MarketIntellNow reports on EchoStar’s Announcement
The #2 satellite TV provider, EchoStar, just bought Sling Media for $380 million and will likely spin-off a new company containing its technology assets.
Sling Media makes SlingBox, which funnels content from a user’s home TV content to any Internet-connected PC or mobile device, including WiFi-Enabled Gizmos (WEGs).
VCs had poured $57.1 million into the company in two rounds since 2004.
WEGs are for video as well as audio, where there’s Appliance Intimacy– we call it TV Me and Radio Me. The SlingBox is about anywhere, anytime media (good fit with EchoStar, which offers subscribers a 30 GB PocketDish). The PocketDish lets subscribers record TV shows or transfer photos or music to the handheld device. WEGs are about time and space shifting; they’re the ripe target for one’s own playlist….
Along with competitors like #1 satellite provider DirecTV and the cable companies, telco giants such as AT&T and Verizon Communications are offering triple play packages of voice, Internet, and TV services based on Internet Protocol. Satellite companies have yet to match the triple-play offerings.
Our ANWO survey on WEGs is complete, and the results with our accompanying analysis are now available for purchase [delivered electronically: a 35-page Powerpoint and an Excel Market Sizing model that allows "what if?" analysis], via our eStore.
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