Slingbox - Place-shifting TV..

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Since the introduction of TiVO (aka PVR, Time-shifting TV, Personalise TV.. whatever-u-call-it), seem another revolution of watching TV is coming! I just came across a device called Slingbox, basically, in a simple terms, it allows you to watch TV anywhere in the world as long as you have broadband access. It currently only supports Windows only, Mac, Windows Mobile and Palm version is coming soon. So far the review on the Internet are blessing the device and think it has a great future ahead.

Personally, I think it is not very useful for me, as I don't watch TV in the office, however, as a HK people living in UK, I am fancying the idea of watching HK TV in UK, it is always a goal for me to stream TV from HK to UK, but so far it is not very successful, the weak point is always the hardware. Windows is not a good platform for this kind of processor intensive event, even I had built a dedicated one for this kind of TV streaming service. So, a purpose-bult device should behave better than that Windows box. But, as I am soon going back to HK, maybe I should buy one and ask one of my mates to stream TV back to HK? Gosh! TopGear in HK! Nice!

Or... Is it easier to BT?

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