Re: PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!

[Philip Coombes <philip.coombes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ooops, the picture didn't really work! They don't stick out that far,
just slightly overhang the edge of the box.

Curse variable width fonts!

Philip Coombes wrote:
> It uses IR. It has a sort of odd arrangement of two wires terminating
in
> L shaped emitters, which you can put one overhanging above and one
below
> the remote sensor (or maybe both on the same side). It's hard to
> describe but looking from the side it would be a bit like this
>
> ----------------------------ooooo     <----- Emitter
> =====================\  0
>                     Sky+
> =====================/  0
> ----------------------------ooooo
>
> where the 'o' are the emitters. They have a sticky tape thing on that
> you can fasten them with but they seem to just rest there ok at the
> moment. I'm guessing you can probably just make do with one of them
but
> as I was sneaking the box in SWMBO stealth mode I didn't have time for
a
> lot of fiddling. It works wells though, I've not had much joy with
> remote IR control the the Sky box before.
>
> I use it with a Telewest cable connection. I forget what the
downstream
> speed is as they keep changing it (4Mbs or something). However I think
> it is limited to 384 Kbps upstream which Slingbox happily gobbles up.
I
> know that when I log into my ZoneMinder box to view video it pretty
much
> prevents any kind of interactive session over the same connection (as
> all the upstream bandwidth is used) and this is the same. I somehow
> suspect using the SlingBox and ZM over the same connection might be
> ugly! But just the SlingBox is fine. I will try and do some
experiments
> 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 more robust RF control method?
>>
>> Oh, and what type of Internet connection do you have - this will
obviously limit your data rate at work.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>>> Philip Coombes
>>> Sent: 07 June 2006 10:01
>>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> John Nye wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> So is anyone tempted or even better managed to get one of
these and
>>>>
>>>>
>>> tried
>>>
>>>
>>>> them out??
>>>>
>>>> None available in my neck of the woods......
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----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-
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> mobile-on-the-
>>>> motorola-q
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>>>> http://tinyurl.com/oed2p
>>>>
>>>> M.
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