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The Slingbox ($180) connects to your TV and your home wireless network so you can; for example, you could watch the ballgame live on your laptop while you’re in the bathroom. You can also watch the ballgame live on your laptop while you’re in the bathroom of a hotel in Rome. It sends the programming from your TV, over the internet to wherever you are and you can even watch the programming on a cellphone. Get the Slingbox Pro ($230) and hook up your TiVo, satellite box, Apple TV, DVD player, etc.  Of course, the Slingbox isn’t nearly as famous as the TiVo; you may not even have heard of it. In that case, saying that the new Slingbox Solo has a lower price ($180) than its predecessors and has built-in jacks for high-definition gear probably won’t mean much to you.
In that case, a primer is in order.
The Slingbox’s purpose in life is to transmit whatever is on your TV to your laptop or smartphone (like a Treo or Windows Mobile phone) across the Internet. The point, of course, is to allow people who travel — to another room, another city or another continent — to view all the channels and recordings that they’re already paying so much money for at home.
It comes in handy when you want to watch TV upstairs, but your fancy high-definition TiVo is downstairs. It’s also great when you’re in a hotel room, bristling at paying $13 for a movie when your video recorder back home is a veritable Blockbuster. And Slingboxes are also a blessing when you are overseas and longing for the news, or the sports broadcasts, of your hometown.
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