SlingCatcher Outruns Digital Media Boxes

On Thursday, Sling Media pushed out its latest innovation — the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher lets customers watch online video from a diverse spectrum of sites on the Web, including network television venues like ABC.com, video subject matter sites like Hulu.com and CollegeHumor.com, community video sites like YouTube, and even online movie rentals from popular services like Netflix.

Here’s the twist: The SlingCatcher lets consumers draw from all of those sites directly from a PC to the TV.

Sling Media describes it as on-demand access to diverse video programming by the World Wide Web that dwarfs linear programming that comes into homes from cable and satellite.

“Thousands of video programs are available for viewing online for free, but until now there hasn’t been an easy way to watch them on a screen larger than your laptop computer,” said Blake Krikorian, co-founder and CEO of Sling Media. “In addition, SlingCatcher will […]

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