fingers crossed for linux support. This would be a great addition to my HTPC.

mikegioia · on Jan 6, 2015

Hell, I'd take Roku or AppleTV support! Anything to get off this Verizon/TimeWarner insanity.

unwiredben · on Jan 6, 2015

Roku support was part of their press release. Apple TV was explicitly not mentioned.

ricktdotorg · on Jan 6, 2015

there's some hope here -- if they use Widevine for their DRM platform, and you're okay with using Google Chrome to view. if they go with Adobe Primetime/Flash Access (or any other DRM platform), we're basically screwed

dsl · on Jan 6, 2015

It does use Widevine. Sling is basically the Move Networks technology EchoStar (DISH) bought three or four years ago, combined with some amendments for digital to EchoStars existing distribution deals.

Heck, if you check DNS they are even still using the old Move CDN configs:

   ~> host www.sling.com
   www.sling.com is an alias for cdn.prod.movetv.com.c.footprint.net.