Anyone have a Slingbox?

[TheSaint]

Tell me about it?

Have u used it with the ipadapp?

[Jackofalltrades]

No and no.

Hope I was helpful.

[Kevin Greene]

Have 2. Works great, you just need a good internet connection wherever you are accessing it.

Also have the Dish Network Droid app on my phone. Works well, again you need a strong signal or a wifi hotspot nearby.

You buy the unit, then that's it, no fees ever.

[w280sax]

Have 2. Works great, you just need a good internet connection wherever you are accessing it.

Also have the Dish Network Droid app on my phone. Works well, again you need a strong signal or a wifi hotspot nearby.

You buy the unit, then that's it, no fees ever.

Ditto. I love my SlingBox and using it on my phone is just badass.

Don't have an ipad as apple is the devil.

[mav1234]

I was looking into a Slingbox - can anyone explain it a bit to me?

I'm in a house with 0 chance of cable wiring to my room, but we do have a cable line in to a room down stairs... (but no TV hooked up to it)

From what I understand, you plug it in to your cable box, then plug it in to a TV, and it acts like wifi TV? Is that true? What else can it do? Can I watch TV on my PC with it?

I have also heard only one person at a time can watch TV with it - is that true?

[TheSaint]

Have 2. Works great, you just need a good internet connection wherever you are accessing it.

Also have the Dish Network Droid app on my phone. Works well, again you need a strong signal or a wifi hotspot nearby.

You buy the unit, then that's it, no fees ever.

Ditto. I love my SlingBox and using it on my phone is just badass.

Don't have an ipad as apple is the devil.

Thanks guys

[w280sax]

I was looking into a Slingbox - can anyone explain it a bit to me?

I'm in a house with 0 chance of cable wiring to my room, but we do have a cable line in to a room down stairs... (but no TV hooked up to it)

From what I understand, you plug it in to your cable box, then plug it in to a TV, and it acts like wifi TV? Is that true? What else can it do? Can I watch TV on my PC with it?

I have also heard only one person at a time can watch TV with it - is that true?

I'm talking about the non-Dish SlingBox here (don't know about the Dish variant)

You have to connect the slingbox to your home network (it does not have any wireless capabilities built in) and a video source (Component video is the best quality -- no hdmi). From there, you can connect to it from a PC easily.

The original way to view your slung video on another TV is with a device called the SlingCatcher hooked to the receiving TV. This device is no longer available and goes for $400-500 on Ebay these days. I've heard that you can use a Google TV device since you can use the Android Sling app on it. Not sure how well that works. There has been rumors for a while that the PS3 would be able to act as a receiver for it but that has not happened yet.

So, if you want to sling your video to a computer, it's simple. To sling your video to another TV is more difficult. The easiest way would be to sling to a laptop and connect the laptop to the receiving TV via HDMI or something.

[Kevin Greene]

http://www.slingbox.com/