For those who want to get the sling adapter for free...
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Dish needs to take a lesson from the Cell Phone companies. For years cell phone companies only offered the cheap or free cell phones to new customers. An existing customer always had to pay full price to replace their phone. They eventually realized that everybody just kept switching back and forth between companies so they could get the cheaper phones. Nowadays, if you are at the end of your two year commitment you can get the same price on phones as new customers. I know AT&T takes it a step further, around 6 months BEFORE your contract ends you can actually get the new customer prices.
Um, I think you meant 3mbps speed. 3gbps speed doesn't exist yet. And if it did, you'd probably pay $1000/month!
No. The Slingplayer software would the analog of DIRECTV2PC. It requires much less of a computer and, because the Slingbox is bandwidth adaptable, can play more readily through a Wi-fi connection.
The Sling Receiver, as it is more properly called, differs from DIRECTV2PC because it supports playback on a television without needing to have an HDCP capable HDTV. The Sling Receiver is also capable of receiving content that hasn't already been recorded as the Slingbox side digitizes in real time. A major difference with the Sling Receiver is that you can actually control the box that it is streaming. You can change channels, look through the guide and set up recordings as if you were watching a conventionally connected television.
Slingbox = sending device
Sling Receiver = receiving device
Slingplayer = receiving software for computers and mobile devices
Slinglink = Homeplug 1.0 Turbo networking adapter.
The recently used designations of Sling Adapter and Sling Extender are exceedingly poor at defining what the devices are used for and I suggest that their use be abandoned.
