Tom Shirley
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Just curious if anyone has any experience with Slingbox. I just bought one so my son can watch Red Sox games while at school. He goes to school in NY and the games are not broadcast there.
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Thomas Rogers
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No experience with that device, but I am a video on-demand engineer so I do have a passing interesting in the Slingbox. Teskicks, let us know how you like it.
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Jacob Dryer
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I've set one up for a client. Works descent. I have to assume you are planning on watching the games too so no big deal then. But if he wants anything else he controls one of the tv's basicly.
Any specific questions about it?
Any specific questions about it?
Fer Echegaray
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JD,
Can you have 2 users in different places looking at 2 different shows from a single Slingbox?
Let's say the wife at her office watching HGTV and me in the garage watching a game?
TIA
Can you have 2 users in different places looking at 2 different shows from a single Slingbox?
Let's say the wife at her office watching HGTV and me in the garage watching a game?
TIA
Jacob Dryer
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I don't recall if you can have 2 users without 2 boxes. I know for sure that the TV that the slingbox is connected to can only display to the screen the same thing that the sling box is showing.
It's recommended that if you have a tv not used often that you hook the sling box to that so that if someone is watching something on the slingbox it's not interfering with the primary tv watching in the living room or something.
It's recommended that if you have a tv not used often that you hook the sling box to that so that if someone is watching something on the slingbox it's not interfering with the primary tv watching in the living room or something.
Tom Shirley
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I set it up so that it is not attached to a cable box. I split the data line coming into my modem and put one directly into the slingbox. The other is connected to the modem. This way he can watch any standard cable channel and won't affect our TV.
As far as I know you get one user per sling box but you can have multiple slingboxes set up if you want. I did read something about a guy who has played with a PROXY and duplicated it to get two viewers but they have to be watching the same channel.
The set up is pretty flexible. It can control more than one device as there are 3 video inputs, Coaxial, S-video and Component. There is a IR transmitter cable that you can place in front of the IR port on the device you want to control. The Slingbox will then act as the remote based on what the user does on the PC.
My biggest question is the picture quality. Does it get grainy or choppy.
As far as I know you get one user per sling box but you can have multiple slingboxes set up if you want. I did read something about a guy who has played with a PROXY and duplicated it to get two viewers but they have to be watching the same channel.
The set up is pretty flexible. It can control more than one device as there are 3 video inputs, Coaxial, S-video and Component. There is a IR transmitter cable that you can place in front of the IR port on the device you want to control. The Slingbox will then act as the remote based on what the user does on the PC.
My biggest question is the picture quality. Does it get grainy or choppy.
Jacob Dryer
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I guess that makes sense.. I was setting it up on a digital cable feed off of their cable box.
I didn't really get a chance to play with it much so I couldn't tell you if it gets a bad picture.
I didn't really get a chance to play with it much so I couldn't tell you if it gets a bad picture.
Wes Davis
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You would need a tremendous amount of bandwidth to be able to watch two different shows/channels at the same time. I don't think this kind of bandwidth would be available to the general public.
