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Sling Releases Its First New Hardware In Years, The Slingbox 500 And Slingbox 350

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http://techcrunch.com – Years ago, Sling Media introduced a new line of products that were truly revolutionary. By encoding TV into digital streams and then slinging them over the Internet, Sling changed the way viewers thought about TV. With a Slingbox, users could for the first time take live TV with them, anywhere they went. It was beautiful. It had so much promise. Then Sling sold to EchoStar for a redonkulous amount of money, and the world moved on. Broadcasters began putting their own clips online so that users no longer had to “sling” or steal them. Cable companies began producing their own apps fo (IT news)

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