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✎ EN Watching uk tv abroad with a slingbox

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by mr_l_k, Sep 5, 2006.

  1. mr_l_k

    mr_l_k New Member

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    has anyone seen these?

    they are amazingly brilliant. basically you hook up your sky box to a slingbox which is then connected to the net - you can then watch your uk tv abroad....

    i´m in spain and a friend has one hooked up in the uk - the quality is brilliant - its dead weird watching soccer saturday live - i had to fly to germany and was able to watch the chelsea blackburn game at barcelona airport - very cool
     
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    I think Sony is going to provide a box doing the same.
     
  3. mr_l_k

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    its called location aware i think - but this is happening now ;)
     
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    I've been using an American Slingbox for the last 6 months and it is great! My parents bought it for themselves but really it's been a great thing for us since we don't actually have a TV here in Ireland. That being said when we were shopping for an ISP we struggled, as it seems most of them here do not supply unlimited bandwidth (and knowing that we had a slingbox to use that wasn't going to help us!). It will be interesting to see how streaming TV will start to affect (if at all) ISP's cost/service. Also i've been wondering how something like this affects a tv license in countries that require them. I was so excited to see a UK PAL version come out and have secretly been thinking how cool would it be to get one and have a friend hook it up at theirs for me. :D
     
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