Grab yourself a Slingbox for £59.95 from eXpansys

Grab yourself a Slingbox for £59.95 from eXpansys

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Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 15:55

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My Slingbox is one of my favourite gadgets.

It hooks into my TV signal for freeview and sits inline to my Media Center and allows me to watch TV wherever I can get a reasonable data connection, be that from my Windows Mobile device, a PC or my Mac. Hotel TV = never again

Anyhow, I have the original Slingbox Classic (which has plenty of features), and I recently discovered that eXpansys are now offering the Slingbox for a bargain £59.95! Available on this page the Slingbox includes Windows and Mac clients for free, however the WinMo client (PPC and Smartphone versions available as well as Symbian) is an additional £20 purchase (albeit with a 30 day trial available)...

Monolithix has just got a Slingbox (and at this moment is probably watching it from the Netherlands - hi Mono!), so we'll also be chatting about 'placeshifting' tech in our next podcast.

Are you a Slingbox user? Share your experiences!

P

PS If you happen to have a eXpansys tenner off voucher lying around too, you're laughing!

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billingeuk

Jul 9 2008, 16:01

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To be honest I've given up on Expansys when it comes to ordering things, the last few orders I've placed, they've taken ages, so much so that on the last order when the site was saying expected in 1 day, then expected in 3 days, then expected in 1 day, then expected in 4 days, I cancelled the order, and don't think I'll try them again.

Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 16:06

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These are in stock now according to the site...

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Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 16:08

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First 2 people to reply to this message (requesting) get a £10 discount voucher...

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Jul 9 2008, 16:12

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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Jul 9 2008, 17:08)

First 2 people to reply to this message (requesting) get a £10 discount voucher...

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Sounds good to me!! Nice one!!

Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 16:14

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petec500 - PM.

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Jul 9 2008, 16:18

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Yes to voucher, please.

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Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 16:21

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Vouchers gone!

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Jul 9 2008, 16:44

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I have been umming & ahhing for the past few years to get this or not.

Does it supports subtitles?

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Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 16:48

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You mean on the inbuilt freeview? Unknown for sure, but I don't think so. If you're plugging it into Sky, it'll do whatever your Sky normally does!

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Jul 9 2008, 16:56

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How the hell do you remote control sky/freeview from a WinMo client?? :/

Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 17:03

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You get a virtual remote...?

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Jul 9 2008, 17:29

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D'oh. Brain freeze.

Isn't this going to get you into hot water with the bandwidth police pretty quickly tho? Or is it pretty frugal on that front?

Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 17:36

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Depends how often you use it I guess

I wouldn't say it's frugal, it'll max out whatever bandwidth you have (changing dynamically) to give you the best picture.

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Monolithix

Jul 9 2008, 19:29

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Works fine with my Sky box

Although i have 512kbps upload give or take. It's been working a treat, cant connect to it now though so it looks like my housemate may have unplugged it

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Jul 9 2008, 21:26

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Would one of these work with an iphone......streaming sky to my iphone?

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Paul (MVP)

Jul 9 2008, 21:32

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When they release the iPhone client (soon IIRC), then yeah.

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Jul 9 2008, 22:19

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Slingbox is still one of my favorite gadgets though I dont use it as often as I should. I still have the original "classic" box shown above. WinMo client is great as well. As Paul says, with a good connection.

One cool use is for the fact I dont have a TV in my bedroom. I use the slingbox on my laptop for the days I dont feel like getting out of bed!

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blackhorse

Jul 10 2008, 07:13

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QUOTE(encece @ Jul 9 2008, 23:19)

Slingbox is still one of my favorite gadgets though I dont use it as often as I should. I still have the original "classic" box shown above. WinMo client is great as well. As Paul says, with a good connection.

One cool use is for the fact I dont have a TV in my bedroom. I use the slingbox on my laptop for the days I dont feel like getting out of bed!

Would this work streaming to a PS3??
My thinking is i have sky downstairs and crap signal upstairs but if the PS3 can stream the content it may be worth a crack!

Paul (MVP)

Jul 10 2008, 08:59

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No, you need there to be a Slingplayer client for the platform you plan to use it on. PS3 = no client.

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