Watch TV on Your Palm Treo

Sling Media just announced SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS, making it possible to watch television on the Palm OS-based Treo 700p smartphone. The trial version of SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS is available as a free download by visiting http://us.slingmedia.com/page/downloads.html and http://ca.slingmedia.com/page/downloads.html, as part of the public beta program. Once the final version is announced (expected in Q2) SlingPlayer Mobile will be available for $29.99 and $34.99 CAD respectively and includes a free 30-day trial. There are no monthly or recurring charges for the use of the software.

SlingPlayer Mobile gives Slingbox customers the ability to watch and control their home TV from a variety of smartphones and handheld computers using either a 3G cellular or WiFi network connection. Unlike other services currently available for other mobile devices, anything that you can watch on your TV at home, you can now watch via a compatible smartphone or handheld computer. In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile customers can control a home digital video recorder (DVR), to record shows, watch shows that have been previously recorded, and even pause and rewind live TV.

The mobile TV experience for Palm OS is powered by a Slingbox, the product that enables consumers to watch their living room TV programming from wherever they are by turning virtually any Internet-connected laptop or desktop computer (PC and Mac) and a wide variety of Windows Mobile and now Palm OS-based handhelds and smartphones into personal TVs. The Slingbox redirects, or "placeshifts," a single live TV stream from a cable box, satellite receiver or DVR to the viewer's alternate "display"—located anywhere in the home or anywhere in the world, via the Internet.

Support for other Palm OS-based devices will be included in future software releases. www.slingmedia.com.