Slingbox...

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Does anyone know much about them?

 

If so, are they any good?

 

What's stopping me setting one of these up in a country that shows live premiership saturday games and viewing them on my laptop in the uk?

 

Help!

[Stu M]

Curse you NTRSW! I haven't bought a gadget in ages, but this looks really cool!

[Stu M]

And the reviews seem pretty positive:

 

http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=3124

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Well I was chatting with the bro in law (he's a noggin) and we were saying how we could install the gadget in his folks place and hey presto, norweigen zatherday foosballher!!

 

Baa doom.

 

I just need to know if it's possible....

[Stu M]

By the looks of the advertised features, I see no reason why it wouldn't be possible. The only legal stipulation in the UK is that you have a TV licence to receive TV broadcasts and as with other things, new technology has seemingly exploited a loophole here in that broadband can take advantage of foreign TV rights and there's little UK lawmakers can do it about it at the moment.

 

I did read that you can only have one connection at a time though, so you couldn't watch Match of the Norway (ta-da!) in Hornchurch while your bro in law was trying to connect somewhere else.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

That's a shame, but I'm sure further versions will be more flexible.

 

I'm going for this!!!