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May 31, 2006
Replay SlingCorder Release
For all you SlingBox lovers, you'll be delighted to know that you can now record your SlingPlayer streams on your PC.
Our new Replay SlingCorder product lets you record high quality video from your SlingBox (tm) so you can watch anytime, anywhere. It's easy to record right away, or schedule recordings for a later time and channel. Videos are saved as unprotected Windows Media Video files.
Until today, the only way to record from your SlingBox was to use Screen Capture programs like Replay Screencast. This type of solution suffers from being harder to use, as well as losing quality. Replay SlingCorder makes an exact copy of the video stream, then reassembles the bits into a playable file, giving you the best possible quality.
It's curious Sling didn't add this capability to their player, and they showed no inclination to do this, so we built the solution for their customers. I suppose if I were rebroadcasting video feeds without the permission of the content owners, the last thing I'd want to do would be to further enrage the big media companies by also adding a recording feature. Nevertheless, recording is well within your legal rights, as long as you don't redistribute the content you've recorded. Rebroadcasting rights are much less clear.
Anyway, if you're a SlingBox owner, learn more or download a free trial here. Replay SlingCorder is $29.95.
And if you order by June 5, you can save $10 using this coupon code:
RSLBLOG0531
Finally, if you like what we're doing, help us get the word out! Please "digg" this news at digg.com here. If we get enough diggs, more people will discover the software by virtue of being on the digg.com front page.
Posted by Bill Dettering at May 31, 2006 02:06 PM | Technorati Tags: slingbox recorder capture sling media sling software video