I have the first sling box made so what I am learning from this thread is I need to refrain from any more firmware upgrades and player upgrades. I have no problem with that as everything works fine now except for those annoying " upgrade now" splash screens.
Love satelliteguys for the warning!
I toyed around with the app a bit more last night... it looks like the selections are bit backwards. I was able to get some 4:3 content to go full screen finally. The interface is confusing. I preferred the old one big time! The only thing that is better in this one is they have done a better job on the video. Not one stutter, break up or anything on a 15-20 minute ride across town. The audio was perfectly in sync.
The one thing that annoys me is they don't have all the video modes like they do in the PC player. I can watching 16:9 video easily(not HD res of course on my classic) on the PC player. If you want to watch 16:9 your forced to have black bars on all 4 sides. They could have easily provided the additional video sizes.
A couple of other annoying things... it doesn't remember you had the slingbox on mute like the old one did. They tried to make it all pretty and slick with the menus but now it takes more time to hunt down the options. There's no Kbps rate or FPS rate anymore. No portrait mode.
So I'm torn on which one I'm going to use now. I might have them both installed if I can hack my way around the installer.