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coologuy1957 July 30, 2009

HD streaming quality

Is the streaming HD video quality on your home network great or merely acceptable? Is remote viewing of HD material distinguishable from the older Slingbox models?

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coologuy1957 2009-07-31 21:40:03

Thank you, you're much too kind..........

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deinfinityx 2009-07-31 21:46:02

I would have said something, but don't own one, wish i did, but sadly i don't.

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brett 2009-07-31 21:53:58

I think not a ton of people have these. But maybe they do and they are so satisfied with their HD content that they don't need the internet. But seriously, I really want to know about the quality.

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coologuy1957 2009-07-31 22:31:14

lol Thanks anyway man. I really thought it was a simple question.......

(I'm like 1 out of 5 with people responding to my topics! lol)

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deinfinityx 2009-07-31 22:34:53

I know how you feel, apparently we don't have the popular topics.

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brett 2009-08-04 02:32:54

People must be satisfied with the quality if they aren't storming the boards with complaints.

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deinfinityx 2009-08-04 02:43:09

That is a very good point, look at everything else that people run into problems with and storm the board looking for answers.

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brett 2009-08-04 02:49:14

Basically that is how I am rationalizing the lack of responses, haha.

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deinfinityx 2009-08-04 02:51:29

Well its still good.

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coologuy1957 2009-08-04 15:14:55

Forget the answer, I just wanna live vicariously through the people that own one right now! Its one of those devices I really want and can't justify in any way right now....

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deinfinityx 2009-08-04 15:23:49

A dream i always have with all products i can't afford.

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loloudoudara 2009-08-05 13:30:48

It's HD quality on LAN, and very decent quality on the internet depending on the speed of the connection.
The minimum speed required in my experience to get smooth quality video (non-choppy, not HD) on the internet is about 300kbps.
The Slingbox controls the bitrate dynamically depending on your bandwidth, making streaming easy (just clicking start/stop) without having to mess with any video settings.

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coologuy1957 2009-08-05 14:25:57

Thanks. Thats about what I expected. The slings quality on LAN has always been great and these new boxes have bumped the bitrate cap way up. On my slingbox classic, I get great quality SD TV at about 900kbps over the internet. I've only tested it on the LAN a few times because its installed at my mom's house, but it seemed to stream between 2000 to 3000kbps and look pretty sweet. I've heard the new ones will really start pushing data if your network allows it....

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rodbeezy 2009-08-15 06:57:40

it could be my router (d-link dir-655) but i actually get fairly consistent lag spikes on my sling pro hd. on average, i am at about 2700k but i can go all the way up to ~4000k and then spike down to ~1500k...quite annoying. but again, it could be my router which i am getting closer and closer to replace.

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cher331 2009-08-16 10:41:32

It does depend on the bandwidth you're using. I have one to use in another country and it's awesome, but the bandwidth they have is so so at peak times. Here in the states it works great all the time.

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coologuy1957 2009-08-20 21:10:40

It shouldn't be the DIR-655. I have that one and the research I've done shows it has a backplane which can handle up to 250mbps with no problem....

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drslevy 2009-10-07 15:43:28

i have the dir-655 too and after about a year it started to do that too, i think some of the components start to wear out and of such, it will not maintain certain speed consistencies over the network, after i replaced mine i stopped having those issues.

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coologuy1957 2009-10-07 15:51:40

that sucks. I just updated the firmware on mine and it wouldn't even talk to my cable modem and get an IP. It was the worst firmware "upgrade" ever! Its finally working now after hours and headaches...

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rodbeezy 2009-08-23 08:50:15

i'm running the slingbox hd off of my slinglink powerline ethernet so that could also be a factor in the spikes...

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coologuy1957 2009-08-24 19:50:07

I heard the slinglink units were pretty bulletproof so I don't understand... maybe you should go into the settings for the slingplayer and tell it to stream at a constant bitrate - somewhere between the average and the high and see where it evens out. Thats the only advice I can give you...

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drslevy 2009-10-07 15:51:57

On another note, i think that slingmedia has been slowly ( by means of their firmware updates) been reducing the video quality of their older boxes ( like the sling av which ive had for over 2 years now) to push ppl to get the newer boxes, i might start a thread about this, sorry coolguy1957. I dont have an answer to your question but as soon as i get one for myself ;-)

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coologuy1957 2009-11-17 15:30:19

I can now answer my own question and tell you the HD streaming quality (on a LAN) is AMAZING! I researched this product extensively and discovered it would let me control/stream the cable box in the bedroom while I am on the cable box downstairs. This way I can watch two NBA games (league pass) or basketball and football or sports and a tv show.... (projector is showing the slingbox over the plasma tv!!) If I put both on the same channel, there is a 4 second lag on the sling image, but the color and framerate are both outstanding. It streams anywhere from 5 to almost 10mbps!! Now those are HD numbers!!

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brycecampbel 2010-01-23 05:59:16

I am getting very good quality over my LAN with gigabit ethernet -- havent really had to use wifi yet, or tried streaming over the internet --

love the product and highly recommend! Thing with streaming over internet not LAn or WAN is that the higher the upload you have from your ISP the better, and then download on the other end is nice too. thing about the slingbox which is very nice is that it detects these settings and sends the right quality for viewing best on that connection (if you have it set to automatic)

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