not a part

i know, right. terrible.

i put part one down there, and rather than continuing like a decent person should,
i talk about something i want.

it's this thing

now it's not that i'm so crazy about tv or anything, but this is such an awesome thing.
truly.

you plug it into your cable box/dvr/whatever and your high-speed internet connection, by way of a router is fine, of course.

then, while anywhere in the world that you have a high-speed connection,
you can watch any channels you can watch at home and control the box in the
same way as if you were sitting in your living room.
whether you're in a hotel in Australia, or in your back yard; at your friends and you all want to watch something you have on your DVR.

wow.

now, i've never used one, so i don't have any personal experience with this thing, but i've yet to see a bad review. the only negative at this point is the lack of a Mac OS X compatible client.
however, at MacWorld a couple weeks ago, Sling announced that one would be available in the 2nd quarter of this year. sweet.

this thing has been around for a couple years now, and i've never been able to understand why it hasn't blown up in a massive way, considering the amount of tv watching that goes on.

it might have something to do with legal issues that could come up, but they've made it pretty far with nary a peep from "Those Who Like to Sue."

oh yeah - they call it place-shifting, like a dvr is time-shifting.
maybe that covers their asses?