You know a device is ground-breaking when it doesn't fit into any particular category. Slingbox might be called a personal video broadcast box. Or a cable TV-over-computer box. Or a junction box that ...

The latter company's Slingbox series of products have become the industry leader, popular enough for the start-up to be purchased by Dish Network parent EchoStar for a cool $380 m ...

Dish Network announced that it will permanently shut down all of Sling Media’s Slingbox services and end support for the devices in two years, at which point they’ll no longer work. On Monday, Dish’s ...

A few weeks back, word came out that Dish Network, who acquired Sling Media, the company behind the Slingbox, was going to discontinue this product. Slingbox was the great technology created to watch ...

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Slingbox, the ahead-of-its-time piece of hardware that enabled remote viewing of pay-TV signals, is headed for the scrapheap. The technology maker, acquired by Echostar and now owned by Dish Network, ...

It's been 10 years since Sling Media was founded, and here we stand with the fifth-generation Slingbox, the M1. Like all Slingboxes before it, the M1 can stream live and DVRed programs to your mobile ...

January 9, 2008 People who can’t bear to leave the lounge room because it means leaving their HD entertainment behind can now venture forth thanks to Sling Media, Inc., who have announced their next ...

Man’s second-best friend, television, gets out of the house more than ever. On a smartphone app or laptop, people watch sports on WatchESPN, movies and original programming on HBO Go or Netflix, and ...

Any Slingboxes still out there are about to get bricked. Dish Network this week emailed reminders to users of Sling Media’s Slingbox — the once-controversial devices that “place-shift” pay-TV services ...

Slingbox users who install the latest desktop SlingPlayer are in for an unpleasant surprise, as the interface is now cluttered with banner ads. The banner ads appear just below the video playback ...