Slingcatcher software
Alternatively it provides you with a way of extending the full functionality of the AV setup in your living room i. On top of the SlingBox ability, the SlingCatcher can also be used to stream video straight from your computer, and also play back video and audio files from USB devices. The box itself is suitably small with dimensions of x x 45mm so will tuck away out of sight quite easily.
This being something you might want to do simply because the styling is definitely an acquired taste. At least is feels sturdy and well-made. Accompanying the various audio and video outputs are a couple of USB ports and of course an Ethernet connection. Once setup and logged into your SlingBox account, connecting to your SlingBox is a simple case of selecting it from the list of boxes associated with your account and entering the password.
Using the remote you can now control all your AV devices as though they were right there in front of you. Indeed, when testing by streaming video from my home to the office baring in mind I live pretty close video clearly stuttered and started, as can be seen in our video review. Moving onto the second, rather less bandwidth limited ability of the SlingCatcher we tried streaming some video straight from a laptop across our local network.
To do this, SlingMedia provides a program it calls SlingProjector. Video quality using this local streaming method was much better and we would happily watch a full action movie like this.
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Basically once connected it merely projects whichever window you've selected to be captured to the SlingCatcher. But here is why we think it's slightly dodgy: you have to have that window running on the desktop, it can't be obscured nor can it be minimised else it won't work.
The software does the rest - i. However, the connection at times was jittery, even on a wired network connection and it's such a faff that we wouldn't want to go through the process every time we wanted to watch a YouTube video on the TV. You've got the Wi-Fi connection, just grab your laptop. The SlingCatcher on the surface sounds like a great bit of kit, but it's really only useful if you've got a Slingbox and looking to stream your TV content to another TV rather than a laptop.
The lack of network support negates this from being a decent media streamer and the SlingProjector feature comes off as a workaround rather than a viable solution. Why you can trust Pocket-lint. Verdict The SlingCatcher on the surface sounds like a great bit of kit, but it's really only useful if you've got a Slingbox and looking to stream your TV content to another TV rather than a laptop. Writing by Stuart Miles.
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