Sling Media Slingbox PRO (SB200-100)
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Customer Review: Great for the first year, but watch out after your warranty expires
Summary: 2 Stars
I take back every nice thing I've ever said about Slingbox. Based on my recent experiences with Slingbox support, I can no longer recommend the product. Slingbox seems to feel free to push out software updates that will break the Slingbox, and then if you've owned the box for more than 12 months they want to charge you $29 per call to discuss the problem.
After a recent software update, my Slingbox Pro now thinks that "it was not originally designed to be used in the USA" and has forgotten all of the remote control settings. For the record, the Slingbox has only been used in the U.S. (California, specifically).
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I should point out that this experience is a marked contrast to the support that I've received on other pieces of home networking hardware, including routers from DLINK, Buffalo, and Netgear.
I suspect that all it would take to get my system back up and running would be to revert to the earlier software version, but the tech support folks refused to provide me with those files.
Customer Review: Do not buy a slingbox until they drop the support charges.
Summary: 1 Stars
Do not buy a slingbox until they drop the support charges.
The slingbox is a nice little toy. The quality of the video is OK not HD that is for sure. The reason I gave it 1 stare is the support you get after you buy it. After 90 days they want to charge you for help. You can go to their website for help but it is very limited. After having the HD slingbox for a time I got a phone that I could get my slingbox to play on. I purchased the software for the phone and downloaded it to my phone. I could not get it to work and could not find any help on the slingbox website, because the sligbox was more then 90 days old, I was told I would have to buy support help at either a Pay Per Incident Support for $29.99 or Sling Media Extended Care at $49.99. I think any company that charges $299.00 for the box $50.00 for the HD cable and 29.99 for the software to work on a phone and only gives you support for their product for 90 days should be ashamed of them selves. Do not buy a slingbox until they drop the support charges.
Customer Review: even better than original Slingbox
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a Slingbox because I live and work in Europe and like to keep up with all sorts of American sports. Last year I installed an original Slingbox at my home in Ann Arbor. It's been great. I have 'Slinged' at my apartment in Budapest and all over the US and Europe using my laptop and wifi connections.
Sling Media does a great job of upgrading/updating its software improving picture resolution. I upgraded to the Slingbox PRO and have seen a significant improvement in the picture quality. I don't know if it's really the 400 times improvement over the original Slingbox that Sling Media claims, but it really gives a much crisper pictures at large viewing sizes. As with the original Slinbox, setup can be a little tricky especially for those with little experience in setting up wireless networks/devices. In my case, I had to play around with some network settings.
If you're deciding between the original Slingbox and the Slingbox PRO, I would make the extra investment in the Slingbox PRO.
Customer Review: Love, Love, Love It!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I investigated this product about a year ago when I anticipated traveling and wanted to see my local news and sports. I moved also and found that it would be very expensive to have wiring installed in a rental property in order to have access where I wanted to locate my home office, I checked into Slingbox again. After hearing a presentation by David Pogue, I asked him what he thought of Slingbox. I was concerned about some problems expressed by users with other IR devices interfering with the signal. He said he loved his and if you have a problem just change the phone nearest to the signal to a different megahertz phone. I ordered from Amazon that night and actually received it the next day. Connected, no interference problem, love, love, love it!! Clear instructions,clear packaging, just make sure you really push the IR connection all the way in. It's almost a two step push. I'm watching the local news as I type this. Best thing I've bought for my computer in years.Customer Review: Slingbox Pro
Summary: 5 Stars
Easy to setup, no hassles.When I tried it under a new laptop w/ Mcafee I had to do some tweaking to get it to work, (problem w/ Mcafee not slingplayer. Quality is not stellar when slinging away from home (my connection is tested at 500k upload) but its still very viewable, nothing beats being able to access your dvr'ed shows WHEREVER!! It's actually useful when you forget to program a recording and want to do it remotely. Slinging at home (on your local network) picture quality is very good, similar to a good tv tuner card. Great for someone in the military who wants to watch their local hometown programming and/or is to cheap to pay for cable of their own (My brothers case). Slinging on a pda is actually very viewable, but the 30 bucks EXTRA!?! for the pda software is kind of extreme. (I used the thirty day trial and liked it but couldn't justify $30 more on top of over $200 for the box just to view my own hardware, thats why I returned Sony's attempt at this same thing.)