A Slingbox "Entourage"
Although this blog is about Hollywood's love-hate relationship with technology, much of the time I'm writing about the hate side of the equation. I have a column at latimes.com today that looks at one instance of love: how the line producer of HBO's "Entourage" found a way to make his job -- and his life -- easier by using a Slingbox to monitor the day's shoots remotely on a palm-sized OQO computer. With any luck, the writers strike will end soon, allowing "Entourage" to film its third season early next year as scheduled. If not....
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There are lots of great untraditional uses of Sling in the media business. I ran the Video On Demand business for Playboy TV and we as well as many other TV programmers deploy sling to various cable markets (friends/family households) so we can periodically check to ensure our content is available and well positioned to the consumer. Cable companies actually deploy sling boxes as well to their various markets as its the best way to centrally monitor and verify correct product positioning and availability in distributed markets. You see in the cable VOD world, there is little-to-no feedback loop for cable companies and programmers to check correct availability of their video on demand products. Sling is a great $200 solution to get this feedback loop.
Posted by: James Glasscock | December 28, 2007 at 04:01 PM