Here at CES in Las Vegas, Sling Media is showing off their new "SlingCatcher" — the reverse cousin of their Slingbox.
While the SlingBox let's you watch your home TV on your computer — even if you're on the other side of the globe — the SlingCatcher lets you play anything from your computer on your TV.
Now you can watch all of your favorite clips on the big screen, whether they're stored locally on your laptop or anywhere on the web. We're talking the ability to watch YouTube clips on your flat-screen TV. (That means more content consumption from the left-side of The Curve! A bit more on that in a second.)
So, along with "What you want, when you want, and where you want," now you can add: "how you want it" (i.e. on the big screen or the small screen).
Here's a video clip of the SlingCatcher in action:
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As Daisy Whitney of TVWeek points out in her comment to this post, I originally neglected to mention that the SlingCatcher combined with the SlingProjector lets users "Sling" TV-to-TV, as well as Web-to-TV.
Along with giving users the ability to watch their bedroom TiVo and their laptop on their living room TV, it also lets them watch their home media on TV sets located outside of the home...further decreasing the desire to ever read a book again, or rent a movie from the local Blockbuster near their country house.
Bottom line for the individual content consumer:
More viewing of webclips (left-side of the curve!) . . . and more viewing of episodes of their favorite shows like "House" (the right-side of the curve!) . . . and less of the mid-level content (mediocre network shows) . . . the stuff that falls out of the middle of the Curve in the post-DVR world.