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I used to love Sling TV!!
Last fall I dropped my Satellite service. Don't get me wrong, I really loved my Sat service but had to cut corners after retiring. The most important thing to remember when considering Sling TV is you need a good WiFi signal. I have a WiFi signal of 30 mbps which works great, there's no buffering whatsoever even when the wife is watching Sling on another TV. I like Sling's format, Sling's program choices, Sling's cloud DVR and with the package I selected I receive all my favorite channels that I used to receive from my Satellite provider, Plus More!!
Between Sling TV, Amazon Fire TV, and my 50' tower w/antenna which picks up 39 local channels including all the network channels with HD quality I receive plenty of programming to keep me entertained and happy. I also have a channel master DVR for recording and pausing network programming off of my antenna, works fantastic! Fact is, I went from paying over $100 per month for Satellite to paying $35 per month for Sling and 0 per month for Antenna TV. A savings of over $900 per year.
UPDATE; April 4th 2018.
I've downgraded my previous Sling rating from 5 Stars to 1 star for the following reasons;
I've been without Sling for two days now. Unable to watch on either Fire tablet, laptop, smart tv, smart phone or Desktop PC. I do get the
channel guide on all my electronics, I can access all the programing info but when I click on "Watch" NOTHING HAPPENS!! Ok, so I dig deeper and find out there's a problem with Sling tv itself, which means it's not me or my account. A message tells me there are problems with "some clients" and to access sling through a Chrome Browser at "watch.sling.com". WHAT?? I tried, still doesn't work!! So then I started searching for a way to communicate with tech support through Sling TV via phone, text, e-mail, telegraph, pony express, smoke signals and I found no way whatsoever to contact these people other than using their online "Help service" which solves literally nothing related to my
problem. The final burn which is the main reason for 1 star, their so-called help page says, "If you can't find your answer, our customer care game is strong. Drop us a line using the buttons below." THERE ARE NO BUTTONS BELOW ON ANYTHING, NOT ON MY PHONE, LAPTOP,
CHROMEBOOK OR FIRE TABLET!!!! News flash!! Sling's "customer care game is strong" is a lie!! I still have no idea how to contact these people,,,,, if there are any people....
March 2018 · Unknown · verified purchase