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sling tv .. is it anything like you hoped it would be ?

Jun 25, 2015 10:47PM PDT

having had sling for a few months my assessment is it still needs quite a bit of work .. i do think its a step in the right direction but the inability to stream anything, i predict, will not go over very well with true streamers ..( well thats not completely true .. you could stream the history channells .. yaay ) and thats the core audience they're trying to reach .. i'm not sure what they're thinking up their in their ivory towers but it seems to me they're just trying to repackage ( and repackage it very poorly too i might add ) basic sattelite tv .. no more no less .. why not just put up a dish ?? and thats the catch .. why won't we ?? uhhh.. because we already been there and done that a got the t shirt .. we don't want basic cable .. we want to stream content .. streaming is the future .. not the same old same old .. so with the mass exodus of sling subscribers who tried it and quit it who here is wondering when dish (slings parent co, ) is gonna catch on ?? how many have tried it and won't go back ?? how many would give it a second try if you could truly stream ??

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no opinions ??
Jun 28, 2015 2:59AM PDT

there's nobody here who has tried sling and has anything to add yay or nay about sling ?? you gotta be kiddin me ?? i thought this was a technology type of place ??

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Not something that works for me.
Jun 28, 2015 7:34AM PDT

The lack of HDMI input support. The industry forbade that as noted at http://www.slingbox.com/hdmi so I'm using other methods to timeshift if I want to.

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r.proffitt and sling tv
Jun 28, 2015 9:13AM PDT

i wasn't refering to an actual slingbox .. in fact i didn't even know that sling had its own box . i accessed sling thru my roku but you could probably get it thru an apple tv or amazon firestick or maybe even thru an xbox too .. and probably a few other ways i'm not aware of ( i didn't even know they had their own box so that should tell you somethin ) what i was actually refering to was the actual sling subscription for 20 bucks a month plus tax .. does anyone here have anything at all to say about sling one way or the other ?? good or bad ?? i know what my experience was .. tell me about yours ..

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Monthly fees.
Jun 28, 2015 10:23AM PDT

Sorry but I tend to solve such with my own workarounds rather than sign up for more monthly fees. Since what ever I want can be on a 2TB HDD that's plugged into our home router and we have a HD HomeRun Dual HDTV for recording, Sling didn't have a chance with selling this to me.

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Sling TV Channels
Jul 1, 2015 8:40AM PDT

So far I am not too impressed with Sling TV. no issues with streaming. picture quality is good. i called the support line today to ask about the weather channel. all the articles i have read say that TWC will be added by July. the guy i talked with , who had an accent so strong i barely was able to make out what he was saying said that TWC is coming but no idea when. im not a huge weather fan but i think it would make Sling TV better. Also, ESPN blacks out baseball games. WHY???? blacked out sports defeats the purpose. so no, Sling TV is not what i hoped it would be.

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The joy of Sling
Nov 26, 2015 3:58PM PST

Sling is a great idea that I hope one day will work.I've been kicked off the Sling site on FB for making negative but truthful comments.Now their giving you HBO free to sample for a few days which would be a good thing if it worked.Trying to watch John Adams turned onto a constant freezing of the picture.If I was able I'd complain on FB to which I'd get Sling blaming my pc or internet connection...once they blamed my tv.Maybe they should have perfected Sling before it was offered to the public.Hom many others have been kicked off Sling FB?I'm curious to know.