Why can't VNC work like Sling Player?

[Scott C. Best]

 	Or EchoVNC. Lots of ways to work with VNC now, without setting
up port-forwarding. Though it's analogous to the difference between
driving a stick-shift or automatic transmission -- some people want the
convenience, some want the feel of it. :)

cheers,
Scott

> Why not use Hamachi?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Parish
> Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 7:29 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: stephen "at" sptv.demon.co.uk
> Subject: Why can't VNC work like Sling Player?
>
> It's so easy to get Sling Player to connect from work, through the company
> firewall to the Slingbox server running at home, and I can happily use the
> keyboard and mouse to remotely control the satellite receiver, and get TV
> pictures back, just like the screen I wish I could get using VNC.
>
> All I had to do was type in the address of my workplace socks server into
> Sling Player running on the PC at work, and that was it.
>
> Why on Earth can't VNC work as easy as this?

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