Sling Rolls Out Video Portal

By Geoff Duncan
November 26, 2008

Sling media has opened up the doors on its video streaming portal, offering content from NBC, Fox, CBS, BBC America, PBS, and a slew of other sources.

Sling Media, an Sling.com, featuring current television content from networks like NBC, CBS, and Fox, along with a selection of movies, older televisions shows, and video from Web-based video sites like College Humor.

In taking the site public, Sling.com is going up against sites like the Fox-NBC partnership Hulu, sites operated by the networks themselves, as well as video services like the iTunes store and Xbox Live Marketplace…and it's doing so with much of the same content. However, Sling.com isn't so much competing with other online video sites as leveraging them—in fact, much of Sling.com's current content comes from Hulu (and is branded as such). The site's real differentiator is that users with a SlingBox can also access their own home ...

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