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Ends at 10PM PDT. Woot! has the refurbished Slingbox Pro SB300-100 HD Set-Top Box for $170 + $5 shipping = $175 shipped. With a set of Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) inputs and a built-in digital HDTV tuner, you can truly watch all of your TV anywhere.
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I have one of these sitting in my home office. My son who is in Japan uses it to watch my cable here in the USA. He says it works great. I've tried it myself and it is pretty slick. It takes 1.5Mbps upload speed to send out anything in HD and the Slingbox program will optimize the video on the receiving end based on whatever download speed your actually getting if you so desire. I had to send the first Slingbox back after a month or so because it wouldn't power up. No hassle to exchange since it was under warranty; fast service too. They had a new one here in two days. This one has been going strong for 6 months now, powered on 24/7.
I have been involved "managing" five slingboxes (son, daughter, mine, two
for friends). I have concluded that if it works, good for you but if you
have problems you are in for a never ending battle.
I originally got a slingbox when it was still an independent company and
they worked flawlessly. Then they were bought out by one of the satellite
TV companies and it has been downhill ever since.
If something changes, like I got a new router, I could not get the slingbox
to work. I discovered that it would not accept an IP address from the new
router. I had to force my new router to go back to the old IP Address to
make it work.
If you go to the forums, forget it. I placed a question in February and got
a reply from Sling in May. And it made no sense. They were telling me I
had a firewall problem when the problem had nothing to do with firewalls.
If you try to follow the help pages you get different information and things
you cannot do. It is like the help just gives you random answers; nothing
connected to what your problem is.
If you have a working slingbox, DO NOT upgrade the firmware. I am sure that
killed the one I am trying to get working now.
And, man, if you have a problem, they love to force you to the "paid help".
Of course if it is like the forum help. Good luck!
One poster reported the person on the other end hung up when he asked for a
supervisor.
I picked up a Vulkano Flow at about half the price about six months ago. Works fine off of a Dish Network HD receiver.
Damn. I don't really need problems like Petejc has had. That sucks. I hope this thing keeps on keeping on. Anyway, I think I'll take that advice and not update the firmware unless something breaks.