For nearly two months, I was honored to be a part of the Beta test team for the second generation of Slingboxes. While I was tuning, adjusting, reinstalling, and just plain watching the super (and sometimes not-so-super) TV picture in the upper right corner of my screen, I got started adding some icons for use in favorites. There were several HD channels that were missing. A couple of cable channels had changed their names. In fact, so did some over-the-air networks. Then I set up icons for my local channels. While I was doing that, I decided I ought to use a standard template for for the locals that would indicate the network affiliation, the call letters, and the channel number.

Just of the few U.S. icons available

You might guess where it went from there. There were members of the Beta team from Chicago, New York, and a few other large cities. I thought I might

give them a small gift of their own icons. Using my template, it was pretty easy to paste in the information for their local channels. Once I got started, I couldn't stop. First it was big cities. Then there were the smaller ones. To make a long story short, from the base of just over 150 U.S. icons supplied with SlingPlayer, I ended up with more than 1,200 in my file.

SlingCommunity has graciously agreed to host the file within the community as a service for all community members. You are welcome to whatever icons you'd like. There are HD channels, local channels, and even a few for your security cameras. If you have something you'd like to add, you can email the image to channels@bancado.net. If you don't have an image, send the info anyway and we'll see what we can find.

UPDATE 2/20/08

Version 1.6 of the U.S. Channels icon file is available! Version 1.6 contains everything in 1.4, like Sirius and XM Radio music channel icons and now includes new channels and about 50 new icons for the HD channels on DirecTV!

Click here to download version 1.6