SlingPlayer Mobile now available for Android

[krelvinaz]

One of the last items that I missed from the conversion from WM was a slingmedia player.

It was released today (tonight actually).

Of course, I have the older slingplayer (AV model) which is not 100% supported, but it is good enough until my new Solo arrives.

Even using an older not quite supported slingbox, the player is much much easier to use than the WM ever was.

SlingPlayer For Android

 

[760hacker]

Awesome

I have used Slingplayer mobile on WM and iPhone and the Android flavor is by far the best. The integration that they have built in to allow easy use of all of the functionality you would have right in your own living room. Good Work Sling!

 

[wpbear]

The site says sling classic not officially supported but may work. Is this app still have the 24hr return policy as the rest of the app store. I don't want to waste $30.

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[answerman]

I downloaded it last night to test it with my Slingbox AV (older "unsupported" model) on my rooted Incredible. It works, for anyone who was wondering. Over EvDO rA, the picture was good, but the audio was kind of choppy. Some people have guessed that the buffering is handled differently in the new version, which might explain the audio issue. One thing that's completely different in the Android version (I came from WM too) is that there is no way to adjust the streaming settings (or even view the statistics for that matter). I'm going to dig into the config files a little and see if anything can be manually tweaked.

So, for anyone who's wondering... the Android version of SlingPlayer WILL work with a Slingbox AV, but it's not necessarily great.

 

[krelvinaz]

I am using the slingbox AV myself until the Solo shows up. I got pretty good results last night on EVDO rev/A. After changing channels it would settle down pretty quickly.

On WiFi it work much better of course...

The method of changing and selecting channels is much easier than the WM verison. Even accessing some of the more obscure buttons is easy with this interface.

some of the features don't work with the older slingbox, but I didn't find anything that I had to have that I could not do with it.

 

[wpbear]

I bought it. It is ok but not worth the $30 so I uninstalled. I better get my refund.

 

[D8nkE]

Man, figures is would be now that I'm w/o cable. I'm moving in a week.

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[tsailor1]

Download Sling Mobile from xxxx

I have Slingbox Av which seems to work pretty good with this mobile App. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that could save them lots of money. I subscribe to a website called xxxx. They have lots of paid apps that you can download right to your phone. Anyway for $10 a year you can download as many paid apps as you want. They just updated there listing last night and Slingplayer is available to download. Its alot cheaper to get it from xxxx and you get lots of other paid apps to go along with it.

 

[krelvinaz]

I have Slingbox Av which seems to work pretty good with this mobile App. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that could save them lots of money. I subscribe to a website called xxxx. They have lots of paid apps that you can download right to your phone. Anyway for $10 a year you can download as many paid apps as you want. They just updated there listing last night and Slingplayer is available to download. Its alot cheaper to get it from xxxx and you get lots of other paid apps to go along with it.

Which is the same a stealing since they are not legal copies of the apps and the original authors are not paid for their work, time and expense of publishing and development.

 

[wpbear]

Probably true about that website so then just go torrent it for free if you don't care about paying for it. The news had a story about movie sites like that which are run by organized crime and the movie studios are mad. Personally I think sling is doing it to themselves by charging too much and also making winmo converts pay again for the same app, along with dropping support for the sling classic customers. They are getting greedy and people are revolting.

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[krelvinaz]

Personally I think sling is doing it to themselves by charging too much and also making winmo converts pay again for the same app, along with dropping support for the sling classic customers. They are getting greedy and people are revolting.

Greedy?

I suppose they have developers that work for free on a project that has taken more than a year to complete. Do you work for free? I don't.

The droid version of the player is significantly better than the WinMo version ever was and much more usable. Many of the operations work just fine with Slingbox AV even though it is not fully supported.

As for dropping support for older technologies, gee time does move on. It is not that uncommon that new technologies come along that no longer support older hardware. It happens.. And it is not like they have not been talking about new technologies not supporting the older boxes now for years.

They do provide an upgrade discount for registered users of the older boxes to get newer ones. If they were greedy they would not offer that.

If their users think the price is too high, they won't buy. If sales are slow Slingmedia will do what most companies do when products are not moving.

Promoting theft is not cool, whether using a torrent or a hack site. Saying it is okay because the a product is overpriced is not an excuse.

 

[wpbear]

Should I go sit in time out now for voicing my opinion of a greedy company.

What if MS made you buy office 2010 because you have win7 but Vista users could still use office 2007? I bought a license and am not buying another.

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[DaveShaw]

All opinions aside, XDA does not allow discussion of warez on it's boards.

I have removed the name of the offending site from the above post and quote.

@tsailor1 please take time to read the forum rules.

Dave