Slingbox puts Sky on Iphone
VIDEO STREAMING specialist, Sling Media, will soon be letting Iphone and Ipod Touch users take their Sky boxes with them when they're out and about. But not until Apple has given the company its official blessing.
The Sling Player Mobile software, which talks over a Wi-fi network to a Sling Player box attached to your Sky box, allows you to watch live programmes and recorded content (if you have Sky+). It also allows you to set up recordings and manage content using the EPG.
The software is currently in a pre-alpha, proof-of-concept stage according to Engadget.
But, as Sling Media isn't part of the Apple Developer Program as yet, and the company has made it clear that it's not keen to risk the wrath of Steve Almighty by putting the prog out there as a Jailbreak install, we could have a bit of a wait on our hands before we are wirelessly watching brand new episodes of Lost on the bog. ยต
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What has this got to do with Sky? A SlingBox can happily send and control pretty much any STB, Tivo, or whatever. This article makes it sound like it will only work with Sky boxes, which is rather misleading. It might also be worth pointing out that UK Slingboxes have Freeview built in, so you don't actually need an STB at all...
So we'll see TV all over the place? 
Will the content owners stand by and allow "out of geography" distribution as more devices can access the Slingbox?

The same rights owners have been litigious in the past.
...to all the rights issues. Limit the functionality to working on the same local network. If the range of use is reduced, rights holders won't have any grounds to complain.

And then you really could watch Lost while straddling the bog...