When i point the remote i just aim at the cable box and click away. I'll keep looking but as far as i can see there is no IR sensor on the front. Could it be possibly behind the little screen that shows the number (of the channel that i am on)?

Very often, the IR sensor is hidden behind the glass panel that houses the channel display LED. Just point your blaster in that general direction and you should be fine. Often, they have a wide angle, so it doesn't have to be directly across.

Yup that did the trick, the IR sensor was behind the LCD screen. Now the only problem is setting up the slingplayer so that channels change on the sling player not just the TV...

OK, I just got a slingbox pro hd and hooked it up to my Bell 9242 HD PVR. it works great but can't figure out how to set up side 2 on my dual PVR.

I have the slingbox application on my iphone and can watch my TV on my iPhone too ( wifi only right now, no 3G )


I have the software on my laptop and have watched HD in 1280x720 and this thing is the cats meow!

i am in California on Nov 29th and will be watching the Grey Cup game throught this set up and might try to link my laptop to my hotel TV.

They have a sling catcher for other TV's but HD signal downconverts to a SD picture.. that sucks.. hope they come out with a sling catcher HD soon.

Very cool sling box




So, if anyone has both sides of a Bell PVR into the HD and SD inputs, tell me how to get the second side working... think it is a UHF remote issue?

Another thing you could do with this is 2 homes share a PPV Oilers game - sling it to another house and split the cost.

The thing about sharing, if someone else is watching they have to watch the same satellite channel as it changes your home location too.

How fast is your internet upload? It is hard to expect an HD signal if the best speed you will get is around 800kbps which is what most high speed internet upload speeds top out at.

How fast is your internet upload? It is hard to expect an HD signal if the best speed you will get is around 800kbps which is what most high speed internet upload speeds top out at.

I have Shaw extreme in Edmonton, my brother told me I have 100GB of transfer a month, can't remember the speed.

Up to 1 Mbps upload speed

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/Extreme/default.htm


I have a 1.5 something something processor on my Toshiba laptop and the site says laptops of 1.6 or better, so borderline. The picture is clear and once I noticed some hesitation and a box popped up something to do with my computer maxing out or using all it's resources.

Now, when I did the demo the guy doing it had just the min telus TV and lite? internet and he could not show me the HD video but mine works fine... and I was using a rogers mobile ( not the stick, the tower ) internet and watching this HD TV on my laptop - picked the 1280x720 setting, the was a higher setting too.

Now, there is a meter when your in/watching HD and I think I seen something like 972kb second?


Seems to work OK.

I have investigated the Slingbox so that I could access my Rogers Digital signal from the cable box downstairs in my main viewing room and be able to record shows through Vista Media Center upstairs. Unfortunately, although I have a router beside the computer, Slingbox is not does not have WIFI. Therefore, I was told I would have to run a cable from the Slingbox beside my Rogers PVR upstairs probably through the walls and into my router in order to accomplish what I want to do. Why couldn't Rogers Cable have a passthrough on their basic HD cable box that would allow me to timeshift record my shows through Vista Media Center without me having to be at home to physically change the channel on the cable box? Slingmedia have an add-on that uses the electrical wiring of the house to deliver the signal to other parts of the house, but I am skeptical about this and I don't think that this is even available in Canada.

It's called the slinglink turbo and is available in Canada as well. (BestBuy, Future Shop, Tiger direct sells it).

Be advised that you could you any sort of Homeplug/powerline adapters to accomplish the same thing. Canada Computers sells many kits (you need two plugs, one at each ends). They all use your home wiring to send the Ethernet signal inside the house. They start at $59.99.

I just read that AT&T Okays SlingPlayer for 3G on the iPhone so it might soon be available in Canada. This would be great.

I assume you are talking about slinging a TV show from your Slingbox over 3G network as opposed to the current WiFi capability. I have been able to watch many shows on my Slingplayer app on my iphone over WiFi.

Now, I have a Slingbox Solo and have tried watching the Australian Open tennis at my cabin in Panorama from my TV at home in Calgary. On a 42" plasma, the picture is almost unwatchable, and very unstable. Loses connection or freezes up frequently.

I have ADSL Telus both at home and at the cabin. Upload speeds come in ~600 Mb/s at home, which is nowhere near enough. I am also using WiFi ADSL at the cabin, but my guess is that the upload speed at home is the bottleneck.

Over my home network (gigabit ethernet) the picture on my 27" Apple moitor/MacPro tower is OK, but not great. Certainly not hi-def by any stretch. I may need to try the Slingplayer HD to see how that works.

Any clues on optimising upload speeds over Telus ADSL??

The SOLO takes HD inputs, but is not a HD Streaming device. You need the Slingbox Pro HD for HD streaming. I have one of those and the quality in superb over internal networks.

For streaming over the internet, you should really get at least 900 kbps for a decent picture. Starting at 1.5 meg, you get close to cable quality..

In Ontario, Bell is now offering "Fibe 25" with 7 Meg upload speeds. This would make it amazing for a slingbox. The cost of their service is $57.99 + Plus modem rental fee.