Straight from the Lam’s Mouth

The modified mac mini that is designed for connecting to an HDTV has arrived. Rumors were flying almost a year ago about a product like the Apple TV coming out. I complained in a previous post about the idiocy of not releasing a revision of the Mac Mini that was designed for this exact purpose. I am still disappointed that this product does not have DVR / TiVo time-shifting functionality. In addition, it would be very nice to have Slingbox place-shifting functionality. If I didn't already have a more functional XBOX w/XBMC, I would definitely buy this product. The only reason I would consider it is because of the box's more powerful technical specs compared to the XBOX.

Wondering the quality of a slingbox? When you are locally on that network, for instance in the same house on wifi, the quality is about the same as an episode of tv that you download on bittorrent or itunes. When you are watch remotely over the internet, the quality is slightly better than youtube depending on your upstream. If you can upload around 60KB/s or more, then the quality is very watchable. If you want to watch remotely, then you need to open up the port on your router. Select port range forwarding. Open up port 5001 on the IP address of the slingbox. http://us.slingmedia.com/object/linksys_wrt54g.html?page=4 http://us.slingmedia.com/docs/IO/52/WRT54G_IF1-5_v2.jpg

I can't wait til I can get whatever service this is.

Fox.com reports that its canceling its once popular OC. Finale to air February 22. It was never the same after Marissa Cooper was killed off.

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