Comments on: Current SlingBox Owners Getting Shafted by iPhone SlingPlayer?

By: Jeff Crowles

Jeff Crowles — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:24:48 +0000

Very interesting site is organizing sling box sharing with all countries slingsharing.com

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:10:07 +0000

I have an original Slingbox tuner……….didn’t read the fine print,so i bought the app for my iPhone. Sling Box support was no help………less than friendly customer service people in Costa Rica,with the”we don’t support the “tuner”- iPhone app! When asked to enter a channel I can get local channels 1 through 11 by entering 4 in setup……….any suggestions on if I should enter different channels in setup to get more channels?………I agree with most of the comments,this company sucks forcing you to upgrade. Will never by another SlingBox product!

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:48:10 +0000

Slingplayer mobile is working fine with my Slingbox AV

By: Gerardo J. Trevino

Gerardo J. Trevino — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:48:58 +0000

I am a customer of Sling box. I have an older Sling box and subscription to sling player mobile. I hate to say it, but the greed by Sling box to gorse their loyal custmers to spend extra money to have the ability to get Sling box on their iPhone, Not a good practice! $30.00 to get the Sling player mobile for iPhone, in a heart beat. Spend an extra $140.00 for no good reason, never… On Principal. During this economical crisis, karma.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:31:36 +0000

I guess I’ll just keep using my trusty old Treo. It works with my trusty old Slingbox AV. I was looking forward to upgrading to the iPhone once Sling and Dataviz ported their apps, but I’m not upgrading my other h/w too.

By: Gary Byrd

Gary Byrd — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:53:33 +0000

I own a Slingbox AV and as soon as I heard about needing an upgrade for the iPhone I bought the Slingbox Pro HD. And I am very glad that I did. The Slingbox Pro HD provides much, much better picture than the Slinbox AV did. Plus, I am getting much higher and more consistent transfer rates.

If you can spring for the HD then I would definitely recommend it!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:20:05 +0000

Of course, none of this will matter if Apple doesn’t approve the iPhone Slingplayer App. It was supposedly submitted to Apple at least two weeks ago. The approval delay, plus AT&T’s now retracted new restrictive TOS, and Sling Media’s apparent attempt at self destruction by corporate greed lead to the conclusion that more may be going on than meets the eye.

By: iPoo

iPoo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:15:04 +0000

A real shame indeed, Sling was such a great customer-focussed company before….It still makes great products and the iPhone app looks stunning but this latest decision by their new owners stinks

I’ve seen so many people getting annoyed about this decision in various forums…especially the slingbox community forum. I along with many others have written to sling too and none of us have received even the courtesy of a reply.

Really all….the only way you can effectively show your disappointment is by not buying the app once it hits the store….Sling know that there is so much pent up demand for this App, but if after all that development it doesn’t sell and hit the top of the App charts then they’ll know somethings up.

Now there will always be those who are willing to take any rubbish from a company just to get the latest stuff….and they will even overlook this truly awful customer service, upgrade at great expense and buy the app…I see the attraction but maybe they could wait a couple of weeks before they buy the app just to show some kind off annoyance! leave duff feedback for the bad service not the App…the App looks great!

lets hope sling get the message and get back to being the great company they once were.

By: svp123

svp123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:32:14 +0000

The Gall.

I own 3 Slingbox classics and an iPod Touch.

Now they're telling me that my Slingbox Classics won't work with the iPod Touch (iPhone Mobile)?

I officially think SLING sucks now.

I loved this company.

I ranted to everyone about them.

I beta tested for them.

And now, my boxes, in three different places in the world won't work on the iPhone platform?

They should seriously re-think that.

You want me to buy 3 more boxes?

You greedy idiots. Bad marketing strategy. Bad loyalty strategy.

Not supporting the people that supported you and made you who and what you are.

You've fallen off your pedestal in my view SLING Media.

And I WILL spread that word to all!

If you continue that policy, you should offer completely free upgrades to users like me.

I repeat, I bought three of them.

You b**tards.

Unimpressed and now undevoted and NO, I will not buy the Sling App for iPhone/iPod Touch that I was waiting for and I hope Apple doesn't let them sell it in the App store (it would serve them right).

It's bad enough they wanted $30 for it. Though they may have had that from me. Now they'll get nothing. I hope the company goes the way of GM, and fast.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:04:53 +0000

I’ve written Sling Media about the seemingly unnecessary hardware upgrade which, of course, only impacts existing Sling Media customers. I had asked that they better explain the reason for the upgrade since we’ve all seen beta versions of the iPhone Slingplayer demonstrated on existing Slingboxes since 2007. After all, the upgrade could be legitimate. The response was basically “Don’t upgrade if you don’t want to, but you can’t use the iPhone App or any other new functionality we might provide in the future.” I have found the reason that people won’t provide an explanation is that there isn’t one that anyone wants to hear. I really wanted this iPhone App, but not for $200, and not by replacing an existing Slingbox that works just fine.