Direct TV option ?

[brk-lnt]

Originally Posted by bigdog

Two questions:
1. Will above senario work ?
2. Does Sligbox have to work with only 'smart' TV' ? One of my Tv's is an old projection TV and not sure if Sligbox would connect?

Fundamentally, yes, the above scenario will work. Keep in mind that watching TV at your house in MA is going to be highly dependent on your Metrocast connection. The Slingbox needs to send video out of the house, using the upstream bandwidth, and of course the Metrocast connection needs to be up.

My personal experience with Metrocast would lead me to expect a decent amount of downtown and limited upstream bandwidth for this application. Meaning that your image at the house in MA is likely to be less then full HD a lot of the time, and completely unavailable an random times.

I'd buy the slingbox and test it for a month or two before fully committing to this approach.

[8gv]

DISH Network?

I really liked their "Hopper and Joey" system. With one DVR and a box at each tv you can record or play recorded shows from any tv. You can also have FULL access to your system via the internet. Their price is competitive with other companies but in my opinion, DISH has better equipment.

[Orion]

I've had both Dish and DirecTV at different times. With Dish, I needed two dishes to get all the channels since it has satellites in two different directions (one south and one SW) whereas DirecTV has all their birds in a single SW arc. Maybe it should be called Dishes. I can't agree that Dish has better equipment either. The DirecTV DVR receivers seem bulletproof with much better DVR software.

[Blue Thunder]

You need to have the SlingBox at the location that has the better high speed internet for the best upload. Otherwise you will have frequent buffering of the signal that will drive you crazy. I ditched DTV this year for all the same reasons as everyone has said and bought a SlingBox. I have had excellent results all season. So the SlingBox is in Mass at my home connected directly to my Verizon FIOS DVR. I watch all of my "home" TV via the SlingBox on a Fairpoint 3-4mbps dsl connection at my island location. I see everything in HD on my $600 Walmart 55" Vizio TV

BT

[SIKSUKR]

Originally Posted by Blue Thunder

You need to have the SlingBox at the location that has the better high speed internet for the best upload. Otherwise you will have frequent buffering of the signal that will drive you crazy. I ditched DTV this year for all the same reasons as everyone has said and bought a SlingBox. I have had excellent results all season. So the SlingBox is in Mass at my home connected directly to my Verizon FIOS DVR. I watch all of my "home" TV via the SlingBox on a Fairpoint 3-4mbps dsl connection at my island location. I see everything in HD on my $600 Walmart 55" Vizio TV

BT

Hi BT. I've been wanting to do just this for my skihouse. My only concern and its a big one, is that I'm a bigtime channel flipper. I have heard that slingbox will be very disappointing to me for that reason. Your thoughts?

[Blue Thunder]

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

Hi BT. I've been wanting to do just this for my skihouse. My only concern and its a big one, is that I'm a bigtime channel flipper. I have heard that slingbox will be very disappointing to me for that reason. Your thoughts?

I use my Ipad as the "remote". A display of the actual Verizon DVR remote is on the screen. It operates the same....just MUCH slower because it has to send the "I want to change the channel" signal over the internet back to "home base" to tell the slingbox to tell the TV to change the channel. Sounds like you would be disappointed....having said that, The nearly $90 per month savings helps!!