Sling Media’s new website previously in beta mode as reported on worldtvpc’s previous post (sling media new website) has now gone ‘live’.

The new website sling.com will initially be offering over 600 free TV shows and videos placing it in direct competition with Hulu and Joost’s internet tv website services.

Sling.com is the latest of many such Internet tv websites offering premium catch up tv content, reflecting the publics ever growing desire for TV to be watched anytime, anyplace and anywhere.

Partners on the website include Fox, CBS, Sony, MSNBC, Warner Bros., Starz Entertainment, PBS and Comedy Time. You can instantly watch bang up to date episodes of 30 Rock and Survivor, or travel back in time to view the original Star Trek series.

Sling Media currently is best known for its Slingbox device which enables viewers to watch their home TV remotely from a computer, cell phone or mobile device with a high speed broadband connection.

Internet users will be able to watch Sling.com, which Sling Media is planning to make financial successful via advertising revenue sharing with its content partners.

Slingbox owners don’t have to download any special software onto a computer to watch their home TV. Sling.com makes it easy to control multiple Slingboxes through a media player or remote control called the SlingCatcher.

However its a tough market and Sling is not alone in the free online TV market.

Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and Fox, launched a similar service this year, and there are many other competitors such as Joost, Veoh, Comcast’s FanCast, MSN, MetaCafe and, of course, YouTube. Viewers can also watch TV shows online by going directly to the TV networks websites such as NBC.com and ABC.com.

Brian Jaquet, spokesman for Sling Media, said he doesn’t believe the market has too many players:- “I think this is a hot market,” he said. “Hulu has set a nice bar.”

James McQuivey, a principal analyst for Forrester Research, said by email “the market is saturated in one sense.”

But, McQuivey said, there’s little cost to building a Web site “since all Sling has to do is sign up to become a syndication partner for the TV networks.

“More importantly, the site is really just Sling’s secret strategy for delivering Internet content to the TV via the SlingCatcher (media player),” McQuivey said.

McQuivey said consumers will see more efforts to deliver Internet content to the TV.

Jaquet noted TV networks first resisted the idea of free online programming but increasingly have realized there’s little to stop such content from being ubiquitous on the Internet.

He also said a site like Sling.com can help drive more traffic to the TV networks by promoting when a TV show airs, and other episodes and aspects of the show.

We at worldtvpc dont think you can ever have enough online TV websites so keep em coming.

Sling.com is available in our catch up tv networks category.

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