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Sling's “AirTV Player” Combines IPTV With Local Channels

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @01:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-goodie-another-remote dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Sling has lifted the curtain on a new "AirTV Player"—a set-top box that combines IPTV with an OTA antenna for local channel reception.

Like every other set-top box on Earth, the AirTV Player hooks up to your Internet connection and plays video, and here the SlingTV service is the primary provider. As a bonus you get Netflix, local TV, and access to the Google Play Store.

Thanks to Zatz Not Funny, we know the device is powered by Android. The site found the FCC docs for the AirTV Player, which indicates it was built by a company called "Technicolor." In the results database for Geekbench, a popular Android CPU benchmark, there is a "Technicolor AirTV Player" listing. The listing shows a device running Android 6.0 on a 1.2GHz ARMv8 SoC with 1GB of RAM. We're not sure if that means it's a custom build of Android or just Android TV.

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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Tuesday December 27 2016, @06:39PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @06:39PM (#446407) Journal

    +1000 on the HDHomerun. Simple and elegant...one Ethernet port and one coax (apparently it has an internal splitter for the antenna). My MythTV backend is very old and I had three pcHDTV HD-5500 cards in it (yes, old old PCI 2.2 cards). One recently died and I bought a new HDHomerun connect. Totally awesome for sure. Now I have four tuners. When my other PCI cards die I'll just throw another one of those on the network.

    The hdhomerun_config command line program is great too...took me no time to figure out how to check signal strength etc. Great stuff in every way.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:26PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:26PM (#446416)

    There's actually a nice little Android app that makes it easy if you're up in the attic moving an antenna around as well.