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NEW Slingbox M1 – Take your TV anywhere!

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September 25, 2014

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I love to try new technologies and I have a practical approach to techie stuff - it has to be easy to use and make my life better. I have my house fully wired, with a surround sound system in my family room for music and TV viewing, but also drive music throughout the house as well as outdoors. I Internet stream content on all my devices at home, which provides a huge variety of entertainment to enjoy.

2 COMMENTS

xl September 25, 2014 At 5:47 am
Some thoughts after my 500 experience…
- check out the SlingBox player app w/ price… I think I read somewhere you need to pay that price for EACH device.
  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/slingplayer-for-iphone/id309280605?mt=8
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slingmedia.slingPlayerTablet&hl=en
- the HDMI in was useless on my 500. You aren’t missing much with the M1 as Slingbox is not HDCP compliant for a direct HDMI connection to Optik.
- Biggest complaint on the laptop was stability. Trying to watch a 1hr program was painful
- downgrading the HD signal made the browser more stable
- The 5 or 10 second delay from pushing the remote to seeing results was painful to skip commercials
- Having a 5Mbps Optik upload helps for HD quality.
Was the laptop experiece stable on Windows for you to watch a long program?

Was there much of a delay using the browser remote or via an app remote to control the M1? How much was your delay?
hootie September 25, 2014 At 3:41 pm

Hi XL

Thanks for your comments on the 500. My experience with the M1 was better. A slight delay on the remote but certainly not 5-10 seconds – that is painful. I did not use Windows, I used my laptop and the viewing experience was good. You do have to pay the app price for each device – iPad, iPhone, Android, etc. so multiple devices will mean multiple apps, each at a cost.

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