Comments on: Use your Tablet PC as a TV remote and TV with Slingbox http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:44:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Make You Go Hmm: » Appliances should talk to PCs and cellphones now, not maybe in a year http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-235940 Make You Go Hmm: » Appliances should talk to PCs and cellphones now, not maybe in a year Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:25:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-235940 [...] Our household appliances for the most part are dumb. Manufacturers have spent foolish amounts of time and money putting LCDs inside the doors of refrigerators instead of giving us features that would help us be proactive to breakdowns. At Best Buy recently I saw one of these TV-in-door fridges and thought: why wouldn’t people buy an LCD monitor and mount somewhere besides the door of the fridge? And who would watch TV on the door of their fridge for any extended time? While cooking is the pitch, but why not a laptop or slate Tablet and Slingbox instead? Much more portable. [...] […] Our household appliances for the most part are dumb. Manufacturers have spent foolish amounts of time and money putting LCDs inside the doors of refrigerators instead of giving us features that would help us be proactive to breakdowns. At Best Buy recently I saw one of these TV-in-door fridges and thought: why wouldn’t people buy an LCD monitor and mount somewhere besides the door of the fridge? And who would watch TV on the door of their fridge for any extended time? While cooking is the pitch, but why not a laptop or slate Tablet and Slingbox instead? Much more portable. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » MLB makes bush league move complaining about Slingbox usage http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-150703 Make You Go Hmm: » MLB makes bush league move complaining about Slingbox usage Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:23:36 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-150703 [...] When I bought a Slingbox last year, some wondered how this ultimately would be treated by content owners. MLB may soon stand for Major League Bitching instead of Baseball, if they decide to put any serious heat on Sling Media over customers placeshifting MLB games using Slingbox. [...] […] When I bought a Slingbox last year, some wondered how this ultimately would be treated by content owners. MLB may soon stand for Major League Bitching instead of Baseball, if they decide to put any serious heat on Sling Media over customers placeshifting MLB games using Slingbox. […]

]]> By: ActiveNick http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-54004 ActiveNick Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:50:17 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-54004 Great article! If anyone is interested, I posted my own about using it on Tablet PCs over a Verizon EV-DO connection. You can check it out here: http://www.infusionblogs.com/blogs/activenick/archive/2006/02/21/311.aspx. I'm also exploring the mobile lifestyle and how you can fit this setup in your life. Feel free to share your own scenarios there. I'll also make sure to update it once we get the Windows Mobile version (as announced at CES, see http://slingmedia.com/press/pressreleases-01.05.06b.php). Great article! If anyone is interested, I posted my own about using it on Tablet PCs over a Verizon EV-DO connection. You can check it out here: http://www.infusionblogs.com/blogs/activenick/archive/2006/02/21/311.aspx. I’m also exploring the mobile lifestyle and how you can fit this setup in your life. Feel free to share your own scenarios there. I’ll also make sure to update it once we get the Windows Mobile version (as announced at CES, see http://slingmedia.com/press/pressreleases-01.05.06b.php).

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Sony LocationFree on PSP http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-27056 Make You Go Hmm: » Sony LocationFree on PSP Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:58:09 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-27056 [...] Sony is selling something that seems very similar to the SlingBox called the LocationFree PlayerPak [instruction manual pdf]: The LFA-PK1 LocationFree® Player Pak gives you the ability to view live TV, recorded TV (via DVR), VHS tapes or DVDs from your home to your computer over a broadband internet connection. The Player Pak includes the LocationFree base station and easy to install LocationFree Player for PC. [...] […] Sony is selling something that seems very similar to the SlingBox called the LocationFree PlayerPak [instruction manual pdf]: The LFA-PK1 LocationFree® Player Pak gives you the ability to view live TV, recorded TV (via DVR), VHS tapes or DVDs from your home to your computer over a broadband internet connection. The Player Pak includes the LocationFree base station and easy to install LocationFree Player for PC. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » New Slingbox ad on Jim Rome show + new software version http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-25273 Make You Go Hmm: » New Slingbox ad on Jim Rome show + new software version Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:27:37 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-25273 [...] One of my favorite talk radio show hosts is Jim Rome. Jim leads the pack for sports talk radio, IMO. It’s not easy work doing three hours of radio five days a week and Jim makes it fun to listen to and has an engaging group of listeners he refers to as clones. Rome admits that you have to listen to the show a few times to understand his tone which seems less than complimentary to some atheletes (and sometimes non-atheletes) in his signature takes/smack. Well, I was just listening to today’s show and heard him start talking about the Slingbox! [...] […] One of my favorite talk radio show hosts is Jim Rome. Jim leads the pack for sports talk radio, IMO. It’s not easy work doing three hours of radio five days a week and Jim makes it fun to listen to and has an engaging group of listeners he refers to as clones. Rome admits that you have to listen to the show a few times to understand his tone which seems less than complimentary to some atheletes (and sometimes non-atheletes) in his signature takes/smack. Well, I was just listening to today’s show and heard him start talking about the Slingbox! […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » CNN using technology to max in The Situation Room http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-21347 Make You Go Hmm: » CNN using technology to max in The Situation Room Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:11:22 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-21347 [...] Since buying a Slingbox and setting nearly a month ago, I’ve had the TV tuned into channel 44, CNN, most of the time. In particular I’ve noticed Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room, coming at viewers with all sorts of different technology in real world play. They’ve got news from bloggers, multiple TVs with different topics, roving reporters in the field and today I noticed a significant slice of the screen being used for Hurrican Katrina Missing Children. At the bottom of the screen a news ticker scrolls by with the current headlines. [...] […] Since buying a Slingbox and setting nearly a month ago, I’ve had the TV tuned into channel 44, CNN, most of the time. In particular I’ve noticed Wolf Blitzer in The Situation Room, coming at viewers with all sorts of different technology in real world play. They’ve got news from bloggers, multiple TVs with different topics, roving reporters in the field and today I noticed a significant slice of the screen being used for Hurrican Katrina Missing Children. At the bottom of the screen a news ticker scrolls by with the current headlines. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Day 261: Tablet PC sales projections being downshifted by market researchers http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-17756 Make You Go Hmm: » Day 261: Tablet PC sales projections being downshifted by market researchers Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:42:34 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-17756 [...] At home, I’ve been using the Tablet PC a lot recently as a TV remote via Slingbox, which I think is a great way to utilyze a slate Tablet. Also cool for taking the TV with you, quite literally. No, it’s not an ink-friendly app, but then it is the type of app which doesn’t have to be ink-friendly to be useful on the slate. [...] […] At home, I’ve been using the Tablet PC a lot recently as a TV remote via Slingbox, which I think is a great way to utilyze a slate Tablet. Also cool for taking the TV with you, quite literally. No, it’s not an ink-friendly app, but then it is the type of app which doesn’t have to be ink-friendly to be useful on the slate. […]

]]> By: ^Lestat http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-17226 ^Lestat Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:27:06 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050829/2300/#comment-17226 Pretty cool! Although some features are still not there as mentioned in the article, I'm sure they will be coming out with them in the near future, with a firmware upgrade or something? With that said, who could beat that price in comparison to media center! Pretty cool! Although some features are still not there as mentioned in the article, I’m sure they will be coming out with them in the near future, with a firmware upgrade or something?

With that said, who could beat that price in comparison to media center!

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