{"id":43,"date":"2006-08-02T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/08\/02\/love-the-slingbox\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T16:16:06","slug":"love-the-slingbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/08\/02\/love-the-slingbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Love the Slingbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased a slingbox the other day and I must say that I&#8217;m hooked.\u00a0 What a great product for those that want to connect to their local TV channels while traveling on the road.\u00a0 Through the great use of the Internet, you can connect your computer, via a broadband connection, to your cable box at home &#8211; enabling access to TV watching.<\/p>\n<p>While the quality of the picture could improve, the product is impressive:<\/p>\n<p>1) simple out of the box experience.\u00a0 The setup of the hardware is down right simple.\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t have your Internet router next to your cable box (or cable outlet), you can purchase\u00a0their SlingLink product which connects them through your electrical wiring &#8211;\u00a0it a snap to use.\u00a0 The software is simple as well &#8211; just follow the basic directions<\/p>\n<p>2) elegent design.\u00a0 The product&#8217;s look and feel is small and unique, not cluncky like a VCR or DVD player.<\/p>\n<p>3) multiple computer access.\u00a0 While only one computer can view the cable stations at a time, you can load the software on multiple computers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4) no subscription fee.\u00a0 There is no subscription fee to use the service.\u00a0 Just pay for the hardware and you&#8217;re all set.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"129\" alt=\"slingbox.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/files\/2006\/08\/slingbox.jpg\" width=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased a slingbox the other day and I must say that I&#8217;m hooked.\u00a0 What a great product for those that want to connect to their local TV channels while traveling on the road.\u00a0 Through the great use of the Internet, you can connect your computer, via a broadband connection, to your cable box at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}