Using Slingbox While Someone is Watching TV at Home: If you are away on a trip and you decide to watch TV on your laptop but someone at home decides to watch TV at the same time on their tv set does that mean that they can only watch what you are...
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As someone else pointed out, if you both want to watch something that is coming through the same attached media device (i.e. cable box, DVD players, DVR, VCR, etc), then the you will both be watching the same thing. And if you remotely change the channel, then the person at home will have the channel change "magically" on them. So, you can have dualing remote battles. ;-) With the SlingBox Pro, however, you do have multiple inputs as well as a "pure" tuner. So, you could have a DVR, a DVD player, and a VCR all hooked up to the SlingBox Pro and you could watch one while the person at home watches something else on one of the other devices. And the "pure" tuner option lets you watch your pure analog cable (or antenna) signal without interrupting someone at home (digital cable will usually not work in this manner as it usually requires a cable box to descramble the signal).
2223511
Only if you have a sling box player device like a Tablet, PC, or Mac feeding the signal to the TV . I don't know if player software exists for other players like Apple TV or Roku.
1472699
I don't see why not. I use my iPad to log into the Slingbox then send it to my Apple TV to watch the program on my home TV set.
605727
It's a feature they say is "coming soon." Right now you can only stream at home on the same network...but you can download shows to go....
1849899
The sling device uses tuner 2 on the DVR. The family at home can watch whatever they want on Tuner1, but the TV hooked up to tuner 2 will just show a notice that "this tuner is in use for remote viewing". The people at home can override the remote viewing and disconnect the user who is connected via Sling if they want.
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You have to watch the same cable channel. Basically you are controlling your cable box at a distance.
1138537
It is not so much the TV it didn't work on, we both have surround sound with a receiver, so it didn't work on that. If you are watching TV alone, they work. But you are the only one that can hear the TV, so if you are watching a show with family, only you are getting the sound through the earphones. So good for one person watching TV use. Not good for family/friend time watching. We ended up getting my father a pair that microphone sound so he could hear better and the TV wasn't too loud for the rest of us.
2223516
The only way I know to do that would be to port your connection from a phone or tablet(with the slingbox software/app) on it, to the TV by a hardwire connection. I have done this before.
1302779
The Belkin @TV allows you to watch your home TV channels (including DVR and "on demand") on your computer or iPad. You can hook up a cable from your computer to a TV and watch on the TV screen. You change the input on your TV (the same as when you watch a DVD) in order to view the screen from your computer. I chose Belkin over Slingbox because I had read some horror stories about customer service at Slingbox. I did have a problem with the @TV, but the Belkin folks were fantastic! They replaced the unit, and now it works great!
1934354
You would have to record your program to a DVR (Tivo) and then you could watch it from the Tivo through your slingbox whenever you wanted.
1103517
No, it only provides what the cable company provides on active cable channels, the design is old and does not compare to the slingbox that I now use.
470680
At a minimum, the HDTV in the other house would need to connect to the internet - wifi or ethernet connection and some form of web browser. Some "smart" TVs have these capabilities. Another option would be to use a laptop at the other house to receive the Slingbox transmission and then have the laptop video and audio output to the TV. Some laptops have HDMI connections built in or a separate adapter cable may get the job done.
364537
Yes the channel changes on both sides, I got another cable box just to set up a new slingbox. It is worth it.
2035530
Or, if you split the cable wire, you can plug in and use the slingbox's internal tuner independent of the tv. Of course, this will only work for analog cable or Local over the air broadcast stations.
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I believe the picture format is only relevant on the transmit side, where the Slingbox lives. It converts NTSC (analog) to a digital stream that is transmitted over the Internet to a computer...not a television...and the computer displays the video on its screen. If you want to watch that on a TV, the computer requires an analog video out port compatible with the television standard of that country. Across all of those transitions, the video quality will noticeably degrade, but not so mcuh you won't be happy to have the programming where and when you want it.
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No. As far as I understand its workings, and how I use it, it connects only one device wirelessly to the internet, via your home network roiter. In other words, you plug the Netgear adaptor to yoir device (in my case a slingbox) using the ethernet cord, plug in the power adaptor (or via the usb power cord) and pair with your home router, and your device is connected to the internet.
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No. You can use the remote function on sling player to turn the receiver on when you are ready to watch.