Sling Media has announced that SlingPlayer Mobile is now available in the U.S. for select Nokia Nseries and Eseries devices running S60 3rd edition software on Symbian OS. This comes just as sales of the new HSDPA version of the Nokia N95 begin in the U.S.

With SlingPlayer Mobile, users can view whatever is playing on their TVs on their Nseries and Eseries mobile phones. SlingPlayer Mobile users can also control their home digital video recorder (DVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, rewind and fast forward live TV, or even program new recordings while on the road.

To sweeten things even further, Sling Media is offering Nokia N95 current and future handset owners in the U.S. a discount on Slingbox AV for a limited time. In addition, all U.S. Nokia N95 customers will receive a free version of SlingPlayer Mobile.

Apple recently filed a patent on what could be some kind of total home entertainment system that will read music and video from just about every medium from iPods, computers or stand-alone DVD players.

The device may be an enhancement to the already-released Apple TV or may also be an entirely different device in itself. It was also speculated that the device may record media or stream data similar to a Slingbox.

The patent says that this Apple concept is segmented - divided into different modules - and has a central hub coordinating the exchanges. Of course, the user will be able to call the shots in a multitude of ways. Theories that a mouse and keyboard, a remote control or the iPhone can be used to direct everything have surfaced, although no confirmations have been made.

If Apple follows its innovative tradition of allowing third parties to create products that will enhance the system, firms will be likely to get in a rush to capitalize on this market opportunity. Still, everything's still just a patent at this point and a lot of modifications may still be made. We'll keep you posted for new developments. If you want to read more about this new Apple brainchild, follow the read URL.

Reports of Sling Media working on making their Slingbox placeshifting device compatible with Apple's new Apple TV have been confirmed according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The confirmation was reportedly made by Dave Zatz, an employee at Sling Media.

For those who have yet to encounter it, the Slingbox is a TV streaming device that lets users stream and view video from their AV sources (DVD player, TiVo, etc.) remotely on their Internet-capable PCs. It also has an IR blaster that lets users control their AV source as if they were in their living rooms and using a standard remote control.

The report from The Unofficial Apple Weblog says that the Slingbox Pro will apparently connect to the Apple TV via the component outputs. It will give users access not only to their videos but also to their entire iTunes library. Users can also reduce bandwidth by choosing audio only mode on the SlingPlayer software.

Gizmodo writer Eric Lam gave a reaction and correction post to CNET's Erica Ogg for her article discussing how iTunes may be streamed to a mobile phone in the future. The CNET write-up got a lot of fans excited until Lam burst the bubble.

Lam explained that the article does hold some water in terms of feasibility, but there's a lot more to it than just having your phone synced with a computer or iPod.

"What they're talking about is using the excellent, yet non-specific ability of a Slingbox to stream iTunes to an Apple TV," says Lam, "using a HD equipped Slingbox Pro to stream Apple TV to your Sling Client-equipped Palm, or Windows Mobile phone."

Lam also said that there's a fat chance that iPhone wouldn't support Sling videos. Audio should be a non-issue, but unless there's a drastic change in the last stages of the iPhone, that would be a smart prediction.

"The article speaks of future support, but isn't this possible with the mere addition of a few IR codes?" asks the Gizmodo scribe.

Sling Media recently announced that its SlingPlayer Mobile TV software is free, for a limited time, to new Slingbox owners who buy and register their Slingbox between August 15 and September 16 of this year. Those who buy and register their new Slingboxes on the aforementinoed dates will receive a free registration key for the SlingPlayer Mobile software which normally costs $29.99.

SlingPlayer Mobile is a software package that lets Slingbox owners watch and control their home TV from any network-enabled mobile phone or PDA powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. It supports any type of Internet connection on your mobile device, including 3G cellular services such as EV-DO or UMTS, Wi-Fi USB or Bluetooth-based connections.

Recently, Sling Media announced that they have began offering a beta version of their SlingPlayer Mobile application that is suitable for Microsoft Windows Smartphone-based devices such as the Motorola Q and the T-Mobile SDA. In case you have no idea what in the world a SlingBox is, it is a device that allows consumers to access their home TV content from a remote location using the PC based SlingPlayer application.

In this video, you would see a quick demo of a SlingBox Mobile beta application for the MS Smartphone platform specifically the Moto Q. You would find more info about this at Sling media's website.