A:AnswerThe Slingbox provides the living room viewing experience, no matter where you are. While this allows you to access and control your TV and recorded content, it also means that you're going to end up "fighting" over the remote if you and your Dad want to watch different programs at the same time.
The only real alternative would be to connect the Slingbox to a set-top box in a room that doesn't get much use or to have a set-top box dedicated to the Slingbox.
A:AnswerYes, you can view programs recorded on your DVR.
If your Slingbox is setup in a location with a DVR, cable or satellite set-top box, you'll be able to control those devices as though from your computer or mobile device as though you were sitting on the couch at home.
A:AnswerYou need Cable Service at HOME to get a TV channel, Internet service at HOME to send the signal out to the web, and Internet service (Wi-Fi, Ethernet RJ45 Jack, or 4G/LTE wherever you are remotely watching on your smart phone, tablet, or laptop to see the TV signal.
A:AnswerIt is possible because it uses the 5 cable competent system, versus the three cable system. The five cable system has 3 video, and 2 audio input/out put. The three system as 1 video, and 2 Audio. It boils down to an RGB set of cables on the five system and you get HD.
A:AnswerQuestion 1: Yes, the Slingbox will work with a TiVo DVR.
Question 2: Yes, you would connect the component or composite video outputs from the TiVo to the corresponding Slingbox inputs.
Question 3: To connect a Slingbox 350 to your wireless network, you'd need a wireless bridge or gaming adapter to the Slingbox's ethernet port. While we don't actually support these types of connections if you run into issues (you'd have to contact the manufacturer of the wireless bridge), there's no reason it shouldn't work just fine. You could also purchase a Slingbox 500, which has built-in Wi-Fi, on-screen setup, and support for HDMI, among other features.
A:AnswerThe Slingbox allows one user to stream video at a given time -- regardless of whether they're in the a different room of the same house where the Slingbox is set up, or sitting in an airport 3000 miles away, waiting for a connecting flight.
However, if you're trying to watch your home TV while your son is actively streaming from a remote location, you'll have to watch the same programming, since whatever he watches will change what you're watching and vice versa.
Depending on how disruptive the experience is, you may consider obtaining a separate set-top box from your cable provider as a dedicated video source for your Slingbox. This would avoid any viewing conflicts with local viewers. Of course, your TV provider may charge for the additional equipment, so you should research this option before you make a decision.
A:AnswerSlingbox only allows video streaming. As you know it takes the video signal from your cable box and send it onto the Internet. Slingbox cannot replace a cable box.
What we did....... We dropped Irect TV. I went to Best Buy a picked up an antenna. ChannelStream 4V. This is a directional antenna. I mounted it on our roof with the bracket that came with it. Attached a RG6 wire and ran it over to our direct tv antenna. Disconnected the wire from our direct tv antenna and attached that wire to my new RG6 antenna wire. Had to add a male adapter to join the wire together. By doing this I am sending my antenna signal to all our rooms. I went to each tv and removed the cable box and took the wire from the wall port and attached it to the back of each tv. I took out the TV REMOTE (not the cable box remote). Select input and switched to antenna. The tv does a search for channels . We ended up with 28 HD OVER THE AIR channels. We got all the major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX and more.
Now.... We like hallmark, lifetime, ESPN, history, HGTV, etc. these are not over the air. So we purchased a Roku-3 and connect it to one tv to try it out. This device connected out tv to the Internet. Most of the new tv are smart tv and have an Internet connection but ours is three years old.
Roku-3 gives you over 2,000 Apps. We added a pay App called SlingTV $20 per month. SlingTV is not connect to SlingBox. Two different companies. SlingTV is ones by DishNetworks. There is no contracts, etc.
Anyways our $20 gives us 22 Internet channels like ESPN, ESPN2, DISNEY, HISTORY, TNT, A&E, HGTV, HALLMARK, etc. the LOSS WHEN you drop cable, no tvguide ( I U.S. The TvGuide App on my iPad).
No way to record ( we we miss a show I go to the channel web site the next day and were able to watch the show for free) or one can purchase a ChannelMaster 750 DVR for $399. This unit allows you to record two shows at once and being connected to the Internet it gives you a nice TV guide. So far we are getting by without the DVR. YOU HAVE Cox, just disconnect the cable as it enters you house and connect your antenna wire to where the Cox cable use to be attached.
A:AnswerThanks for your question!
Is it possible that are not using the same email address to login and watch the Slingbox that was used when it was originally setup?
If this is certainly not the case I would advise you reach out to our support team either by online chat or over the phone:
http://support.slingbox.com/Contact
A:AnswerYes – all you need is an Internet connection. You can access the Slingbox via a laptop, desktop, smartphone or tablet ... or via connected devices to watch on another TV.
A:AnswerYour question can be interpreted in a couple of ways: Yes, it's possible to stream from a Slingbox to a remote location outside its home country. It's also possible to take the Slingbox to a different country and still have the unit work properly. However, the Slingbox 350 and 500 are currently only supported for use in the U.S. and Canada, so we cannot predict what its behavior would be if the unit were used somewhere other than the supported locales.
A:AnswerFor best quality HD picture you need 2-3 Mbps. You need this as UPLOAD speed at the location of the slingbox (some internet connections and providers are well below this for upload)
You also need that same speed for download at the location that you are watching.
A:AnswerYour set top box (cable,Directv or Dish) hooks to your Slingbox to send the signal to a connected streaming device in another state even country. So, first you must have the set top box just like you would have to have to watch programming on your home tv. Then you are connecting the Slingbox to that set top box. At the other end, you have one of the 5 connected streaming devices receiving the signal (Roku 3,Apple TV, WD TV Live, Netgear or Sony TV with Google internet).
A:AnswerI am not sure if this is a good way to go about this, but I have done this at a friends house with the addition of an iPad and an Apple TV. The AppleTV is connected to the HDTV, the iPad receives the "slinged video" from your slingbox over the internet ... in the iPad app turn on AirPlay in the slingplayer app, this will then start it playing on the AppleTV connected to your HDTV.
This is a good solution if you already have an iPad and AppleTV, if not ... this is a very expensive option. Of course, those devices do a lot of other things too. ;)
Hope this helps, and that others will chime in with the way they have tried to do this.
