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:
Want to watch TV on your iPhone? Yesterday we would have said the best way to do this is to purchase TV shows from the iTunes store or transfer recordings (or downloads) from your computer to your iPhone the old fashioned way. But now Chris Carey has released a MythTV FrontEnd for the iPhone.
The application lets you browse recorded shows, check out program information, and stream videos from your Linux PC with MythTV BackEnd installed.
While Sling Media is considering developing a version of its SlingPlayer software for the iPhone that will let Slingbox owners stream content from their home TV or PVR to a handset, Carey's MythTV FrontEnd application is the first tool I'm aware of that actually lets you stream recorded TV to an iPhone.
You can check out a video of MythTV for the iPhone after the jump.
Sling Media is announcing the next generation of its SlingPlayer software to go along with the next generation of Slingboxes the company is showing off this week at CES. If you're not familiar with the Slingbox, it's a contraption that you plug into your TiVo, DVD player, TV, or other video source that lets you stream live video over the internet and effectively watch live TV from any PC, Mac, or mobile device running the SlingPlayer software.
SlingPlayer 2.0 includes a couple of nifty updates including a 60 minute buffer that lets you pause, fast forward, and rewind videos instantly, without having to send a signal over the internet telling your PVR to pause first (which can take a few seconds). You also get a new electronic program guide based on your local TV lineup, which makes it easier to flip channels from your PC. And Sling Media has also added the Clip+Sling feature, which will let users save clips from TV shows and movies and share them with friends.
SlingPlayer 2.0 is a free upgrade for current and new Slingbox customers and should be available sometime in the next few months.. There's no word on when we'll see Mac or mobile clients of SlingPlayer 2.0.
It's been a cruel, cruel summer without our beloved NFL football, and pre-season games don't really cut it. Fortunately, kickoff is tomorrow (not a moment too soon for the rabid fans around here) and we'll able to get our fill of long punt returns, bone-crunching tackles, and (hopefully) more hilarious MasterCard commercials.
If despite your best intentions to stay on the couch and catch all the games, you end up needing to be out being, you know, social or something, you can always avail yourself of the latest technology and take the games with you.
Mike Spitalieri over at Laptop Magazine takes a look at five ways to make your football games follow you wherever you go. Unfortunately, only one option is (almost) free, but that's mainly a symptom of a sports league trying to squeeze every last nickel out of fans.
If you need something to keep you occupied between games, be sure to add AOL's FanHouse blog to your RSS feed. Go Bears!
In today's mobile Minute, we'll take a look at some of the latest news and software related to Windows Mobile devices.
Silverlight coming to Windows Mobile
Microsoft's Silverlight technology is taking aim squarely at Adobe's Flash, which currently dominates interactive video on the web. But one area where Flash implementation has never been very good is mobile devices. It looks like Silverlight could be the platform of choice for interactive mobile web applications.
Check out this interview with .NET Compact Framework Principle Product Unit Manager Scott Holden for a look at a prototype of Silverlight running on a Smartphone.
After spending several weeks in public beta, SlingPlayer for Mac OS Xturns 1.0 today, with hundreds of bug fixes and a redesigned GUI based on user input..
SlingPlayer is Sling Media's software for watching video streamed over the internet from a Slingbox attached to your TV, DVD player, personal video recorder, AppleTV or other A/V devices.
Probably the biggest updates from the beta version include support for remote control of several new Apple products, including Front Row, AppleTV, and the iPod in a Universal Dock or an iPod Hi-Fi.
SlingPlayer for Mac supports PowerPC and Intel processors running Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later.
There's been a ton of news out of Sling Media during the first few days of CES. This morning, the company officially unveiled SlingPlayer Mobile for PalmOS.
A public beta of the Palm client is due out by the end of January, with an official launch date scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. There's no word yet on pricing, but seeing as SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile has been available for a while with a price of $30, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Palm version will be comparably priced.
Sling also announced today that they'll be bundling some of their software with new HP notebooks, and they're demonstrating that SlingPlayer works with Vista, although I think the big surprise would have been if their software didn't run on Vista.
It's been a cruel, cruel summer without our beloved NFL football, and pre-season games don't really cut it. Fortunately, kickoff is tomorrow (not a moment too soon for the rabid fans around here) and we'll able to get our fill of long punt returns, bone-crunching tackles, and (hopefully) more 
