Sling Your Slingbox

Do you think the Slingbox has a future? I don’t. How important is it to anyone to watch their cable or satellite television on their cellphone or PC when they are not Home? Additionally, most media companies already stream their content over the Internet already. For instance, right now I am streaming XM Radio from the Internet through my PC. I have a radio receiver but since I have an account I am also able to use the Internet streaming service that XM provides for me. I don’t need to reroute it myself using something like a Slingbox. If I want, I can watch CNN, Fox, or Bloomberg news stories from their websites. It just seems to me that this is a device with no real market or future. Present technology already makes it obsolete. It just seems like another misdirected Internet product. Its product lifecycle is over before it began.

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