SlingPlayer Mobile On iPhone and iPad Gets Video Out Support

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Great news for SlingPlayer Mobile users on iPad and iPhone: they’ve just announced that SlingPlayer Mobile will support video out functions, meaning you won’t have to squint and strain at your relatively tiny Retina display to watch your favorite shows. Now you’ll be able to put them up on bigger screens as they were meant to be seen.

Basically, what this does is give you a Slingbox to go, complete with display, as you can connect your iPad or iPhone to a full-sized television and pipe your video out via the now-supported video out function. Also included in the new version of SlingPlayer Mobile were a few extra, though somewhat unclear, “bug fixes”, which regular SlingPlayer Mobile users might catch right off. And don’t worry about quality loss–early reports suggest that this will be high quality video.

I’m pretty much in favor of anything that advances the home theater concept, and being able to take your home theater with you wherever you happen to go–not to mention being able to use this, reciprocally, as part of your home theater (kind of as a set-top box, even, with the critical difference that you can take this set-top box off the set and carry it where you need to be)–is an idea that I can’t help but be happy about. And this does a great job of advancing the idea; after all, you’re starting out with your content at home, streaming it in to watch, and then carrying the output with you whether you’re going to an appointment or you just need something on hand for those various traffic waits.

Some problems are being reported, however (the iPad section seems to have a hefty jolt of irate comments), so while this may be a great boost to the home theater concept, we may only be getting started.