Free SlingPlayer 2.0 update adds PVR features to SlingBox

SlingBox owners will soon be able to upgrade to SlingPlayer 2.0. New in version 2 is ‘Clip+Sling', which lets SlingBox owners capture video clips of programmes and share them online with other SlingBox owners at the forthcoming Sling.com site.

Perhaps more useful is the 60-minute buffer that adds PVR-like pause and rewind features to video playback, and the new EPG means that you won't need to wrestle with the Sky+ programme guide on your laptop when you're looking for something to watch.

SlingPlayer 2.0 will be available as a free download in the next few weeks.

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If you want to do more than just stream video from your living room home entertainment set-up to a remote computer over a network or the internet, but its new Sling Media's new SlingCatcher might be of interest.

Publicly demonstrated at CES for the first time yesterday, SlingCatcher connects to a TV and can receive content from a connected USB storage device, remote SlingBox or a PC running the SlingProjector software. SlingProjector also allows content from streaming video sites like YouTube to be displayed on a TV.

SlingCatcher will be available in the UK later this year, the price to be confirmed.

[ Sling Media]