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Sling Media to demo SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch

by Brad Linder (RSS feed) Jun 8th 2008 at 10:30PM

SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone
Want to watch live TV on your iPhone? Pretty soon you may be able to... assuming you've got a Slingbox set up at home. While Sling Media has been releasing client software for Windows, Mac, and a variety of cellphones for years that lets you stream live or recorded TV over the internet, there's been no iPhone version so far.

But tomorrow Sling Media will be showing off an early proof of concept version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone at WWDC. The company started working on the software before the release of the iPhone SDK, so this is not the final version of the software, and Sling Media does not plan to release a public version just yet. But if you happen to be in San Francisco and want to check it out for yourself, Sling Media product manager Vicky Shum will be hanging out at the Starbucks at 120 4th Street from 10am to 4pm today.

The company will be releasing a commercial version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone at some point. Just not this week. This week, the company's releasing a pretty picture (see above), and a bit of hope.

Update: Check out some hot video action after the jump, courtesy of Dave Zatz:

Tags: iphone, sling-media, slingplayer, slingplayer-mobile, slingplayer-mobile-for-the-iphone