Sling MediaSlingbox 500 Black

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Due to having Amazon Prime and Amazon's great return policy, I took a chance and bought this Sling Box 500 to see if I could maybe use it to watch TV on my 27" iMac. If successful, it would save me having to buy a 32" television for my office; if not, I could always return it and keep searching.Well, I'm happy to report that it worked great. Setup is not too bad. Basically, you buy the sling box and it plugs in via HDMI cables between your Dish (or other) receiver and your TV. When not in use, it basically works in a pass through sort of setup; you don't even know it's there. You can watch TV like normal and simply continue your receiver as normal.If you want to watch TV via the Sling box (for example, in my case, on my iMac in the next room), then you just use your web browser (i.e. safari) to visit the Sling box website where you can log in and watch TV via their website). I have it configured to pop open a little browser window, which has the TV inside it. This can be re-sized on your desk top and/or made full screen. There is also a little icon which, when clicked, displays a life like remote control on your desktop. You can then operate the virtual remote control almost like normal pretty much. There is also (at least for Dish) a pretty cool link which takes you to a program guide that is very easy to search and navigate. Once you find the program you are looking for, you just click it and it flips the TV over to that channel for you.There is a slight lag as compared to a normal TV experience, but not overly so. In my particular case, I'm usually switching from watching a program in the living room to on my computer, so I already know which channel I wanna watch. That cuts down on the amount of channel surfing I have to do, which tends to limit the amount of lag I have to deal with. Also, using the program guide (as opposed to just flipping through the guide on Dish itself) helps avoid any situations that might involve the perhaps 1 or 2 second lag you do experience. But for running the whole thing via wifi, I'm pretty impressed with how it all comes together. It provides a very nice viewing experience on the Mac, without having to load a lot of software, etc.My understanding is there is also an app for the iPad, but I have not purchased it, nor tested it. It's also possible to access your TV from pretty much any place you have an internet connection, but that is also something I have yet to test out.But to simply allow you to watch TV in the house on a computer, it's plenty good. Having a resizable window on the Mac is nice and being able to watch TV via our Dish Satellite box is fun.Keep in mind, however, when you watch via the Sling box, it does cut out the ability to watch the receiver where the sling box is connected up. In other words, if you have the sling box in the bedroom and you suddenly start watching TV on your computer, nobody can watch TV in the bedroom via that receiver where the sling box is attached - it's an either or situation.All in all, if you are seeking a means to watch TV on your computer, this is one options - especially for Apple, which may not support some of the other USB type tuners out there on the market.

I just don't get the concept.You can only have 1 user connected at a time. My TV supplier now offers they're own streaming app and everyone in my family can view what they want. A product like this isn't that useful.And why are there Ads? My television supplier gives me enough of those now I have an ad before loading the Sling Media player and while watching TV in window mode.This product was purchased for use in my office and is not a good fit. The office subscribes to Cogeco and the cable receiver model isn't listed so it takes a bit of searching to find a compatible model. There's no way to block out the channels we're not subscribed to and so it's a bit of guess work as to what channels we can watch. Again only 1 user can watch at a time and so for an office setting its use is almost non-existent.It's just too much money with too few features.

I came from Dish Network and They had a Sling Adapter (free) that hooked to the back of main cable box via USB and worked flawlessly. This gives hurky jerky movement when played on my Mac book and I have blazing internet speeds. Takes over the TV it's hooked too, Dish's would use any open receiver that you have on the account so someone could watch the TV the Slingbox was hooked up too. VERY big compared to last Sling device and doesn't perform as well. Don't waste your money, get dish and Sling adapter and watch all channels without any lag or jerkyness on any device. I hope dish gets the Roots SW channels soon I will go back if so. Works ok on my Note III, just hate that I will have to wait to watch TV untl my wife goes to bed. You would think Slingbox could have more technology in such a big package and large price tag. Does not work with wireless boxes with Direct TV, if you only have the HDMI hooked to Slingbox its says channels are protected on EVERY damn channel. SO DISAPPOINTED!! I've added a pic of last Sling player I was using and you can really see the difference in size, but I wish you could see the performance difference its night and day.5/20/15 Updatewhen you watch TV on cell or tablet away from the house it turns the TV on. I was working nights and wanted to watch a show. My wife is awaked by a blaring TV at 3am. WOW such a disappointment.

Nous adorons, très satisfaitLa faire programmer et installer est préférable par une personne qui connais l’informatique ou la programmation de ce genre d’appareils.De notre côté,nous avons la même manette de notre tv /maison ( a programmer à l’installation GÉNIAL) qui apparaît sur notre iPad/ ou iPhone a distance partout à travers le monde ( il suffit d’un wifi de bonne qualité)