The Slingcatcher has highest attractiveness to owners of any Slingbox-- it allows you to view your Slingbox directly on a TV-- with a remote control-- no need to sit with your neck craned over a laptop. But you need not be a Slingcatcher owner to appreciate some of its functionality-- it also sports two USB ports. So you can plug in thumbdrives and FAT-formatted USB external drives to view video, and digital images (or listen to music) from a variety of file formats. Of course, it has an ethernet port to enable Slingcatcher streams but (much like AppleTV) you can also