CLOSEOUT Sling Media Slingbox Watch and Control your TV Anywhere - SB100100
It actually works !
I am an early adopter and often buy new products with low expectation that they actually work. In this case I was very positively surprised and I do recommend to purchase this product even is you are not a techie : it works really well and it is surprisingly easy to set up. I connected the Sling to my Tivo and to my home network via a wireless bridge (Linksys WET54GS5); and everything worked really fine.  I could  watch TV/Tivo right away from a wireless laptop or a wired desktop in my apartment. The set up for external access through the internet required to use a simple wizard and to open and forward a port in my home gateway. With some home gateway, I guess it can be done automatically; in my case, I had to do it manually but it is very easy provided you know what you do. Once it is done, everything else is automated, you just connect your computer to the internet and launch the player to start watching TV (I guess the Sling box automatically sends your external IP address to the Sling server, where the player can get it from). The quality of the picture varies with the available bandwidth. With 200KB/s the picture is acceptable, I got 500KB/s through the internet and the picture was very good. From within my home network, I achieved 1MB/s and more and the picture was good even in full-screen mode on a 17\\" monitor. In general the quality of the picture is higher than what news and TV website stream. UPDATE : I have had the sling now for a month and a half and I have been able to test it from airport lounges and hotel rooms around the world; I haven't had any problem as long as the bandwith was above 150-200Kb/S.