Slingbox review
Jan. 11th, 2008 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotusbiosmSo, for Christmas, my mother bought my father a SlingBox. And my father set me up with the code so I can use it.
Basically, a Slingbox is a device that allows you to control your television remotely via the Internet. This includes your DVR if you have one.
I love it. Some of the functionality is impacted by the speed of your connection, of course, but it's great.
You connect to your slingbox, and a picture of your remote shows up, which is how you control the television. It's not as fast as channel surfing would be, but it works. It slows down when I pull up the menu, but otherwise, no complaints. The picture quality is excellent, much better than the results I've had with streaming video from other sources. It doesn't like it if you expand the picture too much, but that's not surprising.
Only one person can use it at a time, and it remotely controls the television, so if I connect to the slingbox and change the channel, it changes the channel on the TV it's hooked up to, which is why Dad hooked it up to one they don't use much.
The interface though is nicely designed, and I love that the remote pops up as an actual picture of the remote you really have, so you don't have to deal with buttons that don't work on your cable box/tv.
Basically, a Slingbox is a device that allows you to control your television remotely via the Internet. This includes your DVR if you have one.
I love it. Some of the functionality is impacted by the speed of your connection, of course, but it's great.
You connect to your slingbox, and a picture of your remote shows up, which is how you control the television. It's not as fast as channel surfing would be, but it works. It slows down when I pull up the menu, but otherwise, no complaints. The picture quality is excellent, much better than the results I've had with streaming video from other sources. It doesn't like it if you expand the picture too much, but that's not surprising.
Only one person can use it at a time, and it remotely controls the television, so if I connect to the slingbox and change the channel, it changes the channel on the TV it's hooked up to, which is why Dad hooked it up to one they don't use much.
The interface though is nicely designed, and I love that the remote pops up as an actual picture of the remote you really have, so you don't have to deal with buttons that don't work on your cable box/tv.
