They supported the San Francisco Giants, a Major League Baseball team whose games were broadcast regularly by their local TV station.

[13][14] Sling used an Amazon Web Services-based infrastructure[15][16] to support encoding, relaying streams and analytics.

It also sourced data from multiple repositories to help guide recommendations to users, including social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and specialty services like Thuuz for sports.

Sling initially offered a desktop application for Windows and the Macintosh, which was deprecated when the Slingbox Watch website was released.

Watch is a NPAPI-based browser plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.

In July 2014, Sling announced the return of the Slingplayer for Desktop application with the launch of the Slingbox M1 and SlingTV.

[23] In addition to the Watch Slingbox website, customers can purchase a SlingPlayer app for their mobile device.

[27] This change was made externally by AT&T as the SlingPlayer App already features quality scaling of content based on connection type.