Sling TV, a live, over-the-top television service

Hot (you know what). The FCC is already looking at setting things up so that there will be many providers like this, not just Sling TV, but there’s already also Nimble TV (unfortunately, that one still uses the cable industry ‘tier’ model). Also, it looks likely that the sports package will be very light on coverage as DISH has few major sports channels and doesn’t have some of the big ones either although those named have always been there. And you can get weather already through the WeatherNation channel on Roku or you can cast it from the web.

It would be nice if they gave us channels to choose from.

Fox by itself…5$ a mo. Blaze TV…you have to pay me 5$ a mo to watch.

Future of cable and satellite tv no cables no dish on the house…..best news ever except the installers won’t be happy.

I just don’t know, this looks all looks good, but… $20 per month for only 12 channels? And this ad only tells you what 8 of them are so I’m assuming the other 4 unmentioned channels aren’t really that fantastic. The 8 listed here aren’t even all that great. You’ve got to have more networks join and maybe give people a mix and match deal. Maybe 20 bucks per month for 15 channels of your choice. It get’s real old to be stuck with a “bundle” deal and you have no control over what networks are part of the bundle. This could be the wave of the future, and I hope it is, but companies like dish have only one motivator, taking as much of your money as possible.

How much talk want to bet that HBO will be available on the sling tv channel lineup come April!!

Since this is a new service, not many people may be familiar on how to download the SlingTV App across different devices.
I was unable to locate the SlingTV app through Roku, so I had to dig through the SlingTV help page to find the link buried within http://help.sling.com/. I have yet to receive an e-mail introduction welcoming me to the service and no instructions on
where to download the app on my devices. You’re leaving customers hanging and not a good way to start releasing this service to your beta-customers.

I just signed up for my 7 day free trial and can use it on both my Roku attached to my tv in the living room as well as in my bedroom. Seems like they said currently you can only use it on one device at a time. People are asking about local news channels here and if you check the Roku itself, there have been many new additions for news that should at least get you in your general area. They added a Phoenix channel and prior to that I think the closest was Las Vegas. There’s a lot more cities available though.
The combination of the Sling, general Roku, Netflix and Amazon Prime – I have to say WHEN MY CURRENT 2-YEAR COMMITTMENT WITH THE CABLE COMPANY EXPIRES IN 8 MORE MONTHS (f-ers) I will drop the phone portion (which I have no land line but it was supposedly the cheapest way to “bundle” my plan) and cable, keeping only my Internet. My hope is some of the other channels I like will join up but I think this is a great start to saying goodbye (and good riddance) to the cable companies!
The only other thing I remember from the initial sign up discussion (one device at a time) was that they don’t pro-rate if you drop the service say mid month. For $20, I’m excited to see how this turns out. Tired of paying for a 220 channel package of which I watch 10. I don’t know how those retarded little channels that no one in the world would want are going to stay in business. Time to go to Plan B for them.
I do hope as channels come on board either with Roku or Sling (as we slowly back away from the cable companies) we’ll have the option to pick say those 10 we want to watch. Even if it was $2 for this channel, $5 for this channel for the entire month, I’d much prefer to pay for what I want without all the other crap. Nothing like scrolling down to find something to watch through 42 channels of junk no one wants to watch on my cable.
One interesting point — when I called Cox Cable to downgrade my existing plan, NEVER do they tell you what the basic package cost or the basic phone service (again, I have no phone) costs are. I want BASIC BASIC and good speed Internet. What I was told was the phone was now going to be a flat $9.95 a month (and the best part is if I ever need it and plug my imaginary phone in, 911 will know my exact location in case of emergency) which was the cheapest way to go without “breaking my contract” and incurring fees…my cable went from Advanced TV Preferred (280+ channels) to TV Economy (155+ channels) though when printing out the channel lineup I see “TV Essential (50+) and TV Starter (10+) are available. You get ran into a big enough loop when you’re trying to do this, eventually you just give in so they’ll shut up and let you get off the phone, which I’m certain is the whole idea. As it turns out, my bill went from $155 a month to $115 a month, so at least it will pay for the Sling and Netflix now (maybe part of Amazon Prime if you break it down into a monthly rate).