Comments on: Sling Media announces iPhone SlingPlayer application, HD Mac streaming

By: SD5150

SD5150 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:01:32 +0000

How come when I had a HTC WM6 phone with sling player Cingular/ATT had NO problem with streaming via 3G/HSPDA/WiFi, but all of a sudden its on the iPhone and now its all bad?! We pay for UNLIMITED data, so leave us alone and let us use our Data we PAY for! I used to pay as much for a data plan that I did for regular Cable internet at my house, the cell companies need some heavy regulation and price fixing in the USA, we are so far behind other counties its embarrassing…

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:51:35 +0000

how is this within the sdk guidelines apples never going to approve it.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:36:42 +0000

Hell, I’ve even had pretty good success running the BlackBerry client on my 8320 with a strong EDGE connection.

P.S. BoyGenius, any word on the rumors going out there that the Curve 8900 will actually be released Feb. 11?

By: dand

dand — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:40:27 +0000

BG I swear I’m going to see social security run out of funds by the time the RIM sling player client is available en masse. Non of this beta `schtuff.

By: Kees

Kees — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:24:24 +0000

There’s a YouTube client on the phone. Bandwidth wise, this wouldn’t be much different.

By: TheCrow

TheCrow — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:22:21 +0000

@MackMan37 – what are you talking about that the Blackberry Slingbox client is WiFi only? It isn’t and this won’t be either. Get your facts straight.

By: NutritionN

NutritionN — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:08 +0000

keymaker, you must have run Sling Mobile on TMobile’s EDGE because it runs very well on any network even slightly faster than that.

By: drunknbass

drunknbass — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:22:05 +0000

This app and all clients ( mac, pc, mobile devices, etc. ) should be free to support sales on the required set top boxes. Charging for these features in addition to the box is BS.

By: Justin Cauchon

Justin Cauchon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:10:05 +0000

haha. I use SlingPlayer on my BlackBerry with 3G all the time and never have problems.

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:36:00 +0000

Have all you gone mad? Do you honestly think the client will be wifi only? Dream on. 3G and wifi people.

Also whoever said the Bold version was wifi only just lost major geek points.

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:34:29 +0000

Oh man, that would duck if it was Wifi only but I guess I’ll take that over nothing. At least I could watch more than now. Sprint so has an advantage over this. Plus why can all of ATT WM users do it and no Iphoners?!

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:32:04 +0000

YES!!!

By: keymaker

keymaker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:28:20 +0000

I really hope the hardware has improve cause i gave this a try a year ago on a windows mobile phone and the picture quality was not good at all it was also slow as F*ck, the concept was good but the experience has pretty bad

By: MackMan37

MackMan37 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:28:02 +0000

I would bet my life on wifi only. At&t does not want this to be a network hog. Not to mention sling just released the app for blackberry’s and guess what! its wifi only. I can not imagine at&t releasing this over their weak 3G network.

By: Civilian

Civilian — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:11:41 +0000

That is dope. If it’s wifi only that is not dope. Which it probably will be only wifi because slot of people will want this app. Damn

By: rj04

rj04 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:04:20 +0000

OMGWTFBBQ! Just when I was about to sell my Iphone they go and do this. If it only works with wifi that will suck but this is still great news. Now how about flash for the iphone.

By: Dax

Dax — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:57:25 +0000

That would be pretty sweet if they would have a pc app to stream from your pc over 3g too.