Placeshifting News

Sling Media to Demonstrate Award-Winning SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry at CES
Jan 4, 2008 – Sling Media has announced that for the first time the company will be showing their award-winning SlingPlayer Mobile software running on RIM BlackBerry® smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 7th - 10th.
News categories: Sling Media, CES2025, Placeshifting, Smartphone, Streaming

Sling Media Unveils Top-of-Line Slingbox PRO-HD
Jan 4, 2008 – Sling Media has announced its next generation Slingbox™ PRO-HD, a revolutionary new product that is capable of streaming HD content from a home television source to a laptop or desktop computer in and around the house.
News categories: Sling Media, Broadband, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Placeshifting, Smart Home, USA

ViXS Debuts New Series of Companion ICs for High-Speed Transcoding, Encoding and Decoding
Jan 3, 2008 – ViXS Systems has announced the introduction of a new family of XCode™ Companion ICs: the XCode™ 3106, 3108 and 3111. Key capabilities of the XCode™ 3106, 3108 and 3111 are MPEG2 to AVC transcoding, AVC to MPEG2 reverse transcoding, AVC/MPEG2 decoding and encoding.
News categories: ViXS Systems, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

2Wire Unveils the Industry's First Fully Integrated Solution for Digital Home Connectivity
Jan 2, 2008 – 2Wire has unveiled the industry's first fully integrated multi-service connectivity solution, with the addition of the new 2Wire intelligent home server, and the 2Wire Shifter™ remote video and multimedia access feature.
News categories: 2Wire, Broadband, CES2025, Digital TV, Gateway, Placeshifting, Smart Home

Place Shifting to be Free and Embedded, Dedicated Hardware Models to Fail
Dec 13, 2007 – Despite the push of hardware providers such as Sling and Monsoon Media, place shifting is destined to become an embedded functionality of home devices such as PCs and set-top boxes, leaving hardware player companies such as Sling scrambling for survival.
News categories: The Diffusion Group, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Placeshifting, Set Top Box, Streaming

Broadcom Delivers the Industry's Most Advanced Real-Time, High Definition Video/Audio Encoder/Transcoder Single-Chip Solution
Dec 3, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced its real-time, high definition (HD) encoder/transcoder solution. The new single-chip enables consumer devices to share a wide variety of video and audio content while maintaining a high degree of digital rights management and security
News categories: Broadcom, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

Horizon Semiconductors sets in motion next generation location-free universal HD-DVD/Blu-Ray™ decoder/transcoder SoC
Nov 19, 2007 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of a System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solution enabling dual channel native 1080/60p decoding, encoding and transcoding for next generation media players/recorders supporting the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray™ optical disc formats.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Orb Networks Hits 2 Million-User Mark
Nov 7, 2007 – Orb Networks has announced that it has passed two million registered users, just 2 weeks after hitting the 1 million mark.
News categories: Orb Networks, Digital TV, Media Player, Placeshifting, Streaming, Subscribers

SageTV Announces the Release of SageTV Media Server for Windows® Home Server
Nov 5, 2007 – SageTV LLC, a leading developer of digital entertainment and Placeshifting solutions, has announced the release of SageTV Media Server for Microsoft Windows Home Server.
News categories: SageTV, Digital TV, Home Server, Media Player, Placeshifting, Software, Streaming