Sling improves video quality in iPhone app

The SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone app.

(Credit:
Sling Media)

Sling Media has updated its SlingPlayer
iPhone app to feature “high-quality streaming,” the consort said, though it didn’t wage literal partitioning for the newborn offering.

There are whatever limitations with the constituent of high-quality moving in SlingPlayer Mobile edition 2.0 for the iPhone. Sling said that to verify plus of high-quality streaming, users module requirement an 800 kilobits per ordinal download pace over Wi-Fi and a 500Kbps pace on 3G. The consort also said that “users with the Slingbox Classic, Tuner, AV, and Pro crapper course with this update, but they can’t ingest the high-quality recording mode.” High-quality recording is acquirable exclusive on the Slingbox Solo or a Slingbox Pro-HD.

In addition, the update has additional a newborn information guide. It allows users to wager DVR listings, schedule recordings, and wager shows that are transmission at that time.

Sling’s update to the iPhone app comes on the heels of its start of the
iPad app at the modify of November. That app, same the iPhone version, retails for $29.99.