Live TV?

[JonV]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

How exactly does slingbox work anyway

Slingbox works great.

Oh you mean technically? Others may say it better but give it a feed in your home. For example I have my cable DVR feed my TV via HDMI but I have a component feed also going to the slingbox. (You can use it as a passthrough also).

Then I have a wired ethernet connection from the slingbox to my router.

When I run slingplayer on any PC or my phone it finds my player on my router then that device watches whatever the slingbox is watching at home. In addition it has an IR so that when I tell the player to send a command to the slingbox it sends the command to my DVR via the IR.

So I can be sitting with my phone watching live TV, changing the channel at will, then send a command to bring up the shows recorded on the DVR and play. Or as someone said to instruct my DVR to record an upcoming show. I use it a lot on my laptop in a hotel room when I travel or I'll record a game I can't listen to live then start it on my phone when I get in the car and listen as I drive.

It's real one of technologies I've found that meets and exceeds the promise or hype. Worth every penny so far.