April 16, 2009 6:14 PM

I'm a little more relaxed now, thanks for the update.

April 16, 2009 7:44 PM

I stopped anticipating the release when I found out it won't work with my SB Classics. Now I hope that Apple rejects it.

April 16, 2009 10:19 PM

arichter5 said:

I stopped anticipating the release when I found out it won't work with my SB Classics. Now I hope that Apple rejects it.

That's a real mature attitude. Let's make mature adult like comments here folks.

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April 16, 2009 10:36 PM

NA9D said:

Additionally, TUAW is reporting on their Twitter page that they received the same tip that the Boy Genius blog received but they opted not to run with it. Why? Well, they did some research and determined that the IP that sent the "tip" was an IP that belongs to the Bureau of Prisons and was allocated to a prison or other correctional facility in West Virginia. Given that information they felt it was bogus. Boy Genius was not so smart....

LOL, i never knew slingmedia and apple were run from a correctional facility. Instead of making license plates, they make cutting edge electronics.

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April 16, 2009 11:29 PM

new service. One time $200 dollars (estimate) for streaming tv to your iphone. you can also watch the streaming tv on your computer. The quality is high. Sounds like a good deal.

April 17, 2009 6:37 AM updated: April 17, 2009 6:37 AM

Takahashi said:

so Boy Genius Report was lying?

The BGR quoted an "anonymous" source w/o looking to see if it was from a reliable address. The IP that submitted the tip was from a prison in West Virginia.

So no he wasn't lying, but spreading a false rumor (it isn't lying if you don't know it's false). He was just an ignoramous and wanted to generate some headlines and hits to his website.

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April 17, 2009 8:12 AM updated: April 17, 2009 8:14 AM

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, you do still work there! ;)

How many emails and voicemails did you get my man?

Glad they finally said something, even if it was very little.

April 17, 2009 9:29 AM

The good news from this false rumor is because apple had been approved others application that streams video, will be hard to reject the slingplayer. Also the reaction from the false rumor will be difficult to ATT trying to push apple to reject the application. ATT is a big company, and if there are afraid of the bandwidth, they should upgrade the system. They have tons of advertising of the iPhone applications in the TV. I can bet that if the slingplayer is approved, you will see an advertising of an application that allows you to watch TV from the iPhone.

I think that the problem of the old equipment is something about the encoding of the stream video (CODEC) that apple allow. Probably this old boxes doesn't have the requirement to install new firmware of the new codec.

April 17, 2009 11:34 AM

psuJC said:
Well, it may be a little gruff, but I share his sentiment. If sling is going to artificially insert incompatibility with certain sling boxes, then I hope Apple arbitrarily rejects their app. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

Well, Sling Media is not adding code to avoid Slingbox Classic. They have chosen only to support the new and better format in the new Slingboxes.

The old Slingboxes where based on WMV from Microsoft. The new Slingboxes are based on MPEG-4.

It's not like Sling Media have removed anything. When they sold Slingbox Classic, nobody talked about Slingplayer for iPhone.

April 17, 2009 12:00 PM

psuJC said:

Well it worked with classic in beta, there's video of it... so you're wrong.... not to mention i purchased my slingbox classic less than a year ago... and there was most certainly talk about the iphone app at that time... that's why i bought the damn thing.

How do you know that the beta version supported it? What was shown in video was likely an Alpha version that was demoed. If you have used the beta version and are leaking this information then you are violating your NDA with Sling. If you are just basing your comments on what you read then you are basing it on rumors.

The thing that must be noted is that only the ProHD supports a codec other than WMV. The Pro and Solo models only work in WMV. So the decision was not based on codec support. The decision must have been based solely on economics and if it made sense to support hardware that is 4 years old.

Sling's not the only company that has done this. I bought a fifth generation iPod back in July 2007. A few months later, Apple announced movie rentals from iTunes. But only new iPods could be used to view rented movies. So my brand new player was already not supported. This is the high tech world. If you don't like the fact your old hardware isn't supported that's fine. But don't go around wishing ill-will for the rest of us who have bought newer boxes. That's just wrong.

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