I don't know how many of you have heard about that brand new Slingbox technology http://www.slingmedia.com/slingbox/ but I think it is ******* amazing. Just found out about it tonight from a friend.

You plug it into your cable box, television set, TIVO, whatever...connect it to your router, and it broadcasts the signal over your Internet connection at home or wherever. Then you log into your slingbox from any computer with an Internet connection...and you can watch and remotely control whatever device you have hooked up to the slingbox. It is just crazy ****. You can remotely control your TV from hundreds of miles away.

The thing costs a mere $250 retail and there's no subscription or anything. It works right off your Internet connection.

So if you had a carputer installed in your RX-8 and the ability to log online from your car (which you can already do by using your cell phone as a modem), you could watch cable tv in your car.

This would be yet another reason to install a carputer in your RX-8.

There are just shitloads of possibilities with this thing. I am truly impressed for once.

****...with a carputer and a cell phone, I could friggin live in my RX-8.

 

too bad it needs:

Network

* Cable or DSL Modem (Out-of-Home viewing)
* 256Kbps Upstream Speed (Higher Upstream Speed Recommended)

You won't have those speeds on the go until Wi-Max or its successor comes around and infiltrates the market

 

remote ip might work...

 

I guess you are right. It'd probably perform like **** over a regular modem connection. Oh well.

For the meantime, I guess you could just install a wireless card in your carputer, then drive around looking for a small business office with an open router broadcasting far enough for your card to piggyback on their network, and then do everything from there.


Yea...right.

 

I wonder how long Slingbox will stay around before someone gives them crap about "rebroadcasting". For sports there could be some sensitive black out laws in some locations.

Also 256kbps uplink is got to be bare minimum. Even with MPEG4, you are going to need 1Mbps before you get a really good picture and at least 512kbps to get something respectible.

-Mr. Wigggles

 

Most, if not all, dsl/cable services will not sell you the bandwidth to upload at 1 mbit. You'd need a T1 for upload speeds like that. This sounds great but I think that upload speeds are going to be to high for most users. Also, the fact that you'll be using all your bandwidth 24/7 is not going to over well for most people.

 

This would be great if you have a laptop with wifi and wanted to watch tv anywhere in the house over your LAN.

 

I think in a year's time or so ...most broadband providers will be dishing out 1mbps upstream standard.
I mean look at how fast we went from 1.5 mbps to 8 mbps downstream.

It's just a matter of time.