Product Description

The Slingbox? PRO allows you to watch and control up to four video sources?including your HD content?from anywhere in the world on your laptop or cell phone. That means you can virtually take your entire home theater with you, including your DVR, digital cable, satellite receiver, and DVD player. With the Slingbox PRO, you?ll be at home wherever you roam. YOUR HOME THEATER AWAY FROM HOME The Slingbox PRO is the perfect companion for your home theater. With the ability to watch and control up to three standard definition and one high definition video devices, the Slingbox PRO ensures that you can watch all of your favorite home theater entertainment anywhere you go. Using an Internet connected computer or compatible mobile phone*, you can watch and control your home TV, DVR, basic cable, digital cable box, or satellite receiver anywhere around your home or around the globe. With a Slingbox PRO you will never be separated from your favorite TV shows, sports broadcasts, breaking news stories, digital video recordings, or video on demand. *Requires SlingPlayer Mobile Software, Sold Separately ULTIMATE CONNECTIVITY Connect and control up to four A/V sources. This means you can access your entire home theater, including digital cable, DVD players, TiVo, or any other new-fangled contraption you may have. HD READY The Slingbox PRO is HD Component video compatible (up to 1080i) when used with the optional Slingbox HD Connect Cable. The Slingbox and SlingStream technology adapts the compressed video stream to match the available network and Internet bandwidth. This provides the best possible video quality between the Slingbox and the SlingPlayer application, whether running on a computer or mobile phone. SLINGPLAYER Included with your Slingbox PRO is SlingPlayer, the software for your Mac or Windows PC that works with the hardware inside the Slingbox to make your TV viewing experience just like that at home. SlingPlayer Mobile* lets you watch and control your

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1152 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sling Media
• Model: SB200-110
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Dimensions: 4.23 pounds

Features

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Manufacturer's Description

Which Slingbox is right for you?

The different Slingbox models are designed to fit in with your home entertainment set-up like another member of the family. It’s all about how much of your home entertainment system you want to be able to access at the same time – your cable/satellite box, DVR, DVD or other video.

Slingbox PRO

The Slingbox PRO is the perfect companion for your home theater. With the ability to watch and control one high definition video source and up to three standard definition video devices, the Slingbox PRO ensures that you can watch all of your favorite home theater entertainment anywhere you go. Using an Internet-connected computer or compatible mobile phone, you can watch and control your home TV, DVR, basic cable, digital cable box, or satellite receiver anywhere around your home or around the globe. With a Slingbox PRO you are never separated from your favorite TV shows, sports broadcasts, breaking news stories, digital video recordings, or video on demand.

UNLIMITED ACCESS (WITH NO MONTHLY FEES)
The Slingbox PRO not only allows you to watch your home television almost anywhere, but it also allows you to watch any subscription channels, special programming, or sports packages you may have – with no monthly fees. If it’s on your home TV, it’s on your computer and phone*.

YOU'RE IN FULL CONTROL
With the Slingbox PRO you have just as much control over your special programming and component devices (such as Sky+) as you do at home. You have the ability to fast-forward, rewind, pause, and everything else.

ULTIMATE CONNECTIVITY
Connect and control up to three A/V sources. This means you can access your entire home theatre, including Freeview, DVD players, SKY, or any other new-fangled contraption you may have. The Pro also has a built in DVB-T tuner.

HD READY
The Slingbox PRO is HD Component video compatible (up to 1080i) when used with the Slingbox HD Connect Cable. The Slingbox and SlingStream technology adapts the compressed video stream to match the available network and Internet bandwidth. This provides the best possible video quality between the Slingbox and the SlingPlayer application, whether running on a computer or mobile phone.

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Customer Reviews

Great gadget and brilliant back up
I was quite nervous about buying a Slingbox but really wanted to keep in touch with our sport whilst abroad - particularly having missed the Rugby World Cup whilst in Kentucky and not being able to watch our horseracing.

I bought the Pro because I wanted to be able to watch either Sky or DVDs and be able to upscale to HD when I've bought a SkyHD package. Also I thought if I was going to all this trouble I wanted the best one!

I drilled a hole between my lounge and study (where my router is) and thread an ethernet cable through - hoping that this would give a better stream than wireless.

I also had to buy a router splitter box because my Netgear router only had one Ethernet port but this was cheap and obviously simple. I've now got 5 more ports for future gadgets!

I then just loaded the software and was up and running - able to watch my TV on the study computer and able to change channels as well.

I also loaded the software onto my laptop whilst at work. I did have some problems here but rang the free Slingbox helpline and the people were absolutely great. You allow them access to your computer over a weblink and they quickly reconfigured my netgear modem for me (to allow remote access) and now I'm up and running. I didn't need any tech knowledge - they did it all for me in a few minutes one evening - all for free.

This is a brilliant product and if you want to watch your TV on your travels I can recommend it.

Hurrah for the Underdog !!!
We've all been disappointed by the Big-Boy manafacturers, and sometimes even cheated (eg: I'll personally NEVER buy Phillips again!); so spending so much on a product by someone we've never heard of must be a worry.
Especially if the product looks so wierd!!! (I was never a fan of Space 1999).

However, buy with confidence.

Once you hold the product in real life, you'll love the style, it's a real 'designer' icon, and makes the glossy gadgets it'll stand alongside, look 15 years out of date.
Set up is very easy, but remember to push the Remote Control cable-jacks in fully (till you hear a little click).
I foolishly bought an American spec model on Ebay, and paid the price for trying to save money. But even then, the Customer Support were extremly polite (& that's a strong 'plus-point' in my opinion, it buys my loyalty).
So Amazon got my order for the 'real' McCoy.

I was watching my tv on my laptop, via my wireless router, within 15 to 20 minutes.
It's very user friendly, and you don't need any pc skills to set it up. You even control your input (eg: my Telewest/Virgin Media Cablebox), via an on-screen remote control that matches my 'real' remote control.

I've not worked out how to view my tv over the web yet, or how to view the built-in Freeview, which I believe it has, but I don't fear this. As soon as I want to look into that, I don't doubt it'll be a sinch.
(Although I've tried, and failed, to set up the Mobile Phone viewing on my O2 Orbit XDA Windows Mobile 5 mobile phone... maybe it's not compatible? I may need to ring them on that one).

Viewing full-screen on a 15" laptop is ok (not dvd quality, but I knew not to expect this), whereas when you reduce the screen size, it improves.
I've gone for the higher spec model, as I hope it will be a bit more future-proof, and therefore save me money in the long run.

I wish I was this happy every time I spent my money.

BEWARE if using Virgin Media
My slingbox arrived, I plugged it in, following all the instructions, and then..... Nothing!

Frantic calls to the Slingbox Helpdesk later, I found out that if you have a Virgin Media V+ box it DOES NOT WORK. Slingbox do not support this box at the moment and are working on drivers etc for it.

If it worked then I would have given it 5 Stars!!!!