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February 4th, 2013Home Theater
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Reg. Price : $ 179.99
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Product Description
Slingbox 350 turns your laptop, tablet or smartphone into a TV. Now your TV can go with you wherever you go. Easily connect the Slingbox 350 to any of your home theater sources. Watch your favorite shows, sporting events or special programs on your PC, Mac®, tablet, smartphone or connected TV over the Internet, from anywhere in the world. Take complete control of your TV with the easy to use on-screen remote control and program guide. A great value, the Slingbox 350 provides superb picture quality at a new low price. WATCH YOUR TV ANYWHERE. At home, around town, around the world. With a Slingbox, you can watch and control your TV and all of its programming, live, over the Internet on your PC, Mac®, tablet, smartphone or conne
Features
- Extend your living room TV experience in sparkling 1080p high definition.
- Connects to your digital video recorder (DVR), cable set-top box or satellite receiver via component or composite sources.
- Ethernet connectivity
- Compact design
- Watch and control your TV and all of its programming on your compatible smartphone or tablet using SlingPlayer software (sold separately).
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Very disappointed,
With this generation Sling has significantly reduced the feature set, compared to the older models. I previously owned two pro-hd units and was pretty happy with them. When one died I got a 350 to replace it – but it just doesn’t cut it. Back it goes. You can’t do advanced network configuration to control the IP address or port used by the box. So if you have a home network with more than one router – really anything but a simple, basic network – you get problems such as all traffic being routed through your external IP, even when watching locally on the LAN. Lack of port control makes it impossible to use two boxes on the same network. That seems like a revenue-limiting decision by Sling, so you have to wonder what they are thinking.
Antenna inputs have been removed – only composite and component. (The 500 has HDMI as well but that’s of questionable value given copy protection on HDMI. Not their fault but if you have to connect component anyway, what value does HDMI add?)
Also they stopped supporting the PC-based player – unfortunate; you have to use the web player which means you have to have access to their site to sling at all. 90% of our use is internal to our home network so a full-local option would be good.
In general what they have done is remove things to make it cheaper and simpler, but for an advanced user it is a big letdown.
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|so far so great.,
a bit of background: been a huge fan of these slingboxes – had the original and then the proHD and when the new slingboxes came out i purchased the 500 the day it was released. i was so excited to use only a single hdmi cable. turns out you still need component cables (that’s highlighted over on my 500 review)…
so i went to the 350 since i have to have component cables wired up anyway. really happy with with the 350, the quality is just as good as the 500 and i actually preferred the web based setup over the 500′s on screen setup with the remote (alot easier to type with a proper keyboard). you cable up the 350, give it some interwebz and some power, it’ll boot up and then your computer will auto discover the box when on the slingbox site.
it does what it’s supposed to: hd placeshifting of your cable set top box at really really good quality. i dig the new form factor of the 350 (actually looks great) – takes up less space in my home theatre rig as well than the 500 (500 does look super cool to me, though).
so yeah, so far so great. five stars at this point
will be using this heavily over the next two weeks and will update this review.
well done sling. well done.
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a minor update after using the device while traveling away from home for the past week:
watched a couple shows from the device on my early 2011 mbpro and using chrome version 22. the experience has been great, the slingplayer in the browser connected up super quickly and i was able to access my dvr right away. the controls seem to have the same latency as the pro-hd, which i am fine with as there is latency using IR signals even when in the same room. the one thing i’ve noticed on all slingboxes – and i am sure there is a reason for it – is that the connection does blip at any remote input. it almost seems like the entire connection is consumed when issuing an IR remote request to the set top box (or the connection conduit for video is seemingly paused while an IR command is issued). it’s been the behavior since the beginning but it’s my one minor (if not negligible) complaint.
as i see it, you are getting a smaller form factor and the same functionality fo the pro-hd for 120 usd less (unless you are using a slingcatcher, which is not compatible with the new units i have read).
really was super impressed at the quality, and the speed at which the data rate increased or decreased when switching quality levels. on a 2mb/s hotel connection, you can get a mostly consistent better connection that looks quite nice. good seems to be where sling begins to encode the stream at smaller resolutions than the native source, as there is quite a bit of interpolation when running in full screen. for some non quantitative, intangible, reason i feel this is purely dependent on my connection and the quality settings seem to do smarter things when you have more general bandwidth available to you. i’d be interested to know how the quality logic works. perhaps i’m over thinking/hyping what they are doing. either way i like it.
still holding five stars!
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|Great Box but could be easier,
The only reason I gave this box a 4 is because for setup, the slingbox has to be wired to the same router as your “Windows” PC it doesnt support Linux which is my main Desktop computer. I borrowed a laptop to set it up. After it was setup it worked fine. My cable box is a MOXI MR1500T3 (or something like that) and when the TV is connected (HDMI) no video is output through component which is how the Slingbox 350 is connected. So when I shut off my TV the slingbox had video but would flicker every 2 seconds, as soon as I unplug the HDMI from the TV the flickering stops so I know its because of my cable box. I really dont have much bad to say about the slingbox because most of these little querks were my cable box. I ended up returning this item and purchasing the Slingbox 500 which has HDMI in and out instead of Component in and out. If you have a cable box connected to your TV with component then there is no need to purchase the 500 just get this 350 it works just as good despite not having wifi. The 500 doesnt require a PC to setup because it has an onscreen setup which is 10 times easier than PC but just remember you only have to set it up once and its $120 difference. The 500 also has a remote to navigate the on screen setup so you can enter your slingbox account info and connect to wifi and configure your inputs if you have multiples. I personally like the 500 better but only by one star and think if you dont need HDMI then get the 350, it sounds from others reviews that this new box is a huge improvement from previous slingboxes because it doesnt lock up or overheat. 350 was barely warm to the touch and never skips audio or video.
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