EchoStar Buys Sling Media

Well it looks like Sling Media just got rewarded for all their years of hard work and great products. EchoStar, owners of Dish Network, just bought one of our favorite tv streaming companies for the low low price of 380 million dollars.

We aren't sure what to expect from this merger, but we can hope that they integrate the Slingbox software into their future satellite boxes. It would be nice to wrap all this technology up in one device. Who wants a cable/satellite box, DVR box and a Slingbox in the cabinet. If they roll them up like DirecTV did with Tivo then you will have a very powerful box and a major new reason for people to jump ship from their current cable/sat provider and join Dish.

The deal is going to be finalized before the end of the year so we expect '08 to the be the year of the products actually merging and producing something we can buy.

via engadget

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Posted by David Ficocello at September 26, 2007 3:29 PM