That's the understatement of the year. "All you need is a cable card in your PC." Really? Those are not available, Orb is a hack, Sling works with any video equipment - from cameras to STB's, to TiVo's with cable cards.

I've tried Orb with ATSC boards, clear QAM HD Homerun, etc. It's no more than a file transcoder that hogs CPU cycles on a "tower PC" that you've gotten rid of 5 years ago when you got your notebook. You're not going to get encrypted cable content via Orb.

This is good news to see Sling on a new platform, but we've all moved onto Boxee now haven't we.

I did a little write-up a handful of years ago paying respects to the Osborne, my first computer. Take a look at the 4.77MHz CPU, 83k floppy (upgradable!) and the other specs like the 4" black and white CRT.

http://davemathews.com/fun/osborne.html

I want to run the output from the Grand CD into a kaossilator then through through an autotuner. Done and done!

Pogoplug.com from Cloud Engines - your files anyware. It's like the Slingbox for USB drives!

Boxee on ANY platform FTW!

Sling light, Sling bright. Please send those media bits to me tonight.

This is just what I need with Ubuntu and boxee.tv to replace the 1GHz Mac Mini at the HDTV!

This does not "hack or disrupt your existing Apple TV experience, or the purchased media. You boot up in Apple TV mode, same features as before, but you get a couple new options. XBMC or Boxee that you can download and install as "extra" menu options.

Best thing is that the two other new options play formats outside of the iTunes world, attach to NAS boxes (that can be SMB or UPnP, etc) that are not required to run the iTunes server protocol that Apple TV on its own requires...

It's classy! :) And you don't need to take it apart...

This does not "hack or disrupt your existing Apple TV experience, or the purchased media. You boot up in Apple TV mode, same features as before, but you get a couple new options. XBMC or Boxee that you can download and install as "extra" menu options.

Best thing is that the two other new options play formats outside of the iTunes world, attach to NAS boxes (that can be SMB or UPnP, etc) that are not required to run the iTunes server protocol that Apple TV on its own requires...

It's classy! :) And you don't need to take it apart...

You just can't take image quality into consideration; but audio too. Many digital cameras have the microphones on the top, or lackluster codec support for audio (sometimes video too) which leads to overall low quality of the media captured.

I shot some video with a Panasonic Lumix FX07 which I LOVE for photos and low light situations, then followed it up with video from a Sanyo Xacti when I was interviewing the guys from team XBMC and you can REALLY tell the difference in audio quality.

Take a look and listen to the difference; http://blip.tv/file/1154606/

My opener and close footage are done with the Panny, the interviews are with the Sanyo...