital),<\/li>\n<li>Security cameras,<\/li>\n<li>VCR\/DVD\/Blu-ray players,<\/li>\n<li>DVRs (such as TiVo and Windows Media Centre),<\/li>\n<li>Subscription television (i.e. Foxtel, Austar, SelecTV, etc).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a couple of models in the USA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slingbox Solo:\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 1080i input downscaled to standard definition streaming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Slingbox Pro-HD:\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 1080i input with high definition streaming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are mobile applications for iPhone, Windows Phone 6, Android, Palm OS and Symbian OS which will work over both Wi-Fi and 3G. Through the use of an on-screen remote, you can control devices like a Foxtel IQ2 to change channels, pause or rewind live television, navigate the TV guide or record a show to watch later.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has a localised version of the Slingbox Solo and another version called &#8220;Slingbox Pro&#8221; which is a step below the Slingbox Pro-HD. It is currently unknown as to when Australia will get the Pro-HD model.<\/p>\n<p>I can see Foxtel getting upset about such a device and using a Slingbox could potentially break the terms and conditions of use of the service. That aside, it&#8217;s a great way to get the most of your pay television subscription if you are away from home for sizeable lengths of time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post back if I happen to get a Slingbox and let you know how it works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks, I have had my eye on a new gizmo (apart from the iPhone 4 which I will unbox, preview and review). It&#8217;s called &#8220;Slingbox&#8221; and allows you to rebroadcast input video to another device at home or over the Internet. Various inputs may include (but not necessarily limited to): &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/placeshift-your-tv-with-slingbox\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,100,152,133,151,18,134,79],"tags":[126,355,2267,102,657,301,17,660,654,661,2321,656,655,562,658,659],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-operating-systems-technology","category-iphone-apple-technology-technology","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-mobile","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-wifi","category-wireless","tag-3g","tag-android","tag-blu-ray","tag-dvd","tag-dvr","tag-foxtel","tag-iphone","tag-palm-os","tag-slingbox","tag-symbian-os","tag-television","tag-tivo","tag-vcr","tag-wi-fi","tag-windows-media-centre","tag-windows-phone","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}