Thread: Sling Media Introduces Sling Receiver 300 for Television Service Providers

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Folks...

With this unit and a 922 you now have full HD output to TV2 on your home network.

Yes the 922 can output to TV2 in HD with this box. Cool huh?

I am perfectly happy to be wrong on this one.

I guess the most use out of this setup is, three HD outputs from the 922, one TV1 HD, one Sling 300 wireless remote HD, and one Sling 150 wireless remote HD.

The next question is similar to an earlier question, can they all be used at the same time? If so, can they deliver live feeds independently at the same time or one or two remote TVs can only play back recordings if the main TV is on?

Did anyone think with all the discussion of using a less receivers to supply more displays in order to incorporate new hardware and because of fees, no single receiver can tune more than two satellite channels at once? What about situations like in the U-Verse commercial where there are more than two shows on at the same time? Personally I find the U-verse commercials a bit conservative and I know U-Verse's capabilities are not all they are made out to be, but they do have a valid point. With all the programming available now sometimes there are as many as 8 shows I want to see on all at the same time. The upside of this new technology being watching a recorded show in another location or in sharing a receiver, but the less tuners is a pretty big dowside to me. Right now I can tune six channels from satellite with three DVRs, but wish there were more. This is definately a concern if this becomes a trend.

Originally Posted by tornado

Did anyone think with all the discussion of using a less receivers to supply more displays in order to incorporate new hardware and because of fees, no single receiver can tune more than two satellite channels at once? What about situations like in the U-Verse commercial where there are more than two shows on at the same time? Personally I find the U-verse commercials a bit conservative and I know U-Verse's capabilities are not all they are made out to be, but they do have a valid point. With all the programming available now sometimes there are as many as 8 shows I want to see on all at the same time. The upside of this new technology being watching a recorded show in another location or in sharing a receiver, but the less tuners is a pretty big dowside to me. Right now I can tune six channels from satellite with three DVRs, but wish there were more. This is definately a concern if this becomes a trend.

I understand your point Tornado, I currently lease 3 dual tuner DVR's myself. However, we've got a three person household and like most everyone else out there I'm trying to cut back on expenses. When I see these new fees coming in February, I've got to weigh the convenience of having six sat tuners against saving 34 bucks a month. I think I'm going to opt for making do with 2 sat tuners. Besides, even though I live in a poor OTA reception area (I only get NBC OTA - nothing else), with the OTA module I get an extra tuner to record any NBC shows I watch. I'm also taking into consideration the fact that most of the cable stations repeat shows either the same day or very shortly afterwords, so I can record them later if there is a conflict.

Originally Posted by tornado

Did anyone think with all the discussion of using a less receivers to supply more displays in order to incorporate new hardware and because of fees, no single receiver can tune more than two satellite channels at once?

I think you will see something at next years CES show like you are describing. Somethign you put in the closet with many tuners and have one of these Sling Receivers hooked to each TV (or if the TV supports Flash have then you need no Sling receiver)

Kind of neat ehh?

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

I think you will see something at next years CES show like you are describing. Somethign you put in the closet with many tuners and have one of these Sling Receivers hooked to each TV (or if the TV supports Flash have then you need no Sling receiver)

Kind of neat ehh?

Cool Scott. Thanks.

Originally Posted by BigFella

most of the cable stations repeat shows

Valid point.

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

I think you will see something at next years CES show like you are describing. Somethign you put in the closet with many tuners and have one of these Sling Receivers hooked to each TV (or if the TV supports Flash have then you need no Sling receiver)

Kind of neat ehh?

Does not look like the direction DISH is taking though, more like the DirecTV's approach. Not too long ago Charlie said if you wanted it in another room, just get another DVR. Of course DISH can change its direction, they seemed to have done so to some degree already with the new gears in this CES.

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

Yes the 922 can output to TV2 in HD with this box. Cool huh?

What would be far cooler is if Dish would just build a DVR that can support HD on TV1 and TV2, so there's no need for extra hardware at all.

Or, and I say this as a customer, is that just too forward thinking for Dish?

Originally Posted by silvanthalas

What would be far cooler is if Dish would just build a DVR that can support HD on TV1 and TV2, so there's no need for extra hardware at all.

Or, and I say this as a customer, is that just too forward thinking for Dish?

I agree this would be cool, but I am not an average user. This would have to be in the same room because it would be difficult to run HDMI or component and audio to a different location in your house. It sounds like Dish's solution with the cool extra hardware would overcome the obstacle of long cable runs quite easily I think. I really think this stuff is cool. I do not think it is going to be easy endure the lengthy waiting period for all of this hardware. It sounds great. Just my opinion. On second thought if it could easily be added a TV2 high def output would be nice and no one knows what the charges are going to be on the sling stuff.