Home cable or satellite TV on your Palm OS Treo
One of the coolest new smartphone technologies demonstrated at CES was Slingbox for the Palm OS. Available in about two months, the product allows you to use your Treo to watch and control your home television, including paid cable or satellite services. It turns your Treo into a remarkable mobile entertainment device.
We recorded a live demonstration of Slingbox interacting with a Treo 700p by a Palm Product Manager and great friend to the community, Greg Agustin. The technology remains in beta for Palm OS, so we were required to keep the video under embargo until we received special management approval to publish it. You won’t find an official demonstration like this anywhere else!
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This can already be done through Orb networks software installed on a home based server, with a tuner, that acts the same way as the sling, just a different interface.
This can already be done through Orb networks software installed on a home based server, with a tuner, that acts the same way as the sling, just a different interface.
I went to the Sling Media websites download page and found the PocketPC and Windows SmartPhone versions of their product but not the Palm version.
http://us.slingmedia.com/page/downloads.html
At first I thought that maybe it’s not listed because it’s “beta” software, but there is a OS X beta on the same page. Makes me wonder how committed Sling Media is to developing for the Palm when they don’t display (or even mention) the product on their downloads page.
I went to the Sling Media websites download page and found the PocketPC and Windows SmartPhone versions of their product but not the Palm version.
http://us.slingmedia.com/page/downloads.html
At first I thought that maybe it’s not listed because it’s “beta” software, but there is a OS X beta on the same page. Makes me wonder how committed Sling Media is to developing for the Palm when they don’t display (or even mention) the product on their downloads page.
Actually, I’m going to retract what I said above because I think that my recollection is off.
I heard about a Slingbox for Palm client back in 2005 and mistakenly thought that there was a Palm beta available at that time. But after doing some research, I found out that the beta available back then was for Windows Mobile and not Palm. My thinking was that Sling Media had a beta client for the Palm out for a year and never mentioned, nor made it available on their website showed a lack of commitment, but my timeline was wrong. My bad.
Palm’s largest physical presence at CES was the Slingbox demonstration area. Palm and Sling are eager to roll this technology out. Whether the technology development will keep pace with the expected timeline, however, is another story.
It will be a cool piece of technology, but since I already had the hardware to pull off ORB, I figured why wait for Sling. I have Orb running perfectly to my 700p (or any other internet device). Especially works great when you use PDAnet on your 700p for your laptop and ORB that way. You get a really good consistent stream
I have the SlingBox Pro and I can’t wait for the Palm client. The picture quality is awesome and I sling and control my dvr and tv from my laptop
Caveat to anyone who succumbs to the too-cool-for-school lure of being able to watch anything, almost anywhere… make sure you have a good (unlimited)data plan. Although I was supposed to have unlimited data, human error led to my data to be billed a la carte, so to speak, with a minimal plan, and the bill for my first month with slingbox access…was in excess of $4100!
To quote our Verizon rep…I’d used “massive amounts of data”…and that was mostly sling-ing.
We resolved the issue without having to pay…but it serves a cautionary tale.