A working demo in a controlled environment at a trade show and a fully functional client are very different things. It's likely going to be second half of the year (late Q3 or early Q4 is my bet).

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Hey Dave,

I'm optimistic it will be this year! :)

I'd rather underpromise or get people to set lower expectations and have them be pleasantly surprised by a release earlier than expected rather then set the expectation of "soon" and not have it happen until "later."

:)

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SlingMaster said: I was hoping someone would say oh it's going to be Friday.....   Just thought since they had a working unit at the show that after a couple months it might be ready to go.   Sometime this year could be 12/31/08   

Even if we offered up a pre-release Blackberry client today, you wouldn't have the RIM firmware necessary to make it work. It's a collaborative and iterative process, and unfortunately we don't have a firm target date yet. Though, we do feel confident we'll get it out the door this year.

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Zatz Not Funny!

To the person who is jealous because his friend with WinMobile has SlingPlayer: Move to Windows Mobile. :)

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gibbs0828 said: I actually just posted a thread on this-- it's getting rediculous. My friend made me so jealous! The first day he set up his Slingbox he had it up and running on his Windows Mobile Phone. Not fair.

I wouldnt be jealous of a friend running WinMO. 

The Blackberry client is still in development, we're working with RIM and waiting on the release of some dependencies. The best thing to do is to maintain a current beta profile at https://beta.slingmedia.com/ and make sure to list the Blackberry under the Test Platforms so that it comes up when we begin recruiting testers. We're as eager to get this released as you are to have it, so it will be released to testing as soon as we're permitted.

-MegaZone, Sling Media Beta Manager
Slingbox Pro, HD Connect, TiVo Series3, TiVo Pioneer DVR-810H, SPM Treo 680, SP WinXP
(I also run GizmoLovers.com)

This policy that SlingMedia has adopted is one of the worst I've ever seen!! All they ever tell their customers is "wait", "any day now", "it's working, see, but you can't have it", "no we're not telling you anything". You're doing nothing but frustrating all your current users and potential customer base. The minute a comparable product is on the market, you bet you'll lose a ton of customers. I hate to see such a great product blown by the PR department... WEAK!!!! TALK TO US!!! TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON!!!! If it's going to be another year, just get the guts to tell us. Honestly, this is getting ridiculous.

I totally understand where you're coming from. Your example of Apple is one reason why I have a Blackberry and don't support Apple's business model / tactics. Just venting after waiting so long for the SlingCatcher too... found another solution that isn't as slick, but works... now it's harder to justify the SlingCatcher to the boss now :( Working on that one ;o)