SlingBox Pro HD Product Review
With its competitors out of the race, Slingbox is now the only product around that can stream and remotely control your cable box over your network or the Internet, but is it any good? Find out in today's video review.
Timecodes:
01:00 - Part 1 (Unboxing and Hardware Tour)
03:28 - Part 2 (Playback options on Windows and alternative hardware)
14:59 - Part 3 (Playback options on OSX and Linux)
17:37 - Part 4 (Playback options on Mobile Devices [current and legacy])
20:37 - Part 5 (Closing and Conclusion)
Download links:
SlingPlayer Mobile Legacy Support (Windows Mobile 2003, 5, 6, PalmOS 5, 6, and Symbian) - http://mobile.slingmedia.com/
SlingPlayer 5.0.0.26 for Windows (Current version with no pre-reel YouTube video advertisements) - http://www.dishanywhere.com/sling-aut...
SlingPlayer 2 for Windows - http://support.slingbox.com/en-US/Old...
(send me a personal message or comment on this video if any of these go down)
Spring/Summer 2017 Footnote:
Since this review was published, SlingPlayer for Windows is no longer functioning properly with the SlingBox. The company has refused to issue any explanation for this bothersome issue and the "official" solution is to simply use the web plugin. The happy ending to all of this is that the web plugin is now more responsive and less buggy, so the product still remains somewhat useful, but I have the sneaking suspicion that it is only a matter of time before this goes down as well, at which point we will be at the mercy of a third party who can (hopefully) build some kind of unofficial program to work around the issue.
The Android client currently still functions properly.