I just got one. I didn't want one, didn't think I'd use it, didn't think I'd care... This thing is insane though! Really nice to be able to just have a small window controlling your TV off to the side on your desktop. The remote viewing is awesome and stupidly easy to set up. If you're a network idiot you can have this thing good to go for internal viewing in seconds and if you've got a UPnP router you'll be viewing it externally nearly as fast. Any of your friends or family can watch it by simply having the SlingPlayer (free download) installed and having your Slingbox's ID and password. The image quality is far from perfect, but still really good, and it's only going to get better. Certainly good enough to have running in a small window.
I'm still learning all of the intricacies, but I really like the favorites bar. Basically it's a set of icons with network labels that you associate with a channel number. It's really non-intrusive, sits along the bottom of the SlingPlayer software and allows you to change channels in a way that's far more meaningful than having to sort through 50 channels you never watch anyway.
Apparently, the Slingbox is able to completely control a Tivo as well. I haven't set it up for that yet because like I said I didn't expect to like it this much, but it really is an awesome product. You can even view your Slingbox content on some mobile phones (not Blackberrys
).If you like TV, check it out, you'll really like the Slingbox.
