[kirtijthorat]

An excellent move by Amazon. This is something I've been waiting for. I hope it becomes a reality though...

[dangrossman]

Buy a Slingbox, you don't need to wait. You can stream live TV to all your devices today. The one I bought in 2005 is currently sitting in my father's house, so that he can watch his home TV from the back office of his store when there are no customers.

[zackelan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox

> SlingPlayer is not available for Linux, BSD or other open source systems

Polling the HN hivemind: what are the best alternatives that do support Linux and BSD?

[dangrossman]

You can watch your Slingbox on the web on Linux, as that wiki page says in the Linux section. There's just no native app.

http://slingplayer.slingbox.com/embedded/slingplayer.php

[fpgeek]

Thanks for the tip!

The last time I tried, the standard player didn't work because it depended on their OS-specific native libraries. It's good to know that there's an alternative now.