Slingbox how many users

The Roku app went offline three months beforehand, in September. Some Slingplayer apps are still currently available, including both the free and paid versions of the iPad app. Customers can also still access Slingplayer apps on Amazon Fire TV devices, as well as the free version of the Android smartphone app. More: ATSC 3. Source: Slingbox. She has a degree in Public Relations, with years of journalistic and copywriting experience.

When I die, I want the people from Slingbox to be my pallbearers so they can let me down one last time. The greatest invention no one ever heard of is dead. Long live the Slingbox. Ooh that's a shame, the end of an era. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. The new Slingbox M2 is designed to connect users to live and recorded TV content they already pay for on the multiple mobile devices they now use.

Sling Media says Slingbox M2 comes with a live vice setup service and free upgrades for the life of the product. In addition to moving programming to mobile devices, Slingbox M2 users who have Apple TV, Chromcast, Fire TV or Roku can use these services to shift content from their mobile devices to a second TV anywhere there is an Internet connection. When word got around that Slingbox manufacturing was coming to an end back in , Jason Krikorian posted on Facebook that he was "slightly bummed" about the news, but was likewise "amazed that the product was still being produced 10 years after the acquisition But more than three years later, it's now clear that the Slingbox's run is about to enter the home stretch.

Those who followed the Slingbox story from the beginning also know that the Krikorian brothers were inspired to create the Slingbox by their desire to watch the San Francisco Giants on TV when they were on the road.

And that technology, as it turns out, would come in supremely handy. But at this benefit concert they had a bunch of older bands and stuff and Billy Idol was on stage.

I don't think Billy Idol was very good, but there was this moment when he got this tremendous applause and I'm convinced he thought his career was possibly renewed at this show. Little did he know that it was this group of folks who were cheering that the Giants won the Series.

The Krikorian brothers' presumptive sports-oriented use-case was spot-on, as catching my favorite teams on the go was what drove my Slingbox usage — back when, you know, I was still using it at all. Back in , the Slingbox put a bit of a scare in the cable industry with respect to their video and broadband businesses.

Michael Harris, the founder of Cable Digital News sold to Light Reading in , had a prescient understanding of what the Slingbox would mean to the cable industry when it was first foisted upon the world.

The Slingbox, he wrote here on LR , "is yet another innovative 'over-the-top' product that leverages cable programming and the broadband IP pipe that will spook MSOs This technology, if bundled with digital cable and high-speed data service, could be a powerful consumer offering.

MSOs need to get their arms around the programming rights issues and figure out how to offer it directly to subscribers. The original Slingbox also caused the cable industry to worry about its weak upstream capacity and forced some network engineers to give more thought to the deployment of and support for DOCSIS 2. However, Slingbox never was adopted widely enough by consumers to create a huge, immediate issue for the cable industry.