placeshifting

placeshifting
 n.— «Sling Media Inc. on Thursday unveiled their Slingbox—a new Personal Video Recorder (PVR) that lets you redirect a live video stream from your cable or satellite TV to a computer anywhere in the house, or, through a broadband connection, anywhere on the Internet.…Sling Media calls the technique “placeshifting,” a play on the word “timeshifting,” which describes the viewing of recorded video material after it’s first broadcasted.» —“Slingbox “placeshifting” PVR Mac-bound” by Peter Cohen Macworld June 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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