Re: PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!

[Philip Coombes <philip.coombes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It uses IR. It has a sort of odd arrangement of two wires terminating
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L shaped emitters, which you can put one overhanging above and one below=20
the remote sensor (or maybe both on the same side). It's hard to=20
describe but looking from the side it would be a bit like this

----------------------------ooooo     <----- Emitter
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D\  0
Sky+
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D/  0
----------------------------ooooo

where the 'o' are the emitters. They have a sticky tape thing on that=20
you can fasten them with but they seem to just rest there ok at the=20
moment. I'm guessing you can probably just make do with one of them but=20
as I was sneaking the box in SWMBO stealth mode I didn't have time for a=20
lot of fiddling. It works wells though, I've not had much joy with=20
remote IR control the the Sky box before.

I use it with a Telewest cable connection. I forget what the downstream=20
speed is as they keep changing it (4Mbs or something). However I think=20
it is limited to 384 Kbps upstream which Slingbox happily gobbles up. I=20
know that when I log into my ZoneMinder box to view video it pretty much=20
prevents any kind of interactive session over the same connection (as=20
all the upstream bandwidth is used) and this is the same. I somehow=20
suspect using the SlingBox and ZM over the same connection might be=20
ugly! But just the SlingBox is fine. I will try and do some experiments=20
with bandwidth to see what level you might need for acceptable viewing.

Phil

Paul Gale wrote:
> How does it connect to Sky+ to control it - just IR or does it use the
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re robust RF control method?
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> Oh, and what type of Internet connection do you have - this will
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y limit your data rate at work.
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> Paul.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf O=
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>> Philip Coombes
>> Sent: 07 June 2006 10:01
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!
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>> I picked one up yesterday from PC World, which hadn't been showing
any
>> stock all of last week but suddenly got some in and now everywhere
seems
>> to have them.
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>> I have to say I am rather impressed. It was easy to set up with
Sky+ and
>> supports pretty much all the functionality via the remote. Most of
the
>> config is a case of just choosing from presets so for me it was
more or
>> less a case of choosing UK -> DVR -> Sky+ and job done. I
was a bit
>> concerned that if someone else was watching Sky then it would be a
bit
>> useless but you can also configure the built in digital tuner and
use
>> that as a source as well, though you have to rerun the setup
wizard to
>> do so which results in having to re-enter some info twice. Not
having a
>> freeview box or anything I was also surprised by the range and
quality
>> of the channels it picked up there.
>>
>> The streaming quality is not at all bad, I think it was about
1000-1400
>> Kbps at home, the only negatives being that I don't think the
audio is
>> perfectly sync'd to the video sometimes. I've just tried it for
the
>> first time outside of home and I'm getting 300-350 Kbps here. It
>> stutters slightly now and again, especially when changing channels
or
>> using the remote but other than that it is perfectly watchable at
quite
>> large resolutions and way way better than the sort of streaming
video
>> you get from 'live' websites, which was sort of what I was
expecting. I
>> would imagine it will take a major hit if the kids are at home
>> downloading music etc but so far so good.
>>
>> If you're looking for something you can stick on at work to keep
an eye
>> on the cricket or football over the next few weeks I would
thoroughly
>> recommend it! Now to see if I can get it running on my phone!
>>
>> Phil
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>> John Nye wrote:
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>>> So is anyone tempted or even better managed to get one of
these and
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>>> None available in my neck of the woods......
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>>> John
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
>>>> On Behalf Of Mark McCall
>>>> Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41
>>>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nice little demo video of someone accessing their home
>>>> TiVo/Slingbox setup
>>>> from their smartphone...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-slingbox-
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