Has Hell Frozen Over? (close...we finally got the SlingPlayer for Mac out)

For those of you who have followed this saga, you know that we thought we could complete the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X much sooner than we have. The net result was we set false expectations, and that is not an acceptable outcome. I want to personally apologize for the lack of the Mac client before now.

Mea culpa aside...we have some good news... the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X BETA is finally here!

This is just the start...we have lots more work to do...those of you who have been using your Slingbox with a PC know that we are continually working to improve the Sling experience via software updates. The same is true in the case of the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X. There are many things we are working on to make the Production Release better than the Beta, but we rely on you to help! We are open to any and all feedback, suggestions, and comments. Hearing from you, our customer, is invaluable.

A few of the high priority improvements we are making:

• The current SlingPlayer for Mac OS X looks too much like a Windows application, and our developers are busy making big changes to the UI to make it more consistent with the traditional Macintosh experience.
  
  
• We currently only support OS X 10.4...not sure how many of you are still on 10.3, but we are working on getting a release out that supports it.
  
  
• As with the PC client, we are constantly improving audio/video quality and our SlingStream algorithms. This Beta is not yet up to the quality of the latest PC client, but we'll get there.

I hope you enjoy the first public beta release and look forward to hearing from you.

Please send us feedback to: mailto:macfeedback@slingmedia.com ... Of course, we also encourage you to post on this forum: www.slingcommunity.com/forum/topic/35

Sling on,

Blake