Sling Community - Channel Beta

SP Mac 1.0.8 and Quick Beta News

Sharon R. — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:29:44 GMT

SlingPlayer for Mac 1.0.8 Released Publicly Today Thank you to those of you who participated in the private beta and also to Matt for the excellent write-up ! Sling Media Hearts the EU We're looking for a couple more testers: If you have a Slingbox in the EU, and you’d like to be a part of a private beta test for SlingPlayer for Windows: 1. Register at beta.slingmedia.com 2. Add your Slingbox information (instructions are on the site) 3. Then email us: To: beta @ slingmedia . com Subject: EU Beta Candidate for SP Win 2.0 You must be able to communicate in written English for the beta program. Please note if you’re fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and/or German. Re: Our iPhone app – We’re waiting on Apple, who qualifies all apps before they get posted to the App store. Sling on!

SPM BlackBerry v1.0 is LIVE

Sharon R. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:21:57 GMT

SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry v1.0 is now a fully supported product, yay! Thank you to all of you who contributed your time and suggestions to get us to this celebratory milestone. If you have a Slingbox and a supported BlackBerry device*, you can try the full version for free for 30 days. Point your BlackBerry browser to downloads.slingmedia.com. If you have a supported device with current firmware, you'll be able to download. If the firmware is out of date, you'll get a warning message. *See http://downloads.slingmedia.com/get/spm-blackberry-us.html for full details. CHEERS EVERYONE - THANK YOU FROM THE SPM BLACKBERRY TEAM !!

SlingPlayer for Windows v2.0.2 is Live !

Sharon R. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:08:01 GMT

In case you missed it, yesterday we rolled out a minor update to the PC client, which is bundled with the latest Slingbox firmware. What's New: The Encoding tab has expanded options. The UI will go through additional changes--this is just step one. To check it out, click on the VGA/QVGA mini-icon, lower left just above the Play/Pause button. The Pro-HD firmware includes a fix to allow HD streaming to a SlingCatcher (which will require new Catcher firmware, due out "soon"). Critical fixes: Stream rate slows until it crashes. FIXED http://www.slingcommunity.com/forum/thread/24708/ Some Vista Acer customers had installation issues FIXED What you need to know: For those who want to switch back and forth between connecting via the Slingbox ID and Direct IP, you'll now need to Add a second entry in your Slingbox Directory. In other words, you'll have two entries to the same Slingbox: one via the SID, one via IP. There's a new issue that some of you may see in which the remote control flashes on/off. We're currently working on a fix. Download: http://downloads.slingmedia.com/ Sling on!

Sling Accounts silent update tonight

Sharon R. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:13:41 GMT

Sling Accounts will be offline for approximately 45 minutes tonight, beginning midnight Pacific Standard Time, to clean up the duplicate Slingbox entries that some people are seeing. During this wee window, your Slingbox will still automatically appear in the Slingbox Directory if it's on the same network as your PC (ie LAN). If you're not (ie WAN), you'll have to wait it out (unless you happen to use SPM BlackBerry and know your Slingbox ID). We don't expect outages like this often. Thanks in advance for your patience!

SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry Public Beta Released

MegaZone — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:24:10 GMT

As we announced back on December 18th, we planned to have SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry in public beta for 12/30. It is 12/30 right now, at least on the east coast, and we've uploaded SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry v0.5.0.3 and made it available to the public. Users can visit http://mobile.slingmedia.com/ from their BlackBerry to install the software. (We're not making a desktop installer available as part of the public beta at this time to reduce the support issues, OTA installs only.) As previously announced, the officially supported devices are the Pearl 8120, Pearl Flip 8220, Curve 8320, 8820, Curve 8900, and Bold 9000. Unofficially the EDGE-only 8100, 8110, 8300, 8310, 8800, and 8810 will also work. All models must have firmware revision 4.5 or later to install SlingPlayer Mobile. Sharon and I will be working the Sling Media booth at CES next week. So if any of you will be attending feel free to drop by and say hello. I believe we're currently scheduled for the afternoons of the first, third, and fourth days, and the morning of the second.

SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile Updated

MegaZone — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:20:32 GMT

Sling Media today released updated versions of SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile Professional (touch-screen) and Standard (non-touch-screen) devices. The primary feature addition in the new release is official support for new screen resolutions: 800x480, 640x480, 400x240, and 320x320. 15 new phone models are officially supported: Sprint Treo 800w Sony Ericsson X1 Palm Treo Pro Sprint HTC Touch Diamond Sprint HTC Touch Pro Verizon HTC Touch Pro Verizon Samsung Saga Verizon Samsung Omnia AT&T LG Incite AT&T HTC Fuze AT&T Samsung Epix HP iPAQ 910 AT&T Pantech Duo Sprint Samsung ACE Verizon XV6900 Other devices which share these resolutions, such as the HTC Touch HD, should also work with the new release. The new WM Professional version is 1.6.0.111 and the new WM Standard version is 1.6.0.59. SlingPlayer Mobile is available as a free 30-day trial so new users can ‘try before they buy’. As always, we officially support phones with 3G and/or WiFi, but it may run, unofficially, on EDGE-only devices. But new screen resolutions aren't the only additions: • Updated channel logos in US and UK • Minor/major channel number support (using the ‘.’ IR command, eg channel 89.1, 89.2, etc) for ATSC and QAM • Active Sync install...