KidStallyn said: It won't be long. With Orb 2.0 being release to the app store, and their latest update allows streaming video over 3G as well as Wi-Fi.....The ball has been taken out of Apple and ATTs court, so all those haters who kept making that broad speculation were wrong. I knew they were wrong all along as I beta tested the Orb 2.0 app and the Live TV streaming is amazing. Once Sling finally gets theirs released, it will be even better. HDTV Slinging should be amazing! Lets get it ON Sling!

It's so odd that other software companies can produce apps for the iPhone in mere mos and have it on the app store so quickly but we yet to see a SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone.  I understand that Apple probably has something to do with this but if they're allowing Orb 2.0 app how come we SlingMedia is having a difficult time releasing their mobile app.   Doesn't make sense at all to me. 

AT&T allows the SPM app on other cell phones, so this shouldn't be an issue

Apple allows apps like SPM i.e. Orb 2.0 on their iPhones, so this shouldn't be an issue

Sling Media has a pre-alpha app that looked pretty good to me - how long do we have to wait?

Slingbox Classic streaming Directv, iPhone 3G, 2.6GHz Macbook Pro, Apple TV, Time Capsule 1TB, WD HD Media Player, PS3, 4 HD DVR.

No question the reason this isn't out the door yet was because Sling wanted to finish the BB client first. As for the possible boost in sales, Sonos which is a wonderful company for home audio streaming, released a beautiful app which actually DISPLACES their own $300 controller. The app is perfect in every way and was written up in yesterday's new york times as part of an article on simplicity of technology. The interesting part was a quote from the CEO stating that the app clearly boosted hardware sales of their devices.

Hopefully Sling is listening. I am certain they will get a sizable bump if they execute on a strong iPhone app. I am optomistic we will get more concrete details at Macworld and/or CES.

There are a number of things that make me very concerned about SlingMedia's long term viability. There's now no progress or updates on the iPhone client, earlier in the year announcements about SlingPlayer including EPG has gone quiet with the beta programme just stopping. Here in the UK one major retailer is clearing SlingPlayers stock at 50% as end of line.

SlingMedia is a very spcialised and expensive product I just hope I'm wrong but I'm becoming very worried due to the lack of updates & communications from the company.

I use orb to stream live video from cable or satellite to my iphone and to be honest it looks ten times better than my tweaked htc diamond running slingplayer

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you have a tuner on the pc and download the software for free and either pay for the app on the iphone or use the limited capabilities of the free orb through apple store

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Sling is set to announce/demonstrate the iPhone Slingplayer at MacWorld today/this week. I'm soooo happy they have finally given us something official. They are to deliver the app to Apple for certification in Q1, so I'm guessing by July I'll be able to get(buy) it from the app store.

Well, that's great news that sling is going to be released sometime soon for iphone

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And Orb isn't a stand alone solution like Slingbox.
I like that slingbox has nothing to do with my PC...much simpler to deploy.

Slingbox for Iphone will only work on Slingbox SOLO or Slingbox PRO-HD.

See: http://ca.slingmedia.com/get/io_1238539119898.html
"Your current Slingbox will still work without the upgrade, but software like SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and future services will only be supported for customers using Slingbox SOLO and Slingbox PRO-HD products or forthcoming SlingLoaded products."

For users of any other slingbox products, the new iPhone app is USELESS unless you spend around $250.00 for the hardware upgrade plus est$50.00 iphone app.

Myself, I have the slingbox classic. An orb server + tuner card is looking mighty nice right about now.

I had to upgrade to the Solo a while ago since my Classic finally died.

Even so, the older units sell very well on eBay - could recoupe some of the upgrade cost.

Also I'm pretty sure I paid a lot less for the Solo than $200 bucks, was more like $130.

I'm expecting the iPhone client to be priced at $29.95ish, since the PocketPC was $19.95. If it's $50 I'll still probably buy it. If Sling can somehow include the iPhone client for free if you are forced to buy a new Slingbox, that would also be nice...