: London Daily Mail: Flight 93 'was shot down' Sling Media and Symbian have partnered to bring mobile television to smartphones running the Symbian mobile operating system. Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile service lets users control their home personal video recorders remotely, allowing them to watch recorded shows; pause and rewind live TV; or even queue new recordings while away from home.
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Unlike DVBH or Media Flo technologies that stream live television broadcasts to a mobile phone, the Slingbox redirects, or "placeshifts," a single live TV stream from a standard or Freeview cable connection, cable box, satellite receiver or PVR to the viewer's 3G handset or PC. Any program viewers can watch on their home TV sets will be viewable through a Slingbox on supported Symbian smartphones. In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile lets users control their home personal video recorders to watch recorded shows, pause, and rewind live TV or even queue new recordings while away from home.
"The most amazing thing about the Sling Media solution is not that it's TV on your mobile phone. It's that it gives you the ability to put your hand into the screen of your phone and virtually reach into your living room and push your remote control," Avi Greengart, principal analyst of mobile devices for , told TechNewsWorld.
In other words, if you have ESPN on your cable line up at home, Slingbox lets you watch ESPN on your mobile device.
If you have a (Nasdaq: TIVO) device installed at home, then you can watch Sports Center highlights over and over again at will on your mobile device.
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