New Slingbox Pro streams HDTV…Sort of
Sling Media announced their new lineup of Slingboxes yesterday, including the Slingbox A/V, Slingbox Tuner, and Slingbox Pro.
The Pro unit includes the ability to now stream HDTV. You may be wondering how it can possibly stream HDTV with the bandwidth requirements. Therein lies the catch…it doesn’t actually stream the full HDTV resolution video. Instead, it downconverts to 640×480 resolution. Still, the ability to view your HDTV content remotely is a nice new feature. My only beef with the whole thing is that the Pro costs $249, but in order to get the HD functionality you have to purchase a separate $49 dongle that is not included.
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