Review on 📺 Slingbox 350 by Sling Media (Legacy Edition) by Steven Lewis

Do not buy! Bought a little over a year ago. Refused to pay $15 for iPhone apps but that was fine - only required outside on game day and in our practice room. Worked great until the end of the 14th football season. I used it last summer ('15) and was bombarded with ads. I had to install a plugin that would disable the ad-free interface I had before and insert ads on startup and place banner ads on the right side of the screen and below. Takes up a lot of space until you can expand it to full screen, which you can't do until you're past the first full screen. I've been looking into this with other owners of these devices, but two things happened today. . 1. I read an interview with a CEO trying to justify a new business model, including commercials. Full of BS. This is not a free model. We pay hundreds for boxes. We pay to connect to the boxes (internet connection and cable), we pay for phone and tablet apps $15 each, which by the way is just insult to injury after spending hundreds of devices to make this even possible works, and when we select free ones, they are full of ads and we look at ads placed in the content of the channels that we see. Most importantly, it was a new addition to reduce functionality. Products for at least one year after ownership. Imagine if you bought a new Audi last year and found out last Sunday that every time you go to your car to go to work and start it up, you're exposed to a 30-second ad that Not to be missed and must see . . . I understand the slingshot doesn't cost 45,000, but it's a premium product that you can use for free after the initial hardware cost. They just sold it to us. Post-inserting ads and forcing you to use their connection service instead of good old port forwarding straight to your IP address is just greed. Use cuisinart for audi if you have a big problem with that and imagine sitting there for 30 seconds every time you want to chop a carrot. The commercials pissed me off but what was worse a few minutes ago I walked up to the start of the show to watch a few minutes and was forced to sit through the full 30 seconds which I couldn't get over. Not only will I never again buy a Sling product or anything that I know will go to any member of this management team in the face of bankruptcy, I will never use Hancock financial services. Serious. I'm not exaggerating. That's all companies seem to understand these days. I will never buy a Copeland Chevrolet Chevy truck during Truck Month. Whoever they are, wherever they are, and Elle Goulding Unstaged tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST on amexunstaged dot com? No thanks I wasn't a fan anyway and it's 11:31 am EST oh my god who creates your promotional content? In fact, the decision has been made to break these constant offers of pre-approval Amex cards that come in the mail much more easily. Yes these are all links to ads I saw when I typed this on another monitor. Believe positive reviews for this product and 3+ star ratings. Even before I bought mine I could have sworn it had mediocre reviews for its lack of ease of setup. I told myself I could fight and make it work, which I did. I've read reviews of poor performance, video skipping, and audio/video out of sync. Well said, we have 100 down and 50 a little up. Should not be a problem. From day one we've still had constant instability issues and I swear it seems to have gotten worse since the ads were forced to swallow their throats. Whether it's a feature of a plugin I had to install or the bandwidth used to serve ads I can't say for sure, but I've tried three browsers on Mac and PC and they all perform worse now , even if the variability continues connected to the internet, which previously allowed NORAD to run. We're also seeing an increase in problems with viewing national TV events as opposed to local content - not always with speed and movement like in games - which contradicts the claim that they only use their internet for the first handshake. It also doesn't make sense why I see an advert every time I step over the remote when it just does the initial handshake - how does it know or know if I'm pressing the remote when the handshake is the only thing what they have servers are supposed to be used for? Something else is going on behind the scenes, using the bandwidth or sending it through their servers. And yes, I just said that every time I mouse over or press the remote, a banner ad pops up in the bottom right. This is happening right now in Firefox 31.0, the most stable browser I've found to play with so far, and it definitely doesn't compare to Mozilla. It's just incredibly frustrating. The company takes a product that has proven to be excellent and decides to milk regular customers with outright blackmail. It was enough that they ended support for older models and forced people who bought their product to buy new ones just because they were forced to. But that was 5 years ago or so. It's 2015 now. I can stream my cable content to almost any device anywhere in the world I travel. A VCR too, which I couldn't do a year ago when I bought this particular Slingbox model. My guess is that Sling sees the writing on the wall and tries to cash in on their existing potential customer base before finally declaring bankruptcy and laying off their staff -- using this cash robbery to stuff some gold parachutes. I may be wrong, but that's the taste I get from my recent interaction with this company, their gear, and their business practices. Beware of purchasing this or any other Sling product. Personally I worry that I will be left with a doorstop of 200.00 when they eventually go broke and shut down all the servers and infrastructure that we now have to use to connect to devices that we simply know by IP address could hack. Before. Serious. They don't have a good reputation for holding down owners of old devices when introducing new browsing methods. This company should be legally required to release a direct connection method for all their devices that bypasses their infrastructure and works even if their server goes down if that ever happens, or for users who just want to connect. straight to the devices they've already paid hundreds of dollars for and opt-out of promotional content. What was available on previous Slingshot models. Sounds easy. Also, the lack of HDMI support on this set-top box - I'm not sure but I've read about it because they don't pay for a standard HDMI license - might be misinformed, but that's what I've read all over the place. You need to run composite in your box. Very late, just pressing the virtual remote control that's three rooms away from me via a sling connected to the included IR blaster. I just restarted it and now the noose is telling me I'm running low. disk space. I have 53GB left on a 250GB drive. I mean come on How many resources do you need for video streaming? Youtube does this all day long for millions of users with little or no problem. See what's currently available to you through your ISP or cable TV provider. You can duplicate services at a fairly high cost if you don't really need them. Hope that helps!