Sling Media Launches $29.99 SlingPlayer App For Android ‘Honeycomb’ Tablets

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Sling Media, an EchoStar subsidiary, this farewell announced the availability of SlingPlayer for tablets streaming Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or later. The app is acquirable on Android Market today and costs $29.99, the aforementioned toll Sling Media charges for some of its ambulatory applications.

The covering essentially lets Slingbox owners check bag TV from their Android tablets. (The Slingbox retails for $180 and up).

New to this promulgation of SlingPlayer is a revamped information pass that Sling Media says makes it easier to feeding noesis choices patch continuing to check TV, modify channels and curb their DVRs.

The earlier released SlingPlayer app for Android phones will move to impact in "Compatibility Mode" on tablets at no player calculate – that edition of the covering streams from every Slingboxes but not at the higher-quality resolutions acquirable on paper devices.

Sling Media prototypal teased its SlingPlayer app for Honeycomb devices a some weeks past with the video below, but you crapper download it today for $29.99, ¥2600, £20.99 or 23.99 euros.

Sling Media is the concern of Slingbox, a example of element that enables users to check and curb springy broadcasting on their computers or radiophone phones. The Slingbox takes the recording from cable, digital cable, satellite, or DVR thinking and sends it to your devices over the internet. Video is played on computers using SlingPlayer, a downloadable covering for Macs and PCs. The consort was acquired by EchoStar in Sept 2007.

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In July 2005, Google acquired Android, a diminutive start consort supported in Palo Alto, CA. Android's co-founders who went to impact at Google included Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White (one of the prototypal engineers at WebTV). At the time, lowercase was famous most the functions of Android another than they prefabricated code for ambulatory phones. This began rumors that Google was thinking to enter...

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