SlingLink Powerline Solutions: SlingBox Over Electrical Lines

SlingBox just launched the SlingLink TURBO 1 ($99.99) and SlingLink TURBO 4 ($149.99) for home users. These powerline routers allow you to connect to your SlingBox over your home’s powerlines and not wirelessly or through a wireless or wired bridge.

You can get similar gear for about the same price and, in my experience, powerline hasn’t matched wireless or wired connection. However, if you love your SlingGear and want to spend some SlingCash, you’ve got a new object of affection.

As the names suggest, the TURBO 1 has one port while the TURBO 4 has four ports.

MLB hates Slingbox: pay us now!!!

MLB is pretty unhappy about the SlingBox, saying that people who use the device to watch out-of-market games on their home televisions are breaking the law. Of course, they're just unhappy because people have figured out ways to get more sports without having to pay for it, which always makes the league angry.

There aren't really specific rules related to flinging video, so Sling isn't in violation of anything in particular, but the way it's worded, MLB is sure that there's nothing good going on, either, so they're going to get to the bottom of it. The NFL, on the other hand, have set very specific rules against online video, and they totally know when one of them has been violated.

Yet another reason why the NFL is the richest league in all of professional sports.

Read the article after the jump. [Arstechnica.com]