RE: PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How does it connect to Sky+ to control it - just IR or does it use the
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robust RF control method?

Oh, and what type of Internet connection do you have - this will obviously
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limit your data rate at work.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Philip Coombes
> Sent: 07 June 2006 10:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!
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> I picked one up yesterday from PC World, which hadn't been showing any
> stock all of last week but suddenly got some in and now everywhere
seems
> to have them.
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> I have to say I am rather impressed. It was easy to set up with Sky+
and
> supports pretty much all the functionality via the remote. Most of the
> config is a case of just choosing from presets so for me it was more
or
> less a case of choosing UK -> DVR -> Sky+ and job done. I was a
bit
> concerned that if someone else was watching Sky then it would be a bit
> useless but you can also configure the built in digital tuner and use
> that as a source as well, though you have to rerun the setup wizard to
> do so which results in having to re-enter some info twice. Not having
a
> freeview box or anything I was also surprised by the range and quality
> of the channels it picked up there.
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> The streaming quality is not at all bad, I think it was about
1000-1400
> Kbps at home, the only negatives being that I don't think the audio is
> perfectly sync'd to the video sometimes. I've just tried it for the
> first time outside of home and I'm getting 300-350 Kbps here. It
> stutters slightly now and again, especially when changing channels or
> using the remote but other than that it is perfectly watchable at
quite
> large resolutions and way way better than the sort of streaming video
> you get from 'live' websites, which was sort of what I was expecting.
I
> would imagine it will take a major hit if the kids are at home
> downloading music etc but so far so good.
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> If you're looking for something you can stick on at work to keep an
eye
> on the cricket or football over the next few weeks I would thoroughly
> recommend it! Now to see if I can get it running on my phone!
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> Phil
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> John Nye wrote:
> > So is anyone tempted or even better managed to get one of these
and
> tried
> > them out??
> >
> > None available in my neck of the woods......
> >
> > John
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> >> On Behalf Of Mark McCall
> >> Sent: 31 May 2006 16:41
> >> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] PAL Slingbox on Sale in the UK!
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> >> Nice little demo video of someone accessing their home
> >> TiVo/Slingbox setup
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