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[APP] Slingplayer for Android NOW AVAILABLE in the Market

Just ran across this, has anyone heard anything? I haven't seen it on any other site and really not familiar with this one.
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2010-06/slingplayer-for-android-launches-tonight/
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Looks like it will actually be released tomorrow, this link also has the press release.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/slingplayer-mobile-for-android-ready-to-entertain-you-for-30-st/
Edit again: NOW AVAILABLE!

http://gizmodo.com/5569265/slingpla...eed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo)
It will be the highest priced app in the market, unless there is something higher than 30$..

Eclair~ said:
It will be the highest priced app in the market, unless there is something higher than 30$..
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Yeah, which is getting out of hand (at least, for me). I've had my Slingbox for several years and I've switched mobile platforms during that time. No discount and my licenses go to waste. I'm guessing I'm up to at least $100 in just Slingbox player (WinMo, iPhone, etc.).
It wouldn't bother me, since I do use the app, but I'm guessing they're about to milk me another time when they launch the iPad app. There's no sign they will opt for universal app. Second, their follow up support sucks. They're lucky they have such a useful product because their player development cycle (waaay too long), licensing scheme ("buy the hardware and never pay" except for our software) and support isn't winning a single award.
edit: OH, and another thing... their ridiculous ability to charge $30 for software that they aren't willing to state whether it will work with my Slingbox AV. I get to roll the dice and maybe one day it will go dark.

Been waiting for this app also. Besides the $30 cost there will be nothing better for live streaming from your tv. Had it for windows mobile and iphone. Watched directv all over town. This is the best $30 you can spend. Sucked when they shutdown the sling community forums and opened up the new "staff driven" support forums. Sling community was great and helped a lot of people.

timmins said:
Yeah, which is getting out of hand (at least, for me). I've had my Slingbox for several years and I've switched mobile platforms during that time. No discount and my licenses go to waste. I'm guessing I'm up to at least $100 in just Slingbox player (WinMo, iPhone, etc.).
It wouldn't bother me, since I do use the app, but I'm guessing they're about to milk me another time when they launch the iPad app. There's no sign they will opt for universal app. Second, their follow up support sucks. They're lucky they have such a useful product because their player development cycle (waaay too long), licensing scheme ("buy the hardware and never pay" except for our software) and support isn't winning a single award.
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I wonder if you would be able to transfer the iphone to ipad? I am sure this won't work to transfer to android though.
http://support.slingbox.com/get/KB-1000194.html
At least its just a one time charge, not sure what the other companies (not t-mobile) charge to have the TV type services.

jdscully said:
I wonder if you would be able to transfer the iphone to ipad? I am sure this won't work to transfer to android though.
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I'm digging into their forum/answers site and it looks like my old, old Windows Mobile license can transfer so long as the Android player is a trial version that accepts licenses. The iPhone app is a different beast than their usual software since Apple has complete control over the distribution of the app. I guess I learned tonight that it's quite possible to transfer from WinMo to Blackberry to Symbian. Your license is only active on one install.
I'm crossing my fingers they took this into consideration.

why on earth are they charging so damn much of this thing? Really, its just a player, thats a third of what I payed for the slingbox itself. But if this same app works on google tv, I might have a purpose for this app.
"When in your mobile phone provider's area of 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi coverage and connected to a Slingbox® SOLO, PRO or PRO-HD, SlingPlayer Mobile makes it simple to watch and control your living room television at any time from any location."
no dice on my slingbox tuner then i guess

What IS slingplayer?

Blueman101 said:
why on earth are they charging so damn much of this thing? Really, its just a player, thats a third of what I payed for the slingbox itself. But if this same app works on google tv, I might have a purpose for this app.
"When in your mobile phone provider's area of 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi coverage and connected to a Slingbox® SOLO, PRO or PRO-HD, SlingPlayer Mobile makes it simple to watch and control your living room television at any time from any location."
no dice on my slingbox tuner then i guess
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Working on my Slingbox AV but it says "some streams will not work". No clue why "some" wouldn't and others would.

jdscully said:
Working on my Slingbox AV but it says "some streams will not work". No clue why "some" wouldn't and others would.
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more then likely the older models work perfectly well, but they can sell the solo and pro's for a lot more then a tuner or an AV. It probably all about money. Their site says "tuner and AV is not supported. It is highly recommended to get the newer slingboxs" This is what it said for the iphone moblie app.

hmmm....i guess its about time to finally purchase a slingbox.

not showing up in the market for me -running frf50
edit; now it is using THIS

I have 3 slingboxes at work, an original, pro (i think next model after the original) and a new HD one. Only the HD one works. The iphone version supports all three. The prices on these players is wacked. I don't mind paying but jeez. Buy a $30 app just to find out I need to buy like $600 worth of new boxes. Good looking out Google with the 24 hour refund period.

hollywooder said:
What IS slingplayer?
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Google it?

I also think that having to buy the app at full price if you already are a slingbox owner is ridiculous!!! At least give current owners a discount or something!! And it's not like the app is cheap, $30 is type expensive just for the app...no??
Can someone please post the Slingbox.APK if it's ok/allowed or send it to me via PM? so we can see if our current licenses would work??? I'd greatly appreciate it as I'm many others would as well!!!

Best purchase since the N1

still cant see it here....

Do I NEED a sling box for this to work?

G1-evolve said:
Do I NEED a sling box for this to work?
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yes you do

Blueman101 said:
yes you do
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prices for a sling box online are ridiculous..

CorePlayer - Demoed at CES

CorePlayer has supposedly been demoed at CES and Core is at the stage now where they're just "Working on the Market LVL" (whatever that is) and fixing some bugs. It'll certainly not be a free app, and probably quiet expensive, (The existing versions are $29.99!) but if you have a look at their site you can see that it supports pretty much everything imaginable (ala VLC really).
Given the high price, the app is going to need to be a lot better than VPlayer etc, and realistically no matter how good it is, I'm not paying that much for a video player app. It's possible that the Apple & Android versions may be more realistically priced seeing as there _is_ good competition on those platforms (i.e VLC, VPlayer/Rockplayer, Galaxy tab's native player even).
They've been saying "soon" for several months, maybe now they've supposedly demoed the product (although no one seems to have actually seen it), it won't be far off.
It's always good to have options.

I wouldn't worry too much about the pricing:-
1. PC versions are always more expensive than App only.
2. To remain competitive Coreplayer will have to keep their pricing 'realistic'.
My guess is we shall see this title hitting the App store for something around the $9.99 mark.
An issue will be with the H.264 codec, which Google are in the news with at the moment.

Beards said:
I wouldn't worry too much about the pricing:-
1. PC versions are always more expensive than App only.
2. To remain competitive Coreplayer will have to keep their pricing 'realistic'.
My guess is we shall see this title hitting the App store for something around the $9.99 mark.
An issue will be with the H.264 codec, which Google are in the news with at the moment.
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It's not the PC versions that are $29.99, it's the mobile versions!

knightnz said:
It's not the PC versions that are $29.99, it's the mobile versions!
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WHAT..... You've got to be joking.

Beards said:
WHAT..... You've got to be joking.
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I know, I had to double-check that one, but every one of the mobile versions is $29.99.
Methinks their marketing dept is a bit optimistic.

I'm not too excited about this. Every time i did try a CorePlayer, the results sucked!
Might be because it had never been too.... paid, but not being able to play mp3 or h264 in the Mac version? lol.
And file support varies hugely depending on the platform, the big one is just for Windows, everything else is crippled.
But maybe they'll surprise me, who knows!

AlexTheStampede said:
I'm not too excited about this. Every time i did try a CorePlayer, the results sucked!
Might be because it had never been too.... paid, but not being able to play mp3 or h264 in the Mac version? lol.
And file support varies hugely depending on the platform, the big one is just for Windows, everything else is crippled.
But maybe they'll surprise me, who knows!
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It is possible to build a (free) version of VLC for Android now and a proper release of it shouldn't be far off, so Core's app is going to have to be both very good and very cheap, or they're not going to get very far.
That said, they're releasing it for iOS as well which already has VLC, so it'll be interesting to see what their gameplan is. VLC isn't exactly the most attractive application, so maybe they'll have a fantastic UI.

knightnz said:
It is possible to build a (free) version of VLC for Android now and a proper release of it shouldn't be far off, so Core's app is going to have to be both very good and very cheap, or they're not going to get very far.
That said, they're releasing it for iOS as well which already has VLC, so it'll be interesting to see what their gameplan is. VLC isn't exactly the most attractive application, so maybe they'll have a fantastic UI.
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Agreed..... Attractive UI or not, Coreplayer as good as it's name has previously made it is up amongst some serious competition.
They are going to have to forget their previous popularity on the territory they once used to hold well and be realistic on pricing if they desire to attain their status.
Having to pay for codec's is one thing but not at the expense of making you financially unpopular.

core player has been around since winmo 5.5 days and it was even on palm os and no i dont mean web os. It was the ONLY player for it back then but then they started charging an arm leg and one other part for it on winmo. why would u pay 30$ for it if you can get rock player at 10 which supports the exact same thing

I think coreplayer will have more codec support when it is released, however..... corecodec have consistently misled its customer for years on when something is going to be released and what development will continue once released.
I paid that silly sum for coreplayer winmo6 as it stated on their website that "hardware encoding for MSM chipsets was coming soon". I had a touch HD (HD1) so the thought of being able to play all my ripped dvd on my little phone was very appealing.
They then promised more support with Version "2" and I am sure people bought version 1 thinking 2 was near to release as this was posted a number of times on their website forums. None of this happened.
We are now back to square one with Android, they have been working on this for more than 18 months and have very little to show for it in that if this pans out like their other efforts it will probably never happen and be 12 months behind everything else when they are supposed to be innovating.
Dont hold your breath, stick with Rockplayer.

I had Coreplayer on my N96 and it's BY FAR the best audio player out there...
I'm sitting on the edge of my chair for purchase...

No NETFLIX for Thunderbolt?

I just saw a video on Engadget stating that The netflix app need PRE-INSTALLED keys on a snapdragon chip. And if thee keys arent installed by OEM you cant play netflix on the phone.
Way to go Android!!
I guess iphone has had the keys for a year now! Wow Steve Jobs has these companys by the balls!
Fragmentation sux!!! Now im second guessing getting the thunderbolt.

The TB isn't even out yet so don't make assumptions, besides I'm sure it still possible in the long run
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Check the video on engadget. Also the app is months away. So it 100% the keys arent installed. The guy in the video clearly states that the HTC EVO cant do Netflix!
HUGE BUMMER!!! Windows Phone 7 has netflix and with a 00001% user base but android doesnt???
Come on man!!

BigBonkers said:
Check the video on engadget. Also the app is months away. So it 100% the keys arent installed. The guy in the video clearly states that the HTC EVO cant do Netflix!
HUGE BUMMER!!! Windows Phone 7 has netflix and with a 00001% user base but android doesnt???
Come on man!!
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The app not being out yet has nothing to do with the keys being installed or not. Qualcom has stated that there chips will support Netflix, not sure where you are getting that the keys will "100% not be installed".
Also the chip in the EVO is completely different from the one in the TB. The TB has the 2nd Gen SnapDragon. So the EVO not being able to do Netflix has nothing to do with the TB being able to do it or not.

The problem with Android is it may be less secure, you know with people hacking apps and flash, help we have hulu for free on Android because of it so maybe netflix is a bit weary
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I remember a quote saying that qualcomm chips would be the first to see Netflix on android. I imagine it's possible that they've been installing the required keys on the latest processors, but that kind of forward-thinking benevolence doesn't seem very realistic, unfortunately.
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Its just heart breaking man. I really dont give a snot about netflix but its the point....i want the option. WP7 doesnt deserve it!!!!

Chopstick2U said:
I remember a quote saying that qualcomm chips would be the first to see Netflix on android. I imagine it's possible that they've been installing the required keys on the latest processors, but that kind of forward-thinking benevolence doesn't seem very realistic, unfortunately.
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I would think though that they have been talking about this since it was in development, this has probably been in development for a year or two at least. I don't think Netfix is going to release an app for android without the phones to support it. That would be horrible for business, you would want the most amount of people possible to be able to use your product.

Its the fragmentation and Androids unwillingness to protect The DEV's products with DRM and such

What is the big issue with hulu and netflix? Surely there are alternate places to get your TV show fix since we have flash enabled, right?

i am on the iphone 4 but looking to get the thunderbolt or bionic and this is one of the reasons i dont want to switch yet i know its a small reason but i'd rather love the phone than like it

According to the spec sheet, I picked up today from Verizon, VOD will include Blockbuster.

Netflix only requires DRM security on the chipset which the TB has. However, I dont think Froyo supports DRM as the DRM SDK/API is only available on Gingerbread and Honeycomb. I dont know if there's a software work-around for this though. I'd expect the TB to have Gingerbread by summer and Netflix is still a few months out from release anyhow... plenty of time...

Actually i think netflix streams a video........blockbuster app downloads it then plays it. I had it on my droid x....you pay per flick..... its not a monthly thing.... Complete garbage and the wait was horrible.

CHOPES: That's not the issue. Absolutely there are other places which are...dubious at best. The issue is that Android (meaning Google) doesn't want to stand up to the MPAA who are putting pressure on Netflix to make sure the environment is locked down against all us "thieves" out there. ;-)
It's the same attitude that linux users, myself included, have to battle all the time. Just because we choose to use an OS that's not there's and some people have busted their copy protection that means all of us will do that.
I'd blame delays in the software development as much as on the handset development. I would sure hope that ANY 4G phone would be capable of streaming Netflix eventually even if they currently aren't.
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I would agree that once the software is sorted out the TB oughta be able to do it. this article http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/16/lg-revolution-dumps-tegra-2-chooses-1ghz-snapdragon-msm8655-ins/ says that lg used the Revolution as their phone to demo Netflix, AND it is using the exact same Snapdragon (MSM8655) that's in the Thunderbolt, so it seems to me that the Thunderbolt should have the DRM stuff in the chipset too .

I can't believ e people are *****ing about playing movies on a phone lmfao

tazzpatriot said:
I can't believ e people are *****ing about playing movies on a phone lmfao
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1) This isn't just a phone, "it's your phone after your next phone" -- couldnt resist, sorry....
2) Some people come in here and laugh at people who want to play games on their "phone" and say that's what a PSP or DS is for....
Really, it isn't just a "phone" or everyone here, including you, would own a standard flip phone. We buy and pay for these phones to get the MOST that we can out of them. We want a do-it-all phone... or at least the best that current tech can provide.
10 years ago, people were paying $200+ for portable 4-5" TV players.
With all your posts, I cant believe you'd come crashing into this thread so harsh-like.
edit: ALSO you're a rom builder, the elite of users who want the most of their phone... that makes your harsh statement that must more odd and confusing.

kenyu73 said:
1) This isn't just a phone, "it's your phone after your next phone" -- couldnt resist, sorry....
2) Some people come in here and laugh at people who want to play games on their "phone" and say that's what a PSP or DS is for....
Really, it isn't just a "phone" or everyone here, including you, would own a standard flip phone. We buy and pay for these phones to get the MOST that we can out of them. We want a do-it-all phone... or at least the best that current tech can provide.
10 years ago, people were paying $200+ for portable 4-5" TV players.
With all your posts, I cant believe you'd come crashing into this thread so harsh-like.
edit: ALSO you're a rom builder, the elite of users who want the most of their phone... that makes your harsh statement that must more odd and confusing.
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Dude I was only kidding relax.. just cuz I don't use it for that I understand people do geez.. was just joking
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tazzpatriot said:
Dude I was only kidding relax.. just cuz I don't use it for that I understand people do geez.. was just joking
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My bad... Boston will do that.

Netflix Apk from Logitech Revue! Developers needed to port to epic!

Netflixwill OFFICIALLY support FUTURE Devices that meet their DRM criteria....Hate to say i told you so, but i told you so This means for us that is up to Devs to get netflix working for us from the apk provided. link bellow for all info.
I got this from the EVO forum and was wondering if any devlopers wanted to take a crack at making netflix work for the Epic!
Heres the link with all details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936789

JEZUS.
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anways, I would LOVE to see this happen.

Put in gen. Prob why there are no replys
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we could probably put a bounty on it also. There is going to be alot of people wanting this. Great find thou.

gokuman56 said:
Netflixwill OFFICIALLY support FUTURE Devices that meet their DRM criteria....Hate to say i told you so, but i told you so This means for us that is up to Devs to get netflix working for us from the apk provided. link bellow for all info.
I got this from the EVO forum and was wondering if any devlopers wanted to take a crack at making netflix work for the Epic!
Heres the link with all details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936789
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but I thought that the only thing that would support Netflix's DRM was DRM HARDWARE? Thus, anything using Netflix would need to use a new chipset developed for that DRM?

I'd love to see a real Netflix apk for the Epic.

notsosmrtgeek said:
we could probably put a bounty on it also. There is going to be alot of people wanting this. Great find thou.
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Yes a bounty would do the trick

I don't really know what I'm talking about but I don't see how this would work considering you are connecting to the netflix servers where they run drm checks. This isn't like a swype apk where once it's cracked and ported that's it. The server would be constantly checking (and updating?) to insure the devices streaming from its servers are legit.
Just my 2 cents, same reason it's so hard to keep hacked clients running on official game servers.
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Not gonna work. Hardware requirements will NOT be met on the Epic.

Ya, it's pretty much impossible.
Whatever you need to do to get it to actually work would probably be illegal.

for hardware, the epic can easily run netflix, even the Evo can. the iphone 4 runs netflix and it has identical hardware specs to the epic and all windows phone 7 devices have netflix and they have the same specifications as the evo.
I guess we will have to see if it will be done now...

gokuman56 said:
for hardware, the epic can easily run netflix, even the Evo can. the iphone 4 runs netflix and it has identical hardware specs to the epic and all windows phone 7 devices have netflix and they have the same specifications as the evo.
I guess we will have to see if it will be done now...
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You are misunderstanding, it isn't a matter of hardware performance but rather having a DRM enabled processor. Currently Qualcomm makes the only version of these available for Android phones, none of which are available to the public yet. Although I do believe the Thunderbolt may have one...
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thomasskull666 said:
You are misunderstanding, it isn't a matter of hardware performance but rather having a DRM enabled processor. Currently Qualcomm makes the only version of these available for Android phones, none of which are available to the public yet. Although I do believe the Thunderbolt may have one...
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Netflix requires some type of hardware encryption. Samsung has mentioned future phones will support it. But not current ones I guess. So I agree. It won't be on the eppic..sadly. But Hulu Plus might.

i know somebody will find a flaw in this but what if we fooled the windows phone 7 app to think that we are windows 7 phones. with a lot of porting it should atleast work on the old quallcom procceres because all windows phone 7 phones have it

It has nothing to do with windows phone 7. We don't have a processor that meets the hardware encryption.

Netflix
FWIW, Playon has released their app for Android now, and you can watch Netflix/Hulu/CBS/etc on the Epic with pretty good resolution.
Of course, you do have to pay for it and have a Windows server system, but it does work pretty well.

utbriancl said:
FWIW, Playon has released their app for Android now, and you can watch Netflix/Hulu/CBS/etc on the Epic with pretty good resolution.
Of course, you do have to pay for it and have a Windows server system, but it does work pretty well.
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Anyone with a windows machine could run netflix and watch it through RDP on their phone. Only problem is the best RDP app for android doesn't work worth a damn, and its $20.
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Well, there are 2 problems with RDP and netflix,
first there is too much lag, you cant see the video except for individual frames, and netflix won't allow you to view using RDP. Try it and see what happens. You will get an error from netflix that says you cannot view using remote desktop.....

gokuman56 said:
Well, there are 2 problems with RDP and netflix,
first there is too much lag, you cant see the video except for individual frames, and netflix won't allow you to view using RDP. Try it and see what happens. You will get an error from netflix that says you cannot view using remote desktop.....
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Skeeeeeeet. No Netflix for us lol
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Actually, the processor in our Epic, the S5PC110, has "TrustZone technology for secure transactions and DRM" per the S5PC110_EVT1_UM10.pdf
I'm guessing if Netflix really wanted to they could use the DRM in our processor already for their purposes. Reading the CPU spec sheet it seems that it is fully capable of having a protected area for Netflix to run their DRM routines.

Netflix streaming for android

When is netflix gonna REALLY gonna get onboard with android?
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Its all about DRM in the chips. Rumor has it HTC will be he first to get it. Cause qualcomm chips support the DRM.

Eh... gotta wonder... I mean the initial reason they didn't do it is because android has little to no security on anything so within a week of release there'd be an app to download the movies off of netflix and keep them or something... securities really haven't improved.

Here's what you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076150

Thread closed, you have pointed to the right direction