[chelsea.tone]

On MacRumours today...

MacRumors has heard that Sling Media's long awaited SlingPlayer Mobile may finally appear on the App Store tonight.

In addition to full support of current Slingboxes (PRO-HD and SOLO), legacy Slingboxes, which include the Classic, AV, and TUNER, will work with the application but will not be officially supported. However, the application will supposedly be limited to streaming only over Wi-Fi connections. Previous demonstrations of the application by Sling Media had promised EDGE and 3G support, however it appears as though this will not be the case. Pricing is said to be set at $29.99.

This information has been confirmed by multiple sources.

[Laggy]

UK Price: £17.99 apparently, should be out in the UK store tonight too..
I imagine it was always going to be set at $29.99 before it got limitied to Wi-Fi only (the same price as SlingPlayer Mobile on every other platform that supports 3G!) They should have cut the price of the app due to the functionality cut.

And it now magically works again with the old hardware! (I wonder how many Sling Media got to “upgrade” their boxes)
Without 3G though is it worth it - I probably am going to get it anyway as I would probably get a lot of use out of it just using WiFi, and I'm hoping the jailbreak app “VoipOver3G” might help with the 3G issue.

[Laggy]

Its now available in the UK app store.. To buy or not to buy....!

[TRIXXY DIXXY]

Works great over 3G using the voipover3G hack and with my Slingbox Classic

[hammerbenj]

please excuse my ignorance but 17.99 for an app...WOW.

what does this do as i have never heard of slingbox.

[wozwebs]

Anyone tried it with the Classic and a locked iPhone?

If works on 3G I may get and then unlock the phone

[chelsea.tone]

Originally Posted by hammerbenj

please excuse my ignorance but 17.99 for an app...WOW.

what does this do as i have never heard of slingbox.

www.slingmedia.com

[guvvie]

Originally Posted by wozwebs

Anyone tried it with the Classic and a locked iPhone?

If works on 3G I may get and then unlock the phone

By locked do you mean a phone that hasn't been jailbroken? If so, you need to jailbreak it if you want to use 3g, tried my classic on wifi and 3g and both work very well.

[iandrews]

I got it. I set it up and tried connecting over my home Wi-Fi last night. Got about 2 secs of picture, and then just sound. I tried disconnecting and re-connecting a few times, but whatever I did I only got sound. I then tried from my PC, and again only got sound. I pulled the plug on the Slingbox (twice), and tried again on the PC and still just sound. I need to reset the Sky box it's connected to, but couldn't do it last night as it was recording. So I hope the iPhone Slingplayer hasn't somehow buggered my Slingbox.

Ian.

[hutch]

Going to close this as already being discussed here http://www.avforums.com/forums/apple...er-iphone.html