[SBE] Slingbox Update

[Dan Slentz]

I have an email into my contact at Slingmedia (the CTO of the company.. and a good guy) for his input.  I reminded him that analog does not disappear on 2/17/09 and suggested that any updates keep this in mind.  I will post any response I get from him here.  
 
Dan Slentz
WSFL TV, Miami

--- On Thu, 10/30/08, John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com> wrote:

From: John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SBE] Slingbox Update
To: "sbe member discussion mail list" <sbe at sbe.org>
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 2:39 PM


I've upgraded a SlingBox here and it seems ok for analog at least off of cable.

John


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Bill Whitt <billw at betterlifetv.tv> wrote:




WOW – Thanks!!! 
 
I was just about to pitch a sale to get a Slingbox on are most remote analog transmitter. We were going try it out and maybe proliferate it through the network if it worked good. That would have been bad to get a box with the latest firmware only to find it doesn't work with analog.
 
Do these things still pick free-to-air digital signals – or are they changing their Demographic to a Dish, Direct, or Cable type customer?
 
And I guess my next question is – If Slingbox is changing their ways – What other box is out there that does this?
 

Bill Whitt
 


From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Carl Sundberg
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:03 PM
To: sbe member discussion mail list
Subject: [SBE] Slingbox Update
 

Hi All,

Just thought I would put out a warning if you use Slingboxes like we do. We use them to monitor translators and remote sites. In the latest update, the TV tuner with UHF abilities is hosed. I was told that analog is going away so it won't be needed anymore. The new update puts new firmware on the box that makes it difficult to get the UHF channels because it only expects analog to be on the cable channels after February. I had to get help from tech support to get them working again. If you use one for UHF monitor checking like us... Beware - Don't use the update or expect to be talking to tech support... Just thought I would put it out there to save some folks some time getting one working again! Because of budgets, we may have analog translators longer than we'd like to.

 
Carl Sundberg


Assistant Chief at KMTR TV




 
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