Alli, What flavor of the Slingbox do you have?
Thanks. JLV On Jul 30, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Alli wrote: > Have you investigated getting a Slingbox and the Palm Slingplayer for > things like baseball games? Especially if you have something like a > DirecTV AllSeason Pass, you can't go wrong with that. > > Between my Slingbox and Kinoma 4, I miss nothing. > > Scandals & Animals wrote: > > I'm a little frustrated with the limitations of Palm, mainly > multimedia, > > but also the inability to use what I think is a flash tool to > follow a > > baseball game, live. So I've been thinking of going back to a > phoneless > > device like a PPC and a BT phone for connectivity. > > > > But, then I thought of how convenient it is to have everything in > your hand > > in one package. I thought of the hassle of carrying two devices, > managing > > two batteries while surfing, etc. Not to mention the pain of > grafitti or a > > virtual keyboard. And if I have to look at google maps in a > hurry, it's > > easy on the treo, but would be a pain on a PPC linked to a phone > via BT. > > And boy, do I hate virtual keyboards. Detest them. > > > > "So," thought I, "why not keep the treo for all these reasons and > then use > > the treo as the modem for the other device when I want to do the > flash or > > multimedia things?" MaAy sound crazy, but it would work, wouldn't > it? Or > > would the Foleo do these things? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
