Slingbox

[rsmith159]

Does anybody use Slingbox to get live TV from your home via internet? If you do can you give some idea of data usage when using 4G connection. Also is there a way to get the feed from the receiving device to a television, maybe via internet ready dvd or game console?

Rick in Cobourg

[wa8yxm]

The problem with streaming movies over the web, or Television shows, (This includes Slingbox) is the bandwidth.. Most of the better video compression methods (If you want quality video) burn about a gig an hour.


Now if you are in a hotel with multiple T-level access and more bandwidth than you can possibly eat.. Slingbox is great.

I have seen some low-quality scemes at a quarter Gig and some very high higher (2 or more Gigs per hour)

So, if you are using park WI-Fi. you wont' be making friends, and if you are using your own cellular or satellite, you will quickly burn through your data alotment. Thus the best ways to view are this.

Rip a DVD or blue ray to hard drive and transfer to portable device
Record over the air (or cable or Sat) television with a DVR that can transfer to the portable device (My ReplayTVs do that, I have like 200 hours of movies stored on this comptuer can bel played on comp, tablet, android phone or streamed back to the Replays for viewing on the televisions).

[SCVJeff]

Being 4G doesn't mean anything. The Sling will throttle the itself to the maximum thruput it can obtain... All of it. If you have a solid 8mb connection on both ends, that's what it will use. I look at OTA from a Sling in Salt Lake on 100Mb circuits and have seen thruput exceeding 8.

[uterep]

Google XBMC ..every thing you want in online TV

[Bill_Satellite]

Even if you could make it work you would eat up all of your cellular bandwidth before the month was a few days old. That's why you don't see much of a discussion on this kind of topic.

[rsmith159]

Thanks 2oldman, I did the search too, but most of those posts don't really address my questions.

Rick

[2oldman]

Some Slingbox posts