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Customer Reviews for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Model: SB260-100
SKU: 8548832
UPC: 852619001448
The Slingbox SOLO makes it easy for you to watch and control your favorite TV source from anywhere in the world on a Windows PC, Mac, mobile phone or tablet. Enjoy your DVR, digital cable, satellite receiver or DVD player in standard-definition quality. With the Slingbox SOLO you can watch your favorite TV shows and sporting events from anywhere, anytime.
Average Customer Rating:
3.6
out of 5
(104 Reviews) 104
Rating Snapshot 104 reviews
5 stars
49
4 stars
22
3 stars
3
2 stars
6
1 star
24
71% of customers would recommend this product to a friend
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74 out of
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Customer Reviews for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Review 1 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Fantastic value at the sale price
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0
What's great about it: Very easy setup, Exelent sale price ($99), Facebook app, Virtual cable remote
What's not so great: Cost of Android app ($30), No HDMI, Uses IR repeaters, No WIFI connection to router, Single user operation of cable box
I bought this during a Mother's day sale for 45% off normal price. While an excellent value a this price, I would not pay the full price knowing the mobile app is another $30 expense. It also doesn't help that anyone at home using the TV it is connected to has to watch what I am. Those annoyances can be overlooked at the lower price point though.
Other Good:
Like setting up another component to your TV. Works as a pass-through between your cable box and TV.
Setup was web-browser based and very setup-wizard oriented. Not a lot of geek knowledge needed.
Quality seemed good and can be adjusted by the user
Have access to everything on your box (PPV, DVR, On-Demand, Live TV)
Has a facebook flash-based app so you can watch from any browser
Uses a virtual picture of your cable remote to operate your cable box.
Like setting up another component to your TV. Works as a pass-through between your cable box and TV.
Setup was web-browser based and very setup-wizard oriented. Not a lot of geek knowledge needed.
Quality seemed good and can be adjusted by the user
Have access to everything on your box (PPV, DVR, On-Demand, Live TV)
Has a facebook flash-based app so you can watch from any browser
Uses a virtual picture of your cable remote to operate your cable box.
Other Bad:
One more device to find a plug and room for more cables.
Uses component cables and not HDMI
Android app is $30
Uses IR repeaters to control your cable box
If someone is using your cable box, you can end up fighting for control of the remote.
One more device to find a plug and room for more cables.
Uses component cables and not HDMI
Android app is $30
Uses IR repeaters to control your cable box
If someone is using your cable box, you can end up fighting for control of the remote.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+1point
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Review 2 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Very Frustrating
Customer Rating
2.0
Posted by: cdk222
from Billings, MT
on 04/27/2012
Value for Price
2.0
Features
2.0
Ease of Use
1.0
Ease of Set Up
1.0
What's great about it: Over wifi it works brilliantly
What's not so great: Not so much over 3g
I bought the slingbox solo primarily to watch on my iphone when I'm out and about. Over my wifi connection the streaming quality is great like I figured it would be. While I did not expect it to be as good over my wireless 3g connection I didn't expect it to be a complete trainwreck. It plays for 2 seconds and then buffers, 2 seconds and buffers and over and over again. I guess because I live in a smaller state my 3g just isn't going to work with it. If I was just using it for wifi I could keep it but it's not worth it. Setup is also a little challenging and if your router is in a different room than your cable box expect to buy some extra equipment.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+2points
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Review 3 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Great product for the price
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: The ease of use and versatility
What's not so great: Buffering when you have a bad Internet connection
This product is great. If you haves DVD or you just want to watch tv and not Netflix then this is for you. Setup is a breeze and the apps for it, while are pricier then I would have like really expand the versatility of the sling box. I wish it used hdmi to hook up but I understand why it doesn't with copy protection that hdmi has in it.
And plus I have my cable box hooked up to the tv with an hdmi cord and component so when I am using the sling box it's through component and when I'm at home I use the better hdmi. It may take up more slots but it's useful.
All in all I recommend this product for the simple fact that it makes the cable that you're already paying a fortune for, mobile.
Hope you find this useful.
Oh the one downside is that if you dont have a good Internet connection then you won't get good playback. But that's how it is with everything if your Internet connection is not the best.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+5points
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Review 4 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
LOVE IT!!!
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Easy setup, easy to operate
I travel for work often and I love the sling box. I bought the solo version and it only has one input, but I just wanted one DVR set up on it. It is AMAZING!!!! Easy setup, and easy to access.
I would recommend this to a friend!
-1point
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Review 5 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Review 6 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Great product
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
4.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: easy to set up, works great
Amazing product. Easy to setup. Works wonderfully. My only complaint is that I wish it had a lower price. But I can't complain. I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of it. It's great that there's no monthly fee.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 7 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Great Idea, good enough
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
4.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0
What's great about it: Your home T.V. and DVR anytime on any computer or phone (phone requires app purchase).
What's not so great: Quality not always clear. Slightly lag compared to real time in every aspect.
Originally I was willing to get the HD version but I did put a good price for this one but I had purchased it on a sale so it made it cheaper than normal prices. But I still wish I originally purchased the HD box one.
Idea is great to watch TV or even your DVR at any time using wifi or 3g.
Idea is great to watch TV or even your DVR at any time using wifi or 3g.
Quality of picture isn't great but is better if you have good/fast home connection. But still great vs. paying for a service on your phone. Plus you can watch on any computer, not just on your phone, ipad, etc. The other slight downfall is buying the app. to use it on your phone or ipad.
Set up was a little difficult at first as I put average for ease of set up. But could be simple once you figure it out.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+3points
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Review 8 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
bad quality
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: gearsof1129
from MA
on 03/07/2012
What's not so great: view
image quality is awful,like the fact that you can watch live tv but the picture is terrible
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 9 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Would be amazing...if it didn't crash daily.
Customer Rating
1.0
Value for Price
4.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0
What's great about it: Easy to use, good image quality
What's not so great: It crashed constantly
I really enjoyed the Slingbox while I had it. The setup was a breeze, the website viewer was great, the virtual Tivo remote was cool, and the video quality was great. The box would hang after 5-10 minutes of viewing at any speed/compression rate, and the only way to fix it was to physically unplug it. I eventually gave up and returned the thing.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+5points
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Review 10 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Good for computers or laptops not for tablets!
Customer Rating
2.0
Posted by: Unhappybuyr
on 02/21/2012
I bought this for my husband since he is out of town for his job a lot and the hotels never have decent cable that he stays in. This seemed perfect in theory. He recently got a Samsung tablet for Christmas and uses his android phone as a hotspot so we thought this would work but no go:( then he tried to use the free wifi that the hotel offers but it wasn't strong enough to do it without a constant skipping:( all this after we had to run a Ethernet cord under our house so we could connect the dang thing to our router Ugh. Very frustrating!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+1point
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Review 11 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Fantastic
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
I work out of town and paying for dish at home. I didn't want to have to pay for 2 cable bills so I bought this lovely piece of technology. Well worth the money if you are only looking at paying one cable bill while being in 2 places.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+4points
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Review 12 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
A fun perk to add to your home
Customer Rating
3.0
Value for Price
3.0
Features
3.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0
What's great about it: Create Portable TV via Laptop & high speed wireless internet
What's not so great: If it's not high speed internet, it's pretty much unwatchable.
I rate this product as average as I don't regret paying the $100 during the 2011 Black Friday pricedrop. I am able to pull up the TV on my laptop and watch anywhere in my house via the wireless cable internet. HOWEVER, I had visions of watching via iPhone, etc. Did pay the $30 for the slingplayer on the iPhone but because 4G is mostly not available, the speed/buffering makes it unwatchable. Until the speeds improve, don't count on being able to watch via a sprint card or hotspot in the car, but like I said it is nice to be able to create a portable TV at home via the laptop.
I am curious to know if the Sling HD player will creat better picture quality on laptops since laptop displays usually aren't that high quality to begin with.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+1point
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Review 13 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
This is a replacement for my broken Slingbox.
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Great price, easy to set up, easy to use
What's not so great: No way to send it in for repair, if needed.
The sound stopped working on my previous 5-year old Slingbox SOLO, so I checked the Best Buy website and found that the SOLO was on sale for half off the usual price. I paid for it and drove to the local Best Buy Store and picked it up. I also have an original Slingbox that is still working just fine. I am a Happy Slingbox user. I buy all my Slingboxes when they are on sale at Best Buy.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+4points
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Review 14 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Don't buy Slingbox.
Customer Rating
1.0
Value for Price
1.0
Features
1.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0
Do not buy any SlingBox product. It will go bad exactly after the warrenty period (1 year). You can't even Reset. The buttons will not work. Until or unless you took their additional warrenty from them the support will not even talk to us. Search the Google about this. You will see everyone complains about this. Last point... "Do not buy". :-(
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-10points
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Review 15 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Very good product
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
4.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Ease of use, set-up.
What's not so great: Image quality
The picture quality is good on a computer or smaller screen, but not as good as I hoped for. Still an innovative and strong product.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 16 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Works right out of the box
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Easy to install
What's not so great: none
Very little time to set this up. Worked like a charm. The internet connection is pretty good. I wish I would have bought the Pro version, but I don't think it is worth the price.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+1point
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Review 17 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Great item for sale price, not full retail
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
3.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Watch my tv from anywhere in world
What's not so great: Retail price
I paid $99.99 when it was on sale before christmas. it is a very cool item, but i dont think its worth almost $200.00 It was easy to hook up. I installed the app on my droid x as well. Within 10 minutes everything was up and running. I used the component cables and on the droid, the picture is in HD using wifi. When using 3g, the picture is not that great, pending on signal. When out with the wife and child doing errands, it is very nice to be able to watch the Buffalo Sabres and Bills games on my phone. I also have watched shows that I recorded on my DVR. This thing is very cool, but priced kind of high. Slingbox website sometimes has offers (coupons). I def recommend. By the way I have it hooked up to Verizon FIOS DVR.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+3points
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Review 18 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Nice Product, does exactly what we hoped
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
4.0
Features
4.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
What's great about it: Helps stick to one TV/Movie library, we can sling the dvr, on demand, and live tv.
What's not so great: navigating menus on the tv through the slingplayer app is a little slow.
The sling box is a great product. We sling to our ipad and iphones and it works fine. Just recognize that the Ipad Slingplayer App is different from the Iphone Slingplayer app. However, you can use the Iphone sling player app on both device.
I would recommend this to a friend!
-2points
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Review 19 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Take Your TV with You Anywhere!
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0
What's great about it: Ease of use after setup.
What's not so great: Buffering is sometimes slow.
My husband and I just moved out of the country for a couple years. I didn't know what to expect from my new location, so started looking at options for watching streaming TV.
Overall, the Slingbox was easy to set up, after I got the right equipment. The Slingbox needs to be hardwired through an ethernet connection to your network. And if you're like me, your router and TV are NOT close to each other. So, I went back to Best Buy and purchased a Netgear Wireless Network Extender to plug into the outlet close to my TV. Connected very easily after that!
Regarding watching TV now - I'm not sure if it's my computer's processor, or just part of the slingbox software, but when I first start watching a show - even something I've DVRed - it stutters- like the buffering is slow. But after it gets going, it's usually fine. My husband watched live football on it, and live-action stutters a lot. If I watch TV on the "best" setting of the slingbox screen, it stutters (but if I use the "better" setting, I can see just fine, and programs seem to buffer faster). And it doesn't matter if I click pause and wait like watching a streaming video online - it still stutters. When I use the on-screen remote (looks just like the remote at home), it takes longer for the program to react after I've "pressed a button" (aka - used the mouse to click on the remote button) than it does on the real one at home.
That all being said, I think this is a really great product! I'm able to continue to watch my favorite shows, including the ones I DVRed onto my box at home, and my husband can watch live sports (stuttering sports is better than no sports).
Really, the stuttering isn't as bad as I'm making it sound (but want you to know what to expect). It's an inconvenience, but not an annoyance. And it's CERTAINLY worth a bit of inconvenience to be able to have a piece of home, while we're away from home.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 20 for Sling Media The Slingbox SOLO
Must have gadget!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Froghair
from NC
on 01/07/2012
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0
This is my second slingbox. I upgraded so I could use it remotely. I can now access my slingbox on my computer at work, traveling, anywhere! Plus I bought the app for my Droid and it works great! The only negative is if someone is watching the tv the slingbox is connected to and you change the channel remotely, it will change the channel on the tv. This really has not been an big issue for me. If this is a problem it can be corrected if you have your setup on a tv that is not used all the time - but this will require your cablebox, router, and slingbox to be connected to that tv.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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