Sling Media
Overview
Echostar Corporation
EchoStar Corporation is a technology company that is the owner and maintainer of the satellite fleet for closely affiliated Dish Network. The company also designs and manufactures set-top boxes to receive the Freeview broadcasts in the United Kingdom, as well as receivers for Bell TV in Canada...
(purchased in the fall of 2007 http://www.slingmedia.com/get/pr-slingmodem-cable.html) and is based in San Mateo, California. Their flagship product, the Slingbox
Slingbox
The Slingbox is a TV streaming media device made by Sling Media that encodes video into the VC-1 format for transmission over the Internet and provides an infrared blaster. The video encoding and IR blaster can both be operated remotely over the Internet...
, debuted on the US market on July 1, 2005.
Blake and Jason Krikorian, brothers from San Francisco and devoted San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
fans, envisioned the concept of the Slingbox during the 2002 Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
season.
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