CES 2007 Slingbox maker Sling Media is to turn its internet TV box into a content sharing platform, the company said this week. It announced Clip+Sling, a feature that will allow Slingbox owners to share short segments of TV shows with anyone connected to the net. Watching Sling get this one past the broadcasters may well prove compulsive viewing.

The key word here is 'clip', which we guess is how Sling will pitch the system to the TV industry. Clip+Sling isn't about posting recorded programmes, it will undoubtedly say, it's about letter consumers share key telly moments.

Sling didn't say how long clips can be, or how it will prevent or at least discourage folk from sharing TV shows wholesale.

CES 2007 stories

• Sling unveils 1080i-streaming Slingbox ahead of CES
• Sling Media intros simplified Slingbox
• Sling states SlingCatcher release plan
• Slingbox snapped up by satellite TV company
• EchoStar to buy Slingbox maker for $380m
• Unannounced Slingbox surfaces on the web
• Sling tosses in Windows Mobile 6 player app
• Orb turns MySpace into personal radio station
• Slingbox shrugs off video on demand
• Sling seeks SlingPlayer Palm testers
• LG pulls TV-PDA-GPS combo gadget out of pocket
• Honda unleashes stair-climbing 'droid
• Creative rolls out X-Fi audio booster kit for iPod
• Shure readies three-driver in-the-ear 'phones
• Sony develops little'n'large OLED TV panels
• HP demos touchy-feely, finger-friendly Vista media PC
• Dell calls on customers to contribute to carbon-neutral computing
• Griffin to make second-gen iPod Shuffle dockable - universally
• Warner pitches adhesive to bring HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc together
• Xbox 360 to become internet TV
• Nokia revamps Internet Tablet as 'multimedia computer'
• Flash firm campaigns to connect USB keys to TVs
• Sling shows SlingPlayer-for-TV gadget
• TDK touts compact Blu-ray Disc format

We should find out soon. The Clip+Sling software is currently in the testing phase, but Sling subsidiary Sling Media Entertainment Group - a business with the unfortunate abbreviation 'Smeg', which will prompt giggles among the mucky-minded and Red Dwarf fans - is planning to allow the public to download the pre-release code. Interested parties can apply to participate here. ®

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