Screenshots of SlingPlayer for the Mac

Will this function only with a SlingBox?

Sling Media has been selling new Slingboxes since September 27th with the Mac logo emblazened on the cartons, but the SlingPlayer Mac remains unavailable. More than a few Mac customers are quite miffed.

If the SlingPlayer Mac beta truly "runs like production software" why have they been selling these Slingboxes to Mac customers for almost a month now while still not providing the advertised Mac software?

Something doesn't add up here.

I had never heard of this device before reading the post. So I went to Circuit City last night and got one. Toataly cool! I visit China three times a year and I wish I had it before. But I mainly got it for my wife. Now she can clean up TiVo with the talk shows she records during the day. Seems she never has time to get cought up. Now she can on her lunch break at the office. She might even want to take a lunch break now.

I am a Mac user and can't wait for the beta to be released to the public. I have it installed on my BootCamp side though and works just fine.

Thanks TUAW for the post or I would have never known of Slingbox.

Why on earth won't someone post this thing?! I am sitting here in Paris with an old IBM thinkpad just so I can watch College Football and Lost. So what if its in Beta. ITs crashes every 1/2 hour - no problem.

Seriously Sling, what gives? You make your $ on Hardware anyway - why not even open Source your software?

BTW, if you have eyeTV you can use CyTV (google it) to broadcast your video. Its a hack and barely works but whatev.

If it's anything like the Windows version of the SlingPlayer, it'll be skinnable anyway, so you can make it look like whatever the heck you want it to look like.

That aside, the streaming control is great. The automatic setting is good, but it has one purpose: make the most of your available bandwidth. If that bandwidth changes, it will adjust, but it takes its sweet time in adjusting. For example, if you have an EV-DO wireless connection (Sprint/Verizon), and you go from an area of great (full 4 bar) coverage where you're getting 1Mbps or more of speed, down to an area that you're getting the "average" speed of 300-400Kbps, then back, it's going to be constantly adjusting.

But if you were to set it to always use 250-300Kbps, then it will stay at that setting the whole time. Admittedly, if your speed drops below what you set it to, you'll notice it, but at times I'd rather it be using a set amount anyway, so if there's more bandwidth available than that amount, it leaves something for me to use to browse the web, without significantly affecting the SlingPlayer.

Yes! I am an American living in Japan. I will buy one of these for each house so I can watch TV from the other place. Muwahahahaha!

I think by "iTunes 7 feel," he might just mean "ugly." Quite an accurate description, in such a case.

I use the Windows version on my MacBook and Parallels and it works great, but I rather run natively on OS X. I think the windows software looks much better than what I see here! Come on Sling poeple, surely you can do better!

Apparently "the source" gave him screen caps. And another difference, glossy versus flat.

look in the preferences toolbar up top. there's one called skins. so maybe he was looking at a different skin that actually did look like iTunes. ;-)