Catchword: placeshifting

Filed Under: English, Media, Technology

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Sling Media Inc. on Thursday unveiled their Slingbox—a new Personal Video Recorder (PVR) that lets you redirect a live video stream from your cable or satellite TV to a computer anywhere in the house, or, through a broadband connection, anywhere on the Internet.…Sling Media calls the technique “placeshifting,” a play on the word “timeshifting,” which describes the viewing of recorded video material after it’s first broadcasted.

Article or Document Title:
“Slingbox “placeshifting” PVR Mac-bound” (URL)

Author:
Peter Cohen

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Macworld

Date of Publication:
June 30, 2005

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