Anyone thinking of buying a slingbox in the uk to use with your pocketpc be warned: slingbox have been dangling a $30 mobile version of the player in front of our noses for months with no sign of them actually selling it to anyone outside the us. They have a 30 day free trial that I used back in July time and expired four months ago and since then I have been waiting for them to start selling the damn thing.
I read now that after promising a mac version of the player last January they are only now getting around to previewing it.
Slingbox is a nice product but the company selling it has a death wish:
- slingbox only allows one client to connect. Not two, not five, just one. Slingbox client won't record programs. Slingbox is scared of US broadcasters.
- they slipped encryption into an upgrade to break third party recorder software so they are willing to pull mean DRM tricks that reduce functionality.
- slingbox announce products and take months to ship them. Apparently the boxes in the shops have a black sticker over a palm logo because they gave up trying to deliver.
- slingbox cannot organise selling software over the internet outside the US. What?
Since you are going to have to wait for slingplayer mobile while Sling discover paypal you might as well wait for a better product to come along.
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