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CBS to allow Slingbox users to e-mail clips of shows

by Joel Keller, posted Jan 10th 2007 5:02PM
SlingboxIt seems like CBS is really trying to get on board with this whole Internet thing. In a keynote address to the Consumer Electronics Show, President and CEO Leslie Moonves told the crowd that old and new media are pretty much the same thing now, and that networks and other content producers should embrace the newer forms of media rather than fight them, like the music industry did.

To that end, Moonves and Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian introduced a new product, called the Clip + Sling, which will get loaded into Slingboxes starting in the second quarter. What the software will allow users to do is grab clips from CBS shows and then e-mail them to friends. You may eventually be able to "mash" clips together for your friend's amusement, though I'm not sure what purpose that serves. Anyway, it seems like Moonves really likes these new-fangled video thingies -- he brought one of the YouTube guys on stage during the speech -- but I just have one question: why the hell doesn't inntertube ever freakin' work right?

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VSJ

Yeah it sounds great, until people start using it to send clips to each other then CBS will decide to sue everyone for copyright infringement...

January 11 2007 at 12:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TomB

Sounds great - until they decide to embed advertisements. Hopefully they haven't already.

January 10 2007 at 6:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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