SlingBox going PAL with DVB-T support?

by Ryan Block, posted May 28th 2006 at 8:36PM

Oh, just in case you weren't following along super closely this last week, the SlingPlayer update we covered that has some expanded PAL support options? Yeah, looks like that corresponds to the new UK PAL SlingBox we were expecting at some point, which according to SlingBox manual version 1.1.0.153 (PDF) will include broadcast DVB-T support, and is apparently due any time now. We'd like to take this opportunity to complain about not having integrated ATSC in our SlingBoxes, but we know it won't do us a ton of good until we get some more channels digitally broadcast anyway -- so to Europe we tip our hats, and say congratulations on your new gadget.

[Thanks, Dave]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio

Tags: pal, slingbox, uk

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Fabrizio @ May 29th 2006 5:14AM

Yeah, now they only need to broadcast some content we would want to go through all this trouble to watch remotely, or watch at all for that matter.

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Stephen Neal @ May 29th 2006 5:32AM

The UK Slingbox has already started shipping - and was on sale in PC World in the UK this weekend (although it isn't due to launch until the 31st May apparently)

I bought mine in Central London - and it does indeed have an integrated Freeview DVB-T as well as analogue PAL OTA tuner, alongside S-video/Composite AV inputs. It doesn't have SCART sockets on it (too big I guess), so doesn't have RGB input, but it does come with a SCART pass-through adaptor that allows you to tee-off a composite feed from a SCART daisy chain.

I'm happily slinging from Freeview and a Sky+ satellite PVR, to both a PDA and a Laptop.

Great product - very well designed and easy to use.

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noodle @ May 29th 2006 6:31AM

Uh, where is the mac support they promised?

Where is the palm support?

I won't buy one untill there is one...

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Asiaerotica_com @ May 29th 2006 4:14PM

Could they make the unit more slick looking ? It looks like a Bar of Gray Toblerone!

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John Visio MVP @ May 30th 2006 7:18AM

Where did you get the graphic?

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