FOSTER CITY, CALIF.—Sept. 11, 2014—Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), today announced the availability of SlingTV™, replacing the popular and award-winning Slingbox 500.
SlingTV delivers a customer's pay TV channels and programs (live or recorded) from the living room to the most popular mobile devices in up to HD quality with no restrictions. SlingTV also delivers new "Smarter TV" features designed to enhance the TV viewing experience in the living room.
SlingTV
Powered by Slingbox 500 hardware, the new SlingTV gives customers a world-class, exhilarating Slingbox experience in their living rooms that utilizes new tools to easily discover and navigate to TV shows, movies and sports in an elegant, seamless manner.
SlingTV is a powerful Slingbox that gives customers access to their pay TV channels (live or recorded) on a laptop or desktop personal computer, tablet or phone at home or anywhere in the world a network connection is available. Additionally, SlingTV is designed to make the living room TV experience more enjoyable and powerful by turning the television to which SlingTV is connected into a "Smarter TV" without having to purchase a new TV or pay for a set-top box upgrade. SlingTV has a suggested retail price (MSRP) of $299.99.
SlingTV features a vibrant electronic programming guide (EPG) that utilizes cover-art tiles similar to Slingplayer for iPad's Media Gallery. Customers can now discover more of their existing pay TV programming in an easy-to-navigate interface with SlingTV's state-of-the-art programming gallery. This new interface provides recommendations powered by SlingCloudTM, the company's cloud-based analytics platform that analyzes popularity, reviews and social activity.
SlingTV features include
- New on-screen TV main menu powered by the included SlingTV remote
- Soft remote built into Slingplayer for iPhone or Android phone apps (available week of Sept. 15th)
- Gallery View
- A visual interface to easily find and select a show to watch
- Filter by popular, favorite channels, sports, movies, kids programming, etc. currently airing, upcoming and in primetime
- Rotten Tomatoes® ratings for all movies in Movies filter
- Big screen TV scoreboard and channel guide. See all the scores and stats without changing the channel
- Find out who's playing, the score and the channel it's airing on in a visual, easily navigated interface
- Details View
- Get detailed game stats in real-time for fantasy fanatics
- Integrated Thuuz™ excitement ratings tell you when to tune into a game based on the score, the match-up, dynamic game momentum changes, etc.
- Movie and TV episode details
Existing Slingbox 500 customers are automatically receiving the SlingTV software upgrade this week for FREE to enable SlingTV features on their Slingbox 500 hardware. All new Slingbox 500 and SlingTV purchasers will get the FREE software update when they first configure their device. In order to take full advantage of the SlingTV features, both new and existing Slingbox 500/SlingTV customers must run component (red, green, blue along with red/white audio) and HDMI cables out of their set top box into the respective inputs on SlingTV. They can then run just HDMI out from SlingTV to the big screen TV.
For a list of Sling Media's retail partners, visit http://www.sling.com/Buy/SlingRetailers.aspx.
About Sling
Sling Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, is a leading provider of Multiscreen Smart TV solutions for consumers and television service providers. Sling provides the complete award-winning solution of hardware, cloud services and applications that gives consumers the freedom to discover, control and consume their live TV and DVR content anywhere in the world, on their preferred tablet, phone and computing platform. Sling’s patented TV solutions are available directly to consumers or through service providers that have embedded Sling’s capabilities. For more information, please visit sling.com.