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Broadband Internet access is quickly becoming commonplace in many US homes. It is also common to find that each member of the family has his/her own desktop computer or laptop, which means that one Internet connection makes it inconvenient when multiple users are vying for access at the same time.
Networking computers together solves the problem of having multiple users and limited resources. In a computer network, all computers have the ability to share one Internet connection, which ends the conflicts of who gets to use the Internet at any given time. Networks also allow things like printers, files, music, and scanners to be available for anyone on the network to use. As an example, a home network would only need one printer, and everyone on the network can use it as if it were connected to his or her computer.
In days past, all computers were networked together with wired connections. Unfortunately, for many home users, stringing network cable from room to room can be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Today, computer networks can be created wirelessly (without cables) which means that a wireless network can be easily integrated into any home. Wireless also allows …
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The Slingbox can be protected by password to keep out unwanted viewers. It is possible to set 2 different passwords into the Slingbox.
Administrator Password - Main password that allows the user to change or modify Slingbox settings. It is recommended to keep this password private.
Basic Password - Password allows user to connect and stream video from Slingbox, but not have access to change or modify Slingbox settings.
To set a password on the Slingbox, the easiest way is from within the SlingPlayer application. Follow these steps:
- Click on menu item “View –> Slingbox Directory”
- Highlight your Slingbox in the list and click “Edit Properties” on the right side of the screen.
- If prompted for a password, enter the admin password and click “Next”. Otherwise, if not prompted go on to step 4.
- Click on the tab titled “Slingbox Configuration”.
- Click the “Change” button in the box labled “Slingbox Settings”.
- Click “Next” to load your settings.
- Enter your administrator password if you are prompted to do so.
- You are prompted to name your Slingbox. If you are happy with the existing name, click “Next”. If not, enter a new name and click “Next”.
- You are now on the password set/change screen. The Slingbox uses two passwords. Enter the new password(s) …
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Slingbox transports Broadband
Nashua Telegraph, NH - Sep 4, 2005
Yet that is all the Slingbox does: This $250 device from San Mateo, Calif., start-up Sling Media (www.slingmedia.com) essentially turns your Internet …
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Editor’s note: David Spitz is president, CEO and co-founder of Raleigh-based TxFS, Inc. (www.txfs.com), which offers a direct-to-bill payment network allowing consumers to charge purchases of digital content to their Internet service provider bill.
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Missing audiences may be lost in cyberspace
Hollywood Reporter, United States - Aug 25, 2005
… Looking ahead, the liberation of the audience promises to continue. Last month, for instance, the new Slingbox gadget was announced. …
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A HANDFUL of techies based in the India design centre, along with their US counterparts, have developed an innovative convergence device. This takes your drawing room experience virtually anywhere, allowing access to your favourite local channel seamlessly over the Internet.
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For the past three weeks I’ve been hotel-hopping in Australia and New Zealand, where on arrival at each new loc-ation, two of the key questions have been: ‘How do you control the TV?’, and: ‘Is there internet access?’.
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I recently set up my slingbox, attached to three Sony DVP-CX777 ES Changers. (1200 DVD capacity). The changers are managed by an Escient DVDM-100 box, which catalogs our discs, and allows us to access any of our movies by title via web interface. The movies are normally routed to a projector in our home theater, a widescreen (16:9) Optoma H79.
For the kids’ videos, as well as for convenience, I’m distributing the video feed in our house in two ways. An analog modulator and putting it on the cable TV line, as well as the slingbox. Everything is going well, except that SlingPlayer does not perform an anamorphic stretch for widescreen material.
It’s difficult to get the slingbox to switch the changers to 4:3 letterbox mode, and it gets to be a little tedious to switch back and forth when viewing in the theater and then on a laptop. There is also a little bit quality hit to go to letterbox mode before transmission (less lines of resolution to carry the image), although this can’t be my strongest complaint, because I’m willing to go to an analog modulator or a 1.5Mb/s video stream for distribution.
So my questions are:
1) Has anyone heard if Sling Media is going to upgrade their player for anamorphic stretch (effectively turning it into a 16:9 video monitor)?
2) Does anyone know of a box that will perform the video stretch / letterboxing on the baseband NTSC video signal just before input to slingbox? (Quality hit, but at least I don’t have to try to switch the changers to 4:3 mode every time I’m on a laptop).
3) Does anyone know if the Skipjam PC viewer allows anamorphic stretch? (Should I decide to switch to the Skipjam product).
Thanks!
Pat
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