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There is a lot of excitement about devices that let you watch your own TV programming while you're traveling around the country, and even abroad. I've written about Sling Media's Slingbox and Sony's LocationFree TV in the past, but I never got a chance to test them side by side. Now that Sling has introduced a mobile-phone version of its SlingPlayer, and Sony has introduced compatibility with Windows laptops and its popular PSP game system, I felt it was high time for a showdown...
TiVo? That's so last year. There's a new cool device for the TV: the Slingbox, which lets you watch your home television when you're halfway around the world. Don't worry if that business trip to Australia has inconveniently come just when Man U is playing Arsenal in London. With a Slingbox in the living room and an Internet-connected laptop or 3G mobile phone on the road, you can follow every live strike by Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney just as if you were slumped into your favorite comfy chair in Highbury. Not that...
...More: slingmedia.com Every so often, a handy gadget comes along and changes our TV habits. In the 1990s WebTV married the Net with the tube, and TiVo famously began freeing us from network schedules. Now comes a new appliance to shift not when you watch your TV but where. Slingbox hooks up to your home set and beams whatever is onscreen to any Web-enabled device loaded with special software. Waiting for a plane in Paris? Use your laptop and the airport's wireless network to watch the local news from back home-or a DVD or an old show...
...question, once it's all up and running, is, how's the video? Truth is, I wasn't bowled over. You're not going to get any pleasure watching Full Metal Jacket or The House of Flying Daggers on your Slingbox, but Family Guy and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are passable. Think "sitcom" or better yet, "animated sitcom...
...Only time will tell whether the Slingbox turns out to be as addictive as an iPod. But just like TiVos before it, if you really love your TV, and I mean YOUR TV, Slingbox might just be your new best friend...