Give me Sling or give me something

January 10, 2008 | In Technology | No Comments

I’ve been out of commission for the last few days with headaches and colds but that hasn’t stopped me from keeping an eye on things at the Consumer Electronics Show. The big CES event this year showed off a couple things that caught my eye.

SlingBox has been a product I’ve been interested in for a while. I intend on picking one up in the near future to hook up to my TiVo for viewing when I’m traveling. The SlingBox connects to your television or DVD player or TiVo and lets you watch and control it through your computer.

This year the fine SlingMedia folks came through with their long discussed SlingCatcher. This new product will let users send from the SlingBox to another television – taking the computer out of the equation. Interesting idea. I plan on using this to watch TiVo’d shows in another room. Good times.

Then there was the death of HD DVD. I saw it coming before it happened but I am disappointed it happened the way it did. I have some thoughts I’ll expand on it later, but I have to say – Warner Bros. doesn’t have the consumer in mind. It’s a money thing, and that’s a shame. Oh well. I still have a nice upconverting DVD player at least.