Sounds cool... but how will it be able to pull information from the VBI when the video source is a PVR?  I doubt all PVRs record (and playback) the VBI info faithfully...

Anyone else underwhelmed by this clip+sling feature?  Or is it just me?

I DON'T want to be able to clip 2 minutes of a stream and share it with others.

I want to be able to record an hour long program and use it for my own personal use to watch it later. In other words, to be able to use the Sling like a PVR on my PC.

Nigel

NigelS said:

Anyone else underwhelmed by this clip+sling feature? Or is it just me?

I DON'T want to be able to clip 2 minutes of a stream and share it with others.

I want to be able to record an hour long program and use it for my own personal use to watch it later. In other words, to be able to use the Sling like a PVR on my PC.

Nigel

 

I agree with you...this is a lot of effort apparently on Sling Media's part for what is nearly useless functionality to my thinking. Add to this the following:

1. The content creators, like Sony Television, HBO, NHL, etc, can and probably will restrict the sharing of the videos based on the rules that they come up with. Not what Sling Media says or any other third party.
   
   For example they can tell Sling Media what can be shared, including the duration, the quality (e.g., resolution, frame rate of a video content, bit rate of an audio content), and the number of people allowed to access the content.
   
   
2. Sling Media can and probably will put advertisements on the shared video, at the beginning, pertaining to the subject of the video.

This is quite the worthless feature.   I wish they would use this as a PVR for myself rather than a 2 min clip thing.  

richc said:  Now that a few more details have been posted, is there a Beta group available for early testing?

richc said: I'd enjoy seeing how it compares to capturing the video from current feeds with programs like Camtasia Studio and uploading to current video sharing sites or just uploading the encoded clip. 

If you like the Sling Community and have a Sansa player then check out the Sansa Community!

If this turns Slingbox into a tivo, Slingbox will be the greatest device ever. But if the only thing you can do is put it online, it's such a horrible idea because they obviously have the power to turn it into a tivo and don't want to allow it which is too bad.

From what I've read, the video stream was encoded specifically to prevent direct recording, probably to avoid flak from media companies over Digital Rights Management.  Replay actually designed "Slingcorder" to do exactly what Frank is talking about, but the encoding killed that app.

Clip+Sling seems like Sling Media throwing an extremely DRM-correct bone to its customers and touting it as some kind of added feature, when all it does it give back a tiny bit of what was taken away when they encoded it.

The over-reaching of the media companies to protect and even enhance its revenue streams by hanging all kinds DRM restrictions and gimmicks on products, and trying to force them on even hardware providers, has resulted in nothing but headaches for consumers, such as people who legally buy tunes for their iPods having more trouble using them than people who pirate the tunes.

I look forward to a consumer revolt when people have had enough of this bunk that DRM gets thrown into the garbage bin where it belongs, and all use is fair use except resale of copies for profit.

At-Large Recorder 2.0

http://www.applian.com/at-large-recorder/index.php

Now works with ALL Slingboxes, player software & firmware. 

Might be more useful than Clip+Sling if it works......

NigelS