Review on 📺 Slingbox 350 by Sling Media (Legacy Edition) by Will Ridpath

The IDEA behind the Slingbox is fantastic. The ability to watch DVR programs remotely is a feature that honestly should be STANDARD in today's world, but cable TV providers prefer not to allow or overwhelm it. FiOS is now starting to offer, and it's only just started appearing on the Comcast X1 platform, but then again, you're paying way too much for the service. One of the satellite providers offers it directly. I bought it to watch DVR broadcasts recorded in another house. Granted, it works, but the video quality is terrible. and the endless delays between the key press and the actual action (assuming it's actually the right key!) and the buffering of delays and pauses during playback unfortunately make this purchase almost useless. As an example, I tried to use it last night. I connected my iPad 2 to Slingbox and clicked the LiveTV feature and then clicked the My DVR button to watch the recorded shows. It literally took 20-30 SECONDS after EVERY button press on the remote to actually act on the slingshot. The first recorded show was a NASCAR race. I needed to get to the second page of the records. I pushed the side down, waited my 30 seconds and the race began. So after painstakingly slowly returning to the list of DVR recordings, I decided to take the PageDown button with me and just try the down arrow. Again it played a race. I think my sling wanted to see the race but I didn't. Again we laboriously went back to the DVR list, pressed and HOLD the page down button and after 20 seconds (quickly!) it went to the next page! Unfortunately, that win was short-lived as when I hit the down arrow again it went to the show folder at the top of the second page instead of Fargo, which I was trying to see. This went on for literally 30 minutes before I gave up, we watched everything Slingbox let us watch. But it paused throughout playback, sometimes for about a minute and more often for 10-15 seconds, and then started again. It was terrible. Furthermore, the video quality was so bad it was painful (and I have component connections from the DVR to the Sling). I would like to note here that I have read many comments that the problem is not necessarily with Slingbox but with the cable service. This is quite a possible factor, but I wasn't using Wi-Fi connections (all wired Cat 5e lines to the devices) and while this particular example was on a Sunday night, I've had similar if not the same on almost all of them Experience trying to use this device. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. that the problem is not necessarily with Slingbox, but with the cable service. This is quite a possible factor, but I wasn't using Wi-Fi connections (all wired Cat 5e lines to the devices) and while this particular example was on a Sunday night, I've had similar if not the same on almost all of them Experience trying to use this device. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. that the problem is not necessarily with Slingbox, but with the cable service. This is quite a possible factor, but I didn't use Wi-Fi connections (all wired Cat 5e lines to the devices), and although this particular example took place on a Sunday evening, I've had similar if not the same experience trying to use this device on almost all of them. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. to use this device. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. to use this device. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't. I want to love this device and I want it to work so I highly recommend it - I love it. But with months of experience like this, I just can't.