Has anyone ever used a slingbox? what are the minimum requirement i would need on my laptop computer? Thanks

I played with one on a cell phone once. The guy had his Tivo on it. I liked it .

From slingmedia:

Windows System Requirements

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Minimum PC Requirments:

Microsoft Windows® Vista™ or Windows® XP with Service Pack 2
Intel® Pentium IV 1.3 GHz processor
1 GB RAM for Windows® Vista™ and 512 MB for Windows® XP
150 MB available disk space for installation

Graphics card (24-bit color)
Sound card (16-bit)
Network connectivity

Minimum Network Requirements:

Cable or DSL modem (for out-of-home viewing)
256 Kbps upstream network speed recommended (higher upstream network speeds yield higher quality video)
Home network router – wired or wireless (UPnP™ compatibility highly recommended)



Mac System Requirements

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Minimum Mac Requirements:

A Macintosh computer with a 700MHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel-based processor
Mac OS X v10.3.9 (or later recommended)
125MB of free disk space
512MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)
Network connectivity

Minimum Network Requirements:

Cable or DSL modem (for out-of-home viewing)
256 Kbps upstream network speed recommended (higher upstream network speeds yield higher quality video)
Home network router – wired or wireless (UPnP™ compatibility highly recommended)

Is there a monthly service fee for Slingbox? You could hook up a camera and that would be a nice video server which you could watch cameras anywhere.

No subscription fee's, but if you want to use your PDA they get another 30 bucks for software. Software for the PC and MAC is free.