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Sling Touch Controller 100: Hands On

2010-01-13
slang touch confer all 100 and basically what it does is takes basically everything use everything you can do with the traditional remote through the on-screen interface and gives you all those features in the touchscreen device itself rather than you know pull up the guide on screen and scroll through the 9000 channels I have on my touch screen remote I can set up filters which are basically like favorites and I say okay I want to see all of the movies that are on right now yeah exactly supported through the cable pyretic right right it's it's an OEM product and so we sell it to TV service providers through the integration that has to be done on the set-top box we have to write software once it sets up box have you announced any partnership did for others no I think nothing announced yet so right so right now we're looking at all the movies on now we can say okay turn HD on I only want to see high-def movies Wi-Fi yeah what's this there's always a little scary when your devil in here with Wi-Fi what's the size of the screen 4.3 capacitive screen capacitive touch 480 by 272 signature on the side of it to see the size of the that's great then it's got a nice big battery in there two to four shootin for about ten hours of active use what besides the battery I want to say 1,700 milliamp and it just has a dock connector right yeah just pop this guy in the dock and it'll actually you can use it while it's you know it was designed to be able to be easily this was a first look at the sling touch control anything else teddy yeah so one of the other key features of the product not only can they control your DVR it's also a whole Universal IR remote so I can program the hard buttons to control my TV volume of mute also it might have a Sony blu-ray player on my rack for example I can add control the Sony for Ric Flair some of my living room I say alright well now I want to use my Sony blu-ray player pops up an unsprung version you know my actual physical Sony remote not on launch so it's definitely something that will add later on down the road but on launch we're just going to give you the basic ability to load the different remotes and control them very impressive thank you very much Thanks
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