November 2006

The Canadian media industry is deliberating over the Slingbox, which has been turning heads in the U.S. since San Mateo, Calif., start-up Sling Media started rolling out the contraption in 2005.

Developed by two frustrated Silicon Valley engineers who wanted to catch their San Francisco Giants games in real-time when they were on the road, the Slingbox enables users to "placeshift," or redirect their home cable signals to their computers – wherever they may be globally – via a set-top box with a broadband Internet connection.

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