Back in January, we mentioned that
SlingMedia had announced new software that would add mobile phone capability to its remote video-access product, Slingbox.The whole idea of the mobile ofrfering would be to allow users to watch their home television output anywhere in the world -- and not just pre-recorded content on a networked device; live stuff too.
After only a year on sale, the Slingbox now ranks among the top 100 most popular electronics products on Amazon.com, so the company is naturally keen to keep up the momentum, and Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch was recently given a demonstration of the new mobile app by SlingMedia co-founder and CEO Blake Krikorian, on a Sprint 6700 smart phone.
The new software should be available "any day now", but Krikorian is keen to make sure SlingMedia's concept of 'place-shifting' doesn't fall into the trap he believes TiVo landed in, mistaking the core feature of the product (time-shifting) as the product itself.
"TiVo had religious issues," he said. "A technologist has to realize that one day what's been built is a product, the next day it's a feature."
