Thread: Sling Media Introduces Sling Receiver 300 for Television Service Providers

Sling Media Introduces Sling Receiver 300 for Television Service Providers

Enjoy your primary SlingLoaded™ DVR content on any HDTV in your home

Las Vegas, Nev., USA – Jan. 6, 2010 – Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), today unveiled the Sling® Receiver 300 to television service providers. The Sling Receiver 300 is a companion product to a SlingLoaded™ set-top box, such as the award-winning EchoStar SlingLoaded 922 HD DVR, that delivers a full 1080i video stream from an HD DVR to any other HD television in a home using the viewer’s wireless home network. The Sling Receiver 300 was selected as a CES Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Award honoree in the Multi-Room Audio/Video category.

With the Sling Receiver 300, viewers can enjoy the same HD programming that they experience on their primary HDTV on a secondary HDTV in their home without the need to run additional cables or purchase a second DVR.

“HDTV viewers often want to extend their main set-top box experience to another HDTV with minimal hassle and expense,” said John M. Paul, executive vice president of Products at Sling Media. “The Sling Receiver 300 can extend the full quality of a primary HD DVR experience to any secondary HDTV in the home, while eliminating the cost and problems of running cable.”

How It Works
The Sling Receiver 300 connects to a second HDTV via its built-in HDMI, component or composite video connectors. Depending on the connection method, multiple video formats up to 1080i can be delivered. Audio is delivered to the second TV using HDMI, digital audio or analog audio outputs. The Sling Receiver 300 is small enough to be mounted behind an HDTV.

The Sling Receiver 300 is one in a suite of products and services that EchoStar Technologies L.L.C and its affiliate Sling Media are making available to television service providers to help them attract new subscribers, retain current customers, and bring placeshifting to the largest audience possible.

Sling Media will be demonstrating this new technology in Booth 9021 at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Photos of Sling Media products are downloadable at
Sling Media - Media Overview

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Here is a ink with more info about this new device. It includes Pic's & Spec's as well.
Sling Media - Sling Receiver 300

Price and expected release date?

It looks like the perfect solution for secondary (bedroom) HDTV's. I'm thinking one of these in my bedroom and the 922 in my Family Room / Home Theater. Slim down to one receiver and to hell with these $17 fees for second and third bedroom receivers (save $34 bucks a month).

I need these 2 devices at a resonable cost. If the cost is resonable it would mean that the 32" LCD my wife won at her Office X-mas party may actually get unboxed and installed in our Bedroom.

What side of the dual tuner 922 does it broadcast. If it is side 2 in HD this be great solution to a many installations.

On the Thread on the Dish Forum page with the 922 Spec Sheet attached, Scott had mentioned that the 922's "slinged" content is sent out on TV2. So if the 922 indeed "slings" content via the TV2 tuner... with the use of the new Sling Reciever 300, does that mean that you would be able to watch TV in HD on a second HDTV? I currently do that now via a powered HDMI splitter, but I am stuck watching the same thing on both TV's. It seems like with a 922 and a Sling Receiver 300 at your second TV, you could view HD content on your second TV separate from what is showing on TV1... Right?

I think the answer may be even better than yes. The Sling 150 may just be the two-in-one version of your 2nd HD set + Sling 300. The Sling 150 is only 15" and 720p, but still an independent TV3 HD output.

If Sling 300 uses TV2, there will be three HD outputs from the 922, so my bet is leaning on Sling 300 using TV3. TV2 is still SD.

I wonder how far out the sling 300 is? I don't want to get too excited like I did with the 922 from ces last year that still is not out.

Can two 300's be used simultaneously or can only one be "logged" on at a time? How about a SlingCatcher and a 300 at the same time?