Satellite TV service providers have entered in a long term partnership deal with Sling Media to offer technologically superior services for its subscribers. Sling Media technologies will allow you to view your favorite television program even when you are not in your home. This means that you can watch your preferred TV shows wither on your smartphone or in your notebook.

About Sling Media

This one is a leading manufacturer innovative hardware products whose corporate headquarter is based in Foster City, California. The company came into existence in the year 2004 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. Their first product is Slingbox and it was launched in mid 2005 throughout the United States. The product become instant hit among customers and it also won the Emmy award. In fact this device has enabled the people to watch TV in great style. Seeing the popularity of Slingbox, Sling Media has introduced several variants of their flagship product. Some of them are Slingbox Solo, Slingbox 700U and Slingbox PRO-HD (High Definition). You can get any of these Slingbox models from your satellite TV service provider.

About Slingbox

The device is capable of streaming live and recorded television contents via internet. The technology that has been deployed in Slingbox devices is referred as Placeshifting. This is the technology that is allowing you to watch live or recorded television show on your notebook or smartphone. All you need to do is to connect the Slingbox device to your existing DVR satellite TV receiver by either by using S-Video cable, composite cable, coaxial cable or component cable. The video signals from the DVR get transcoded in Slingbox into MPEG 4. The high quality MPEG 4 signals is then transmitted to the home network router. And from there the TV content is streamed over to the mobile device. To watch the streamed TV content, you need to have the SlingPlayer software on your mobile smartphone.

About SlingPlayer

This proprietary media player software of Sling Media needs to be installed on the smartphones to watch the streaming television contents. The software is available on for the Windows and Macintosh platform. It is currently not available for Linux or any other open source platform. This software is available on various mobile platforms such as Symbian, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and iPhone OS. All you need to do is to get the software based on the platform of your smartphone and enjoy your preferred TV show anytime and anywhere you want.

To offer you never before TV viewing experience, satellite TV service providers have decided to enter in a long term partnership agreement with one of the leading entertainment solution provider company, Sling Media. Imagine you are going out for an important business trip and on that same day one of the biggest collage football event is about to take place on the same day. You must be thinking that you will surely miss the game.

If you are really thinking of missing the game then you are totally wrong. You will not be missing any of preferred sporting events if you have Slingbox device in your home. You will be able to watch the entire game on your notebook or smartphone from any place.