Sling.com online video portal is open to the (US) public

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Sling.com online video portal is open to the (US) public

by Brad Linder Nov 26th 2008

Sling Media has officially launched its Sling.com online video portal, which we first checked out a few weeks ago while it was in beta. If you have a Slingbox, this site is all kinds of awesome, because it will allow you to watch live TV streaming from your home on any Windows PC with Firefox or Internet Explorer.

If you don't have a Slingbox, right now Sling.com is just another online video site that has an assortment of TV shows and movies from Fox, NBC, CBS, Sony, MGM, and web content providers like College Humor. Honestly, you can find most, but not all of the same content at Hulu.

Sling does plan to upgade its software so that Mac using Slingbox owners can also stream live TV. But right now anybody with a Flash enabled web browser running Windows, Mac, Linux or something else altogether can watch the web video streams from Sling Media's content partners - provided you're in the US. The content won't play outside of the region.

Tags: hulu, online-video, sling, sling-media, sling.com, slingbox

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pyrofallout said 12:10PM on 11-26-2008

"We're sorry but Sling.com's Live TV is not currently supported for Mac."

what gives

Mike said 12:33PM on 11-26-2008

RTFA

Ryan Worrell said 1:09PM on 11-26-2008

but anybody with a Flash enabled web browser running Windows, Mac, Linux or something else altogether can watch the video streams - provided you're in the US

tells me that my flash enabled browser should work now. so...try RTFA yourself.

Brad Linder said 1:19PM on 11-26-2008

Sorry, that was poorly worded. By video streams, I mean the *other* video streams from Hulu, NBC, CBS, etc. I've updated the post to make that point more clear.

Pyrofallout said 2:50PM on 11-26-2008

Thanks for the clarification Brad! :-)

vdomehq said 4:30PM on 11-26-2008

I recently starting using http://parkmytv.com which hosts my slingbox for me and I'm now getting MUCh better video quality since I'm not limited to my home DSL upload speeds and I pleasantly no longer annoy those at home watching TV while I'm switching channels on them while away :) I think they are in trials now but I was able to get an account early on...

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