Review: Slingcatcher

Monday, December 29th, 2008

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slingcatcher

This review comes from DemystifyingDigital.com and was written by Ted Kritsonis

Sling Media’s Slingcatcher has been touted as the device that would give users the opposite benefit of the company’s popular Slingbox products. Rather than “placeshift” a TV signal to be viewed remotely on a computer, the Slingcatcher would allow a TV to display content from a computer.

If you have a lot of cool video content on your computer that you’re dying to display on a big screen TV, Slingcatcher sounds like a pretty neat idea. I recently got a chance to put the device to the test.Sling Media’s Slingcatcher has been touted as the device that would give users the opposite benefit of the company’s popular Slingbox products. Rather than “placeshift” a TV signal to be viewed remotely on a computer, the Slingcatcher would allow a TV to display content from a computer.

If you have a lot of cool video content on your computer that you’re dying to display on a big screen TV, Slingcatcher sounds like a pretty neat idea. I recently got a chance to put the device to the test.

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