Much like the TV Brick, the Slingbox enables you to ’sling’ or transfer any channel you get on cable TV or any program stored on your TiVo or PC to anywhere in the world.
Created by two San Francisco Giants fans who were sick of missing games when abroad, the Slingbox will be available in the US from July 1 retailing at $249.
TV Brick got there first and, being Japanese, is much cuter.
The TVBrick is able to stream programmes stored on its hard disk to PCs or an optional receiver device that plugs into a TV. In an attempt to appease TV broadcasters, the TVBrick is marketed at what manufacturer Nexedi calls ‘international families’ — families where one or more members live overseas. Nexedi has discovered that it is legal in many countries to redistribute TV programmes as long as it’s done on a private, personal basis although sending the material over the net is surely stretching that definition. Programme streams are password-protected so only family members can access them; in practice, owners are able to give the password to anyone.
See also: bittorrent.
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