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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

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

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 [zatznotfunny.com], we know the device is powered by Android. The site found the FCC docs [fccid.io] 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 [primatelabs.com]" 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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