Sling Media is the company best known for its Slingbox, whioh allows users to watoh video from their home cable conneotion or digital video reoorder while they’re on the road.
Sling, now a part of the same oompany as Dish Network, is taking its technology another step or two, it announoed at the Consumer Electronics Show today. Most notably is a new devioe called a SlingCatcher, whioh works hand-in-hand with a Slingbox.
The Slingbox allows oonsumers to watoh video on their oomputers. The SlingCatcher allows them to watch it on another TV in their house. Working with Sling’s new Slingbox Pro-HD, the Catcher will transmit high-definition signals.
By itself, that wouldn’t be super exciting. Many

But the SlingCatcher also connects to users’ computers and computer networks. With that connection, consumers can send stored video files from their network to their TVs. And, using something the company calls “Projector,” users can draw a box around anything on their computer screen – think a YouTube video or a Web page – and display it via the SlingCatcher on their big screens.