Comments on: Forbes.com interviews Sling Media’s Blake Krikorian http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/09/25/forbescom-interviews-sling-medias-blake-krikorian/ TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: HDTiVohttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/09/25/forbescom-interviews-sling-medias-blake-krikorian/comment-page-1/#comment-14405 HDTiVo Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:36:35 +0000 http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/09/25/forbescom-interviews-sling-medias-blake-krikorian/#comment-14405 I started considering that this deal might be in part about Sling dropping the hardware business; speculating that perhaps selling boxes wasn't something that looked like it would pan out as a business, and that the content activity they've been doing would become the focus.Now reading Blake's comments, I see this as a way to accomplish a hardware exit without exiting the hardware business. Sling technology embeded in other boxes that are necessary already would be the hardware focus. I started considering that this deal might be in part about Sling dropping the hardware business; speculating that perhaps selling boxes wasn’t something that looked like it would pan out as a business, and that the content activity they’ve been doing would become the focus.

Now reading Blake’s comments, I see this as a way to accomplish a hardware exit without exiting the hardware business. Sling technology embeded in other boxes that are necessary already would be the hardware focus.

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