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- ASIN: B0019PBSV0
- Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 20 Jun 2008
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I got the Slingbox Classic to enable me to watch TV when away from home. A simple set up to hook it up to the TV/Internet, an easy to use installation wizard on my laptop and voila, I was watching TV over my home network, and later over the internet.
It uses the full bandwith of your home network to give a pretty good quality stream at home. Over the internet, it is a bit more compressed, but that is to be expected as the average 256kbps broadband upload speed isn't that great. Keep the player window smaller than fullscreen and you can't argue with being able to watch UK TV in another country!
I did have a problem with my Classic, when a firmware update went awry and the box froze in the reset process. However, one call to the Very helpful Slingmedia Support line and a new box was winging it's way to me in exchange for my old one.
I might add that I had approached expansys for the RMA support initially (as that was where I had purchased it), but I would have had to pay for the postage to them and been without a Singbox in the meantime. However, Slingmedia couriered the replacement to me and collected the old one, free of charge. A point to note should the unlikely happen!
It uses the full bandwith of your home network to give a pretty good quality stream at home. Over the internet, it is a bit more compressed, but that is to be expected as the average 256kbps broadband upload speed isn't that great. Keep the player window smaller than fullscreen and you can't argue with being able to watch UK TV in another country!
I did have a problem with my Classic, when a firmware update went awry and the box froze in the reset process. However, one call to the Very helpful Slingmedia Support line and a new box was winging it's way to me in exchange for my old one.
I might add that I had approached expansys for the RMA support initially (as that was where I had purchased it), but I would have had to pay for the postage to them and been without a Singbox in the meantime. However, Slingmedia couriered the replacement to me and collected the old one, free of charge. A point to note should the unlikely happen!
Loved the idea and it worked well for a while. Then started having some issues, have had to restart it at least once a week for the past year and this doesn't help if I want to watch my telly when I am away from home. I was advised to update firmware but it didnt help.
Excellent product for putting your TV on your wireless infrastructure, whether within the house or outside the house. We could now use our laptop to show the kid's favourite shows while feeding them on dining table or even take those along to the garden. Once I got a defect in the product within warranty period, the Slingbox company replaced the product with a "used" working unit, which (fingers crossed) has been working for quite some time. So great product, great service and a fantastic piece of technology - much have for the geeks!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great kit shame it can't control BT Vision
It works! But remember that it depands on your broadband speeds, I trailed the mobile version which also works, but in truth whatching TV on a mobile phone is hard work, I bought... Read more
Published on 26 July 2009 by M. C. Levine
5 Stars
I can't stop using it. It was easy to set-up I had a problem sorting out the remote viewing but sling media fixed it straight away it was amazing they remotely controlled my mac... Read more
Published on 13 May 2009 by S. Brears
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great device works well can now watch and control my cable box any were on mobil phone great value for money thanks
Published on 2 Mar 2009 by H. Mehmi
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