Sling Media has an exciting announcement to make: soon, you will not be restricted to the television or computer to watch your favorite TV shows. Instead, you’ll be able to use just about any mobile device. From tv.com:

Sling Media is expected to announce Thursday that consumers can use a wide range of mobile devices to watch their home television from anywhere in the world. The company is set to unveil new software that adds this capability to its Slingbox hardware product this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Sling Media cofounder and head of business development Jason Krikorian said that support for mobile devices has always been part of the company’s vision but that the initial focus was on the PC because of the broadband connection.

“There are solutions for live and recorded TV on mobile phones, but now for the first time you can have full access to every single channel you’ve got at your house,” he said. “It’s not just a TV experience on your phone; it’s your TV experience, like you have at home when you’re on your couch.”

The new mobile client, as the software is known, works with any device that uses Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0 or 5.0. A visual version of a remote control pops up on the screen, making it a fairly straightforward process to choose whether to watch television live from a home cable set-top box or satellite receiver or something recorded on a digital video recorder.

“You can watch your home TiVo from the back seat of a car driving on the 101,” Krikorian said.

“You can watch Lost the day after it airs without paying two bucks,” added Sling Media PR director Brian Jaquet, in a reference to the television programs sold on Apple’s iTunes for viewing on an iPod.

Wonderful news for TV fans…though perhaps too much temptation for us TV addicts.

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