Macworld: SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone Demo Video
The fine folks at Sling were kind enough to give TiPb a demo of their soon-to-be submitted to the Apple iTunes App Store SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone client and it looked all shades of sweet. In addition to great H.264 quality and video overlays, they went all the way and implemented “swipe to change channels”. We. Want. This. Now.
Watch the video for the full on demo, and let us (and Sling, and Apple) know what you think.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I’ve been waiting for this forever. Only issue is that I have already purchased the sling mobile for winmo back in the day. I should at least get a discount, but I’m pretty confident that won’t happen.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:34 am
I want buy one, but how much
January 7th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Been waiting a long time for this as well. Nice work on getting an exclusive demo of it! You’re the only one of all the major blogs that I subscribe to.
Pricing is tricky. They’d love to price it at $29.99 like they have with other mobile platforms, but as you know with any apps that have been ported over to the iPhone platform, is that the price is always lower, because of the extreme competitive pricing standard on the App Store.
I can’t imagine the app would be more than $20, and could be $15, but no lower than $10. We can thank Apple and the beauty of active markets for getting such great prices on the App Store.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Can’t wait for this. A useful (even if extremely lazy and slow) feature of this will be iPhone remote control of my TV!
January 7th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Been waiting, most patiently, for this. I too had paid for the WinMo version that I used on my PoC Moto Q, but when I broke my contract to get out from under that terrible phone and got the iPhone instead, I lost my SlingStream….I want it!!!
January 7th, 2009 at 7:47 am
If Apple kills this for any reason then that will be a shame and just prove there are serious issues with the app store. This looks awesome.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Could take it or leave it. Don’t have time for it when I’m mobile, and I have a TV when I’m at home.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Ok for those of us who have SlingBoxes…this is a gift from heaven. If you use your I Phone as a time killer or entertainment feature, this is it. Orb doesn’t work for me because I don’t have the external TV tuner…that what I got the Sling for. They need to hurry up with this.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
this looks brilliant, let’s hope the app store aprove. It would be cool led next to the pool catching up on the football while the wife reads LOL.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Any idea when this app will be released?
January 7th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Wow this looks awesome I hope it gets approved and makes it’s way to the app store.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
didn’t know this was in such high demand
January 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Cool!! I can’t wait for this App. I have been waiting for this since July 11, 2008. I will pay $100 for it now!!!! Thanks for the video Sena
January 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
plss…..I have been waiting for this apple and sling
January 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
dude if this pops up in the app store not only am i buying it. that same day im ordering a tivo and a sling box
January 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I can’t wait for this to be available. I will buy it as soon as it appears in the App Store
January 7th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
If you don’t have a Slingbox but want the “remote TV” functionality the Orb could be a good alternative. I have Orb Live (paired with $50-ish TV Tuner card on a PC) and it works great via Wi-Fi or 3G. It’s a much cheaper solution then the Slingbox. And you can do a lot more remotely from iPhone with Orb then “just” watch or record live TV. Namely, play and record internet TV/radio streams, play any music files stored on your PC (including iTunes library), browse all pictures or even read the documents (Word files, PDFs etc).
January 7th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I’ve been waiting for this as well! In fact, I purchased my Sling Box Pro on the bet that they WOULD eventually release an iPhone version. I only had to wait about a year!
BTW, I fully expect this to be priced at the same price as the other mobile versions…. $29.99.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
The video says ‘iphone’ but refers to wi-fi and 3g networks, will it work with the ipod touch? Lets hope …
January 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Will it be available to worldwide? Just hoping.
January 17th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I’d buy it immediately. Worked great on the Palm. What’s taking sooooo long??
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I’ll be buying this the day it’s released and I almost don’t care how much it is. I just migrated from a WinMo phone (Samsung Blackjack II) and the slingplayer was my most used app on that phone. I’m getting the shakes from not having my slingbox fix. Come on sling and Apple!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
OMG HURRY UP AND COME OUT WITH THIS. I CAN’T WAIT!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I will buy it immediatly once released, regarding people comparing sling to orb , there no comparison, orb works only for either antenna or cable , it doesn’t work for satelite free to air which slingplayer will. Can’t waittttttttttt , hurry up please