Sling.com online video portal is open to the (US) public
Sling Media has officially launched its Sling.com online video portal, which we first checked out a few weeks ago while it was in beta. If you have a Slingbox, this site is all kinds of awesome, because it will allow you to watch live TV streaming from your home on any Windows PC with Firefox or Internet Explorer.
If you don't have a Slingbox, right now Sling.com is just another online video site that has an assortment of TV shows and movies from Fox, NBC, CBS, Sony, MGM, and web content providers like College Humor. Honestly, you can find most, but not all of the same content at Hulu.
Sling does plan to upgade its software so that Mac using Slingbox owners can also stream live TV. But right now anybody with a Flash enabled web browser running Windows, Mac, Linux or something else altogether can watch the web video streams from Sling Media's content partners - provided you're in the US. The content won't play outside of the region.
If you don't have a Slingbox, right now Sling.com is just another online video site that has an assortment of TV shows and movies from Fox, NBC, CBS, Sony, MGM, and web content providers like College Humor. Honestly, you can find most, but not all of the same content at Hulu.
Sling does plan to upgade its software so that Mac using Slingbox owners can also stream live TV. But right now anybody with a Flash enabled web browser running Windows, Mac, Linux or something else altogether can watch the web video streams from Sling Media's content partners - provided you're in the US. The content won't play outside of the region.













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Subscribe to commentsPyrofalloutNov 26th 2008 12:10PM
"We're sorry but Sling.com's Live TV is not currently supported for Mac."
what gives
MikeNov 26th 2008 12:33PM
RTFA
Ryan WorrellNov 26th 2008 1:09PM
but anybody with a Flash enabled web browser running Windows, Mac, Linux or something else altogether can watch the video streams - provided you're in the US
tells me that my flash enabled browser should work now. so...try RTFA yourself.
Brad LinderNov 26th 2008 1:19PM
Sorry, that was poorly worded. By video streams, I mean the *other* video streams from Hulu, NBC, CBS, etc. I've updated the post to make that point more clear.
PyrofalloutNov 26th 2008 2:50PM
Thanks for the clarification Brad! :-)
vdomehqNov 26th 2008 4:30PM
I recently starting using http://parkmytv.com which hosts my slingbox for me and I'm now getting MUCh better video quality since I'm not limited to my home DSL upload speeds and I pleasantly no longer annoy those at home watching TV while I'm switching channels on them while away :) I think they are in trials now but I was able to get an account early on...