EchoStar’s Sling Media invented a technology known as placeshifting. The inspiration for placeshifting came from the desire to watch home team baseball games while traveling for business. Placeshifting lets people catch their home team's game live, wherever they are. Their TV subscription service and associated content follows them wherever they have an Internet connection. Placeshifting is the viewing and listening to live, recorded, or stored media on a remote device over the Internet or a data network. Placeshifting allows consumers to watch their TV anywhere. Placeshifted content can be enjoyed in the home or away from home. Most consumers do both—placeshifting in and around their home where they do not have a TV, as well as away from their home—at their desk at work, at a café, or in their hotel room halfway around the world.
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Nothing is hotter than mobile right now. Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile software is compatible with the world’s most popular mobile devices, including smart phones and tablets. SlingPlayer Mobile extends your TV offering to the handset regardless of the consumer’s wireless carrier. Whether it’s a Sling-branded mobile app for our retail Slingbox customers, or an operator-branded mobile app for subscriber-based TV Everywhere solutions, the apps are ready to go and available through easily-accessed consumer services such as Apple's App Store and Google's Android Marketplace.
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EchoStar’s TV Everywhere solutions feature a powerful online program guide utilizing Sling Media’s SlingGuide software. The SlingGuide option enhances the way users browse, search, and discover their TV programming. And with our video portal solution, it’s all integrated. Internet streaming (over-the-top video), Internet viewing of placeshifted DVR content, VOD, and most importantly, live TV, are all wrapped into one powerful web destination that is branded for the operator.
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One of the most compelling features of our TV Everywhere solutions is the ability for the end user to access their DVR from anywhere in the world. In addition to watching and discovering live, recorded, and VOD programming, subscribers can also set timers, manage DVR schedules, and enjoy all of the DVR functionality offered through their Pay-TV operator, just as if they were sitting in their living room in front of the set-top box.