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Ever had the desire to view a program back home while on the road? Well, most of us have, as did two brothers, Blake and Jason Krikorian. While traveling during the 2002 Major League Baseball season, they were forced to miss the best games that year and decided to find a solution. The Slingbox was born, and is now a part of the Echostar/Dish Network family of products.

The Slingbox is a TV streaming device which allows you to shift (or "sling") television shows from your TV or personal video recorder to a computer anywhere in the world. It means you can watch the latest episode of Coronation Street from a hotel room in Dubai, or catch up with The Wire in Madrid. You can even "sling" shows to your mobile phone, to watch on the move.

Slingbox was a clever creation that let people take their recorded shows and watch them on a laptop while traveling. It helped us move further along the path of getting our content anytime, anywhere. It introduced the concept of “place shifting” so that you never had to miss a show.

Before there was Hulu, there was Slingbox. This clever $250 set-top box broadcast your entire cable or satellite TV lineup, including DVR content, to your laptop or Windows Mobile smart phone over the Web.

TV junkies, rejoice. You can now leave the confines of home — or country — without ever missing an episode of Glee. If you have a Slingbox installed at home, the SlingPlayer Mobile app lets you watch live TV, or whatever you've got saved on your DVR, on your iPhone, as long as you're connected to a wireless network.

iTunes Rewind 2009 …Best Media of the Year” recognizes SlingPlayer Mobile as one of the Top 40 Top Selling Apps out of the more than 100,000 apps on iTunes.

No road warrior should have to spend all weekend catching up on missed TV. Slingbox connects a DVR or satellite receiver to a laptop or cellphone for easy watching anywhere in the world.

This genius device gives viewers access to their cable television programming anywhere with a computer and high-speed internet connection. While initially hailed as a solution for dorm-dwellers without space for a television, the Slingbox has become a favorite of travelers who can’t miss their favorite shows or games just because they’re away from home.