It's not often I like to comment much about modern day products, but it was with great pleasure that late last night I installed my newly purchased Sling Media Slingbox SOLO and SlingLink TURBO 1 PORT, both from Sling Media. In short, the Slingbox line allows you to watch your television, DVR or other video source from your laptop or compatible cell phone (the coolest part!) from anywhere in the world you have an Internet connection. While that's impressive conceptually in its own right, what absolutely blew me away was the brain dead setup and installation, which was literally a matter of plugging stuff in, turning it on, then confirming a few settings. As I know most of you reading this are technology enthusiasts like I am, I know you can relate to how truly phenomenal such an ease-of-setup accomplishment like that is--more often than not we have to work hours on end to get something working the way that it should, particularly something with such an ambitious use such as this. Let me start by describing my setup at home and then the process for making this work...