The TiVo brought you "time shifting" and now Sling Media brings you "place shifting"

The idea is simple: hook up the little $200 box to your TiVo or your cable box and connect it to your home internet. Then, when you're out and about, just pull up the client software on your PDA or laptop. SlingBox's software will detect the quality and throughput of your connection and shoot you our a recompressed, digital stream of whatever analog signal you could be watching at home. It would even work on cellphones, they say, if the bandwidth were there (and it will be Real Soon Now) [Gizmodo].

This is a very intriguing concept. This needs to all be integrated into a single home device that stores all of your media, including audio, video and pictures, and allows you to navigate and view them anywhere. As soon as someone comes up with that device and makes it easy to use, I will buy it. 7:50:44 PM    comment []