SlingPlayer for Mac 1.0.8 Released Publicly Today

Thank you to those of you who participated in the private beta and also to Matt for the excellent write-up!

Sling Media Hearts the EU

We're looking for a couple more testers: If you have a Slingbox in the EU, and you’d like to be a part of a private beta test for SlingPlayer for Windows:
1. Register at beta.slingmedia.com
2. Add your Slingbox information (instructions are on the site)
3. Then email us:
To: beta @ slingmedia . com
Subject: EU Beta Candidate for SP Win 2.0

You must be able to communicate in written English for the beta program.  Please note if you’re  fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and/or German.

Re: Our iPhone app – We’re waiting on Apple, who qualifies all apps before they get posted to the App store.

Sling on!

SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry v1.0 is now a fully supported product, yay!  Thank you to all of you who contributed your time and suggestions to get us to this celebratory milestone.

If you have a Slingbox and a supported BlackBerry device*, you can try the full version for free for 30 days.  Point your BlackBerry browser to downloads.slingmedia.com.  If you have a supported device with current firmware, you'll be able to download.  If the firmware is out of date, you'll get a warning message.

 *See http://downloads.slingmedia.com/get/spm-blackberry-us.html for full details.

CHEERS EVERYONE - THANK YOU FROM THE SPM BLACKBERRY TEAM !!

In case you missed it, yesterday we rolled out a minor update to the PC client, which is bundled with the latest Slingbox firmware.

What's New:

• The Encoding tab has expanded options.  The UI will go through additional changes--this is just step one.  To check it out, click on the VGA/QVGA mini-icon, lower left just above the Play/Pause button.
• The Pro-HD firmware includes a fix to allow HD streaming to a SlingCatcher (which will require new Catcher firmware, due out "soon").

Critical fixes:

• Stream rate slows until it crashes. FIXED

     http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/24708/

• Some Vista Acer customers had installation issues  FIXED

What you need to know:

• For those who want to switch back and forth between connecting via the Slingbox ID and Direct IP, you'll now need to Add a second entry in your Slingbox Directory.  In other words, you'll have two entries to the same Slingbox: one via the SID, one via IP. 

• There's a new issue that some of you may see in which the remote control flashes on/off.  We're currently working on a fix.

Download: http://downloads.slingmedia.com/

Sling on!