moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | Hmmmm....
Wonder what this will do to older Sling products and if they will be supported. |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
| As of right now it seems like it will be similar to the Dell / Alienware deal. EchoStar buys out Sling but it's yet to be seen if it will really change anything.
They did say they were keeping all of the Sling top-people in place, so as of right now i'm guessing there'll be very little change, if any. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
 ·Comcast
| possibilities
This is a smart move for them IF they can provide the services they intend to. If they're (echostar) just filling their portfolio looking to be bought out, well then they'll probably kill the sling as we knew it!
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| Nice
Could be very cool if they integrate this directly into their DVR's as the it's very easy to hook up the DVR to the internet with built in ethernet and homeplug.
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Mechano
join:2004-05-30
Antarctica | reply to moonpuppy
Re: Hmmmm....
Aren't they supposed to work by accessing the IP directly ?
I think you can bypass the servers if you have the IP or Dyndns in place...For future products....well, that may be another thing. |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
1 edit | reply to digiblur
Re: Nice
yeah, just imagine the pissed off people sitting in sunny florida trying to sling their snowy sat signal in stormy Kansas City. What a GREAT buy dish.
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Voodoo288
Common Sense Dictates
Premium
join:2002-08-19
Richmond, VA
clubs:
·Comcast
| said by inteller  :yeah, just imagine the pissed off people sitting in sunny florida trying to sling their snowy sat signal in stormy Kansas City. Snowy?? I have yet to see a snowy picture from my dish.
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voipguy
join:2006-05-31
Forest Hills, NY |  Let the lawsuits begin
One reason why Sling was never sued by programmers was that they didn't have any programming contracts to be held in violation of.
Echostar does.
Good luck! |
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koam
Pink Pecker
Premium
join:2000-08-16
East Puddle
clubs:
 ·Shoreham Telephone
 ·ViaTalk
 ·surpasshosting
| love the sling
Slingbox is a great product and the support and software are excellent. I've had one since it was first introduced.
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | They will be under the same umbrella but run seperate. Dish network and sling broadband. |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
| reply to Mechano
Re: Hmmmm....
said by Mechano :I think you can bypass the servers if you have the IP or Dyndns in place...For future products....well, that may be another thing. Huh? Slingplayers don't connect to any servers. They act as servers. If you're on the same LAN they directly connect. If you want to access it from the web, you need to open a port on your firewall and you access it via your WAN IP. |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | reply to Voodoo288
Re: Nice
i see, so your signal never jumps studders or flat out drops when there is weather in the area. lucky you.
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | I have no worse issues with Dish than my parents have with Time Warner. |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC | reply to inteller
Sure, when there's a really severe storm.
Still better than the general crap which is Comcast. (And that stutters or looks crappy ALL the time) |
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acs12798
join:2006-03-13
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Re: Hmmmm....
Hes talking about the Slingplayer DNS server. You know your SlingFinder ID? You Slingbox reports its IP address to a server Sling maintains. The Slingplayer connects to that server, and finds your IP from that Server based on your Slingfinder ID. He is talking about the ability to connect a slingbox via direct IP, which is also possible. |
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | reply to brooklynman4
Re: love the sling
I hope dish doesnt screw up a great product. Sling suceeded because they didn't get greedy and charge monthly fees. |
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RIPslingbox
@charter.com
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Re: Let the lawsuits begin
yup. the slingbox will die.. echostar is just throwing money away... potentially much more than just the acquisition price... unless there's some kind of sneaky under-the-table deal with programmers behind it all (e.g. buy sling, discontinue that dreadful box that's "ruining our business" and we'll double your money back in programming savings). |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to S_engineer
Re: possibilities
That is not Charlie Ergen's beat.
He realizes that big dish is dead for the little consumers, so he buys the content provider , the medium paths , and the end tools to get content to the subscribers in different ways.
Look at the history , Echostar he formed to send satellite content to little dish subscribers. He is partnering with many of the dsl providers , I wouldn't be to surprised to see him buy a chunk of earthlink for the carrier contracts they have in TW and some Comcast areas plus add clearwire. That gives him the ip medium. Now with sling it gives him the end point and the point to send it over to customers who are away from home.
I doubt they will change anything.
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Voodoo288
Common Sense Dictates
Premium
join:2002-08-19
Richmond, VA
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to inteller
Re: Nice
said by inteller :i see, so your signal never jumps studders or flat out drops when there is weather in the area. lucky you. I'm sorry, you said snowy, which is reminiscent of analog signals, not digital which carries the behavior mentioned above. As far as "weather" goes the dish only loses a signal during severe storms and very heavy rain. The average time frame I've lost sat signal is around 15 to 20 minutes in a rain/storm event. On the subject of reliability, currently this year my sat system has been down a total of a little over an hour, were my Comcast connection has been down approximately 15 hours. 12 of those were from a power failure from a lightning storm several weeks ago. My sat signal never went down in that storm.
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RoguePimp
join:2001-01-31
Phoenix, AZ
·Cox HSI
| The bigger picture
I think taht everybody is overlooking the bigger picture here. There was another press release today that went out after this one did. Charlie is looking at splitting up Echostar into 2 different companies. One the Dish core of subscribers and content. The other Echosphere, the uplinks and sattelites and set top box design group.
Sling would could go with either group for various reasons. |
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