Windows Phone Thoughts: SlingPlayer Mobile Coming Soon

"Sling Media is expected to announce Thursday that consumers can use a wide range of mobile devices to watch their home television from anywhere in the world. The company is set to unveil new software that adds this capability to its Slingbox hardware product this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Sling Media co-founder and head of business development Jason Krikorian said support for mobile devices always has been part of the company's vision but that the initial focus was on the PC because of the broadband connection. "There are solutions for live and recorded TV on mobile phones, but now for the first time you can have full access to every single channel you've got at your house," he said. "It's not just a TV experience on your phone, it's your TV experience, like you have at home when you're on your couch." The new mobile client, as the software is known, works with any device that uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0 or 5.0. A visual version of a remote control pops up on the screen, making it a fairly straightforward process to choose whether to watch television live from their home cable set-top box or satellite receiver or something recorded on their digital video recorder."



The Sling Media team first demonstrated SlingPlayer Mobile at Mobius last month. Then they demonstrated it again at CES. TV on-the-go sounds awesome and I'm really looking forward to its release, which is apparently this quarter. No word yet on pricing though. And on a related note, we can probably expect the PAL version of the Slingbox to debut shortly, so those in Europe and the Asia-Pacific will soon be able to grab a piece of the action.