It's said that TIVO (and similar DVR boxes from cable and satellite TV offerings) allow you to "time shift" your TV watching.
Instead of watching the 5:30 p.m. national news at 5:30, you program your TIVO/DVR to record it and watch it at 7:00 p.m. when you arrive home. Or you record all the Oprah shows each weekday and watch them on the weekend.
And instead of it taking 60 minutes to watch "60 Minutes", you can skip the commercials and watch the show in 40 minutes when you're ready.
"Pause Live TV", "Replay something you just saw on TV."
That technology allows people to "TIME Shift TV Viewing." Watch what you want when YOU want, not when the network wants you to watch.
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What if you could "PLACE Shift TV Viewing"?
You've got the cable box with DVR, you've set it to record "Desperate Housewives" and while you are on a vacation, stuck at the airport for an hour layover, you turn on your laptop computer, find a WiFi connection and, using an on-screen 'remote control', you browse through the channels to see what is NOW showing back home on your TV.
Nothing interests you so you punch the "LIST" button and see what's recorded on your DVR at home. Ahh, "Desperate Housewives." You click the remote and watch the recorded episode on your laptop...
"Buck Rogers"?? Nope "Sling Box." Available now.
You buy a brick-sized 'Sling Box' for about $250, hook it up to your cable/satellite receiver (perfectly legal), load up the software that comes with it on your laptop and you enter the world of "Place Shifting" your TV Viewing.
You do NOT have to be home in the family room to watch. You could be on the porch using your own wireless router -- or you could be in India or anywhere there's a broadband connection.
You have complete control over the cable/satellite/TIVO/DVR in your home from anywhere in the world (username and password protected, of course.)
Here\'s the story from Sling Media .
My friend here is an 'early adapter' and gave me a demo today. Pretty impressive.
Warning: You are ACTUALLY controlling what is happening on your cable box back home in real time. Please tell your wife that she may see the channels changing. The box hasn't gone wild. It's not haunted. No need to call the cable company...
"It's only me, honey, with the ultimate remote control, changing the channels on our home TV from from the Atlanta airport during my layover. I just had to watch that Diamondbacks game and it wasn't being broadcast in the Atlanta market."
Wonder if the divorce rate will be going even higher?
