Looks like Comcast and SlingMedia have a couple of diffferent gadgets they are looking at….

From:

http://webcast.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=415299#

Comcast has designs for two new devices that would pry TV programming loose from subscribers’ living-room television sets—products clearly intended to protect its core cable video business from emerging Internet-delivered content players. Last fall Comcast registered for trademark protection for AnyReach, a portable TV and video player, and XtraScreen, which appears to provide a way to sling television content to computers over a wireless connection. The AnyReach filing describes a handheld media player for recording and playing back audio and video, and alludes to “broadcasting and streaming” of media to portable devices. XtraScreen covers “computer hardware and software for streaming audio and video content,” as well as wireless transmission of voice, data, images and information. The trademark application also refers to entertainment services providing television programming via a “global computer network” and wireless networks…….

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