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Yet One More Way To Watch Television

  • NY Times, Friday, December 23, 2005 12:15 PM
Techies have been reading about the development of the Slingbox for quite some time, but yesterday's lengthy--and fawning--story in The New York Times is sure to create a certain amount of lust for the latest chunk of wondrous hardware. The Slingbox, about the size of a shoebox, makes TV even "more" portable. How so? It enables the truly devoted to watch any program that comes into their home--even when they are on the road. Think "place shifting" rather than simply time shifting. As long as one has a laptop computer, a broadband connection, the required software, and, of course, a slingbox, it is now possible to view a favorite program virtually anywhere in the world without having to wait to get home and see the recorded version. "The trend over the past 30 years is towards fragmentation," John Mansell, a Kagan Research analyst, told the Times' Ken Belson in discussing the Slingbox. "It makes life a little more complicated" for cable and satellite operators and programmers.

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