Now you can take what’s on your home TV anywhere you go and not get bitten by a single mosquito while you do it.
"Slingbox, which costs about $250, is from Sling Media Inc. of San Mateo, Calif.
Using a box connected to your home TV setup, it sends the signal out onto the
Internet, allowing you to watch a video stream of your home channels from any
Windows computer with broadband access and the Sling software installed…In addition to the signal, Slingbox sends along the TiVo controls I have at
home. ""This summer, I tried something new: killer threads — clothing that supposedly
zaps bugs before they can zap you. It’s called Buzz Off Insect Repellent
Apparel. You wear it instead of insecticide, although it may be more accurate to
say you become a walking tower of insecticide.
Rush Limbaugh took his new Slingbox to Europe recently and it worked beautifully.
Why am I not surprised that you’re a Rush dittohead?
Only you can answer that. But, yes, I’ve been a dittohead since April of ’92 🙂
it sends the signal out onto the Internet, allowing you to watch a video stream of your home channels from any Windows computer with broadband access and the Sling software installed.
Great. Another device to keep me from getting any work done.
“Sum folks call it a slingbox, mmm hmm . . .”
I could only see this being practical in two situations: (1) You’re in a foreign country and don’t want to miss an episode of an American show; or (2) you’re in some backwater place in America that has only one or three channels, and no satellite or cable. (But then such a place would be unlikely to have the broadband Internet access you’d need for Slingbox . . .)