Slingbox - remote TV / DVR / Video control over the internet

I bought this device 2 months ago when CompUSA was going out of business called a Slingbox. Basically it attaches to the S-Video and Audio cables of the satellite box (or anything) and then has a eithernet connection to switch at home. I then open up a port on the router that redirects the traffic on from incoming internet to the slingbox.

I then connect using this application called a SlingPlayer which initiates a stream from my laptop here in El Poblado to my router in Florida (which is on a fixed IP) and I am prompted for a password / login and then bingo, I can watch TV on my laptop just like I am back home in Coral Springs.

The Direct TV remote control pops up on my laptop next to the screen which is streaming video/audio from the satellite box.

For a good stream, it requires about 500-700kb. The compression is actually pretty good, no bad and my increasing the buffering you can get through many short internet bursts..

larry at rn.org

By larryrn on Mar 8, 2008, 07:01 in Friendly Talkzone.

gringoloid says on Mar 8, 2008, 08:58:

we've discussed this before................my question is how many feeds can you get from the satellite box that is located in the usa.

could a person in the usa sell 'passwords' for access to american tv in colombia?

guacharaca says on Mar 8, 2008, 09:16:

No. I believe one would need a separate slingbox per each viewer, or at least each channel being watched. Also the bandwidth on the internet connection in the US would be a bottleneck in the system. Slingbox is fine for short vacations, but a satelitte dish is the way to go for living in Colombia.

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Waterdawg says on Mar 8, 2008, 12:22:

Interesting , thank you .. I have the ass with Directv because of last football ( NFL ) season .. They cut the number of games more than half .. I am bound and determined to get around them and get my
games next season . There are any where from six to eight games at 1:00 , they cut it back to three .

larryrn says on Mar 9, 2008, 17:14:

Gringoloid is correct -- one person can watch one channel at a time - per 400kb (approx).. The way to get around this is to devise a way to send the 950-1450 mhz signal from the LNB on the antenna over the internet then connect it to individual Direct TV receivers (from the states) here in Colombia. To my knowledge, no such solution exists as of yet, but who knows..

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