sling box question

[cpmer]

My mom is going over to japan for work. Her friend at her who works over there uses slingbox to watch american tv. I looked at the slingbox and realize im gonna have to hook the box to my directv dvr so it can stream the video over the net to her laptop over there. My question is how does she change the channels on the directv reciever because all i see for hookups are componet and rca hookups. Also for anyone who has one of these whats the picture quality like and do you have any problems with this?

 

[gorcorps]

The software allows channel changing through the coax input if I remember right.

 

[JasonK]

no, channel changing is based off the IR you tape on to your receiver box... the key to goo d video quality on a slingbox is the upload speed of the net connection

 

[mpitts]

It uses an IR Blaster that relays the remote codes the directv box. During the setup of the Slingbox, you tell it what type of box it will be controlling. It literally has a replica of the remote for the box integrated in the software to change channels/record/etc.

I use one all the time and it picture quality is fully dependant on the speed of the connections; upload for the slingbox network and download for the end-user. On my 768k upload, the picture of live sports is more than adequate.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It has a infared transceiver that sends out the channel changing codes kind of thing. It's streaming video so it's as good as your internet connection on both sides.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: JasonK
no, channel changing is based off the IR you tape on to your receiver box... the key to goo d video quality on a slingbox is the upload speed of the net connection

Yup.

I use it to watch TV on my home office. Works great over a LAN. Less so over the internet.