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What can I say, this thing was made for travellers of all sort. I got to watch My Name is Earl and Four Kings last night. Of course it wasn’t live, but it was in English AND good quality. If you don’t know what a SlingBox is, keep reading that’s the point of this post. Basically, the slingbox is a device that hooks up to your cable/satellite/Tivo device and broadcasts it to the application running on your PC. It works over a home network, the internet and even on smartphones with a decent data connection. The best part is, it allows you to control the device it’s watching via a remote. It’s also very easy to set up. They retail for about $250 at most major retailers, you know, like Best Buy. So I have one of these guys hooked up to my Cable Box, which is also a DVR (Digital VCR) and it allows me to watch my TV (including all my premium channels, video on demand and recorded TV). Basically, this thing lets me sit on my couch from my computer, anywhere in the world with an internet connection. The quality is great, and I can watch English speaking TV shows anywhere I go. For myself, and others that travel to non english speaking countries this is great. We watched the Grammy’s and saw our boys sweep them with 5 wins, this was pretty cool. The downside is that right now, there is no way to use my Apple Powerbook to watch the SlingBox, but they promise me it’s coming. I’ve even used my Pocket PC with the beta player to watch TV in bed without disturbing Jen. Now that’s progress.

For more info:

http://slingmedia.com/slingbox/

I’d love to let you demo it with mine, but I’m busy watching it…