Sling Launches Its Hulu Competitor, But On A Leash

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Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has finally launched its widely anticipated streaming video portal much like Hulu on Sling.com
Sling offers content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM.
Arrested Development in on board, but unfortunately The Daily Show and Colbert Report aren’t available such as on Hulu.
Sling’s leg up in the space is due to it’s DVR hardware device that let’s you stream any content saved to the box on any computer or your TV. This isn’t much of a plus for those with HDMI cable’s and right now streaming is only available for Window’s users that have downloaded the plug-in.
More importantly, Hulu has Sling by the balls, because most of the content on Sling is being licensed from Hulu (better yet, NBC/Universal). This will certainly hold them back from being a head-to-head competitor as most are trying to hype it to be.
It’s going to be pretty tough to knock Hulu off it’s high horse right now, especially for players like FanCast (what happened there Comcast?)