Curiosity teardown: SlingBox

Anyone remember the Slingbox? It was a video streaming box that would let you stream any video source in your house to another location on the internet . It was intended to let you watch your hometown TV while you were travelling.

I say "was" because it relied on a cloud server that the manufacturer shut down, bricking the boxes that people had bought.

Anyway, I found this one on the curb, so let's tear it down and see what's inside.

There was a community project to resurrect these, but it needed some security credentials to be pulled from the Sling server, which is no longer online...

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