Anybody here have Sling TV?

[op2]

I don't have cable anymore and I have a Roku and Sling TV is on it as an option for $20 per month. And in non-football season I can live without ESPN and ESPN2 (which is on Sling TV, as well as a dozen or so other channels that are normally on cable). But in football season not only do I miss all the college football on ESPN and ESPN2 but also Monday Night Football. Not that I watch every single game anyway, but it's nice to have a lot of games as an option because then the one you want it likely to be on. For starters I missed several WVU games last fall because I didn't have ESPN and ESPN2.

So I'm considering subscribing to Sling TV for football season and then cancelling afterwards, even though it means giving money to the evil empire that is ESPN. I don't know, I haven't decided for sure yet, so I thought I'd solicit the opinion of others.

 

[mule_eer]

I would see what your real cost will be. If memory serves, more of our games were on Fox Sports 1 than the ESPN networks, with a couple of the early games on Root Sports. I would look to see if you can add those also, and what sort of additional cost would that be.

 

[op2]

I would see what your real cost will be. If memory serves, more of our games were on Fox Sports 1 than the ESPN networks, with a couple of the early games on Root Sports. I would look to see if you can add those also, and what sort of additional cost would that be.

Now that you mention it, I do think the Big 12 has a relationship with the Fox cable sports network. It's not available on Sling though. You pay $20 and get the basic 20 channels or so and then you have the option of paying chunks more for other chunks of channels and in the extra sports chunk there is no Fox Sports. So yeah, if I get ESPN and ESPN2 then I probably won't be expanding my WVU viewing much.

 

[dave]

Bynthe time you pay extra for all that you want and consider your personal time you take to get it all.set up you might as well get cable.

 

[op2]

Bynthe time you pay extra for all that you want and consider your personal time you take to get it all.set up you might as well get cable.

I've never actually done it before but my impression is that it will just take a couple minutes of entering my credit card info on the TV screen and then a minute on the TV screen someday (which would be after football season ends) if I want to cancel. It's $20 per month (although I do wonder if there will be taxes atop that) and I don't have to arrange a time for anyone to come to my house. And I can cancel anytime in two minutes from the comfort of my living room with no penalty (except that if I cancel halfway through a month I have to pay for that whole month). And then resume anytime I want (probably before next football season) in two minutes from the comfort of my living room.

I have a modem on order from Amazon and after I get it and set it up and return my cable company modem to the cable company I'm going to have no cable company equipment in my house and I'm never going to need them to come to my house.

 

[moe]

I don't have cable anymore and I have a Roku and Sling TV is on it as an option for $20 per month. And in non-football season I can live without ESPN and ESPN2 (which is on Sling TV, as well as a dozen or so other channels that are normally on cable). But in football season not only do I miss all the college football on ESPN and ESPN2 but also Monday Night Football. Not that I watch every single game anyway, but it's nice to have a lot of games as an option because then the one you want it likely to be on. For starters I missed several WVU games last fall because I didn't have ESPN and ESPN2.

So I'm considering subscribing to Sling TV for football season and then cancelling afterwards, even though it means giving money to the evil empire that is ESPN. I don't know, I haven't decided for sure yet, so I thought I'd solicit the opinion of others.

I'm out of the loop on the whole internet tv thing, what is the source of your internet signal?

 

[op2]

The source of my internet signal is Time Warner Cable so I'm not able to do without them entirely unfortunately. There are no other options as far as I know.

But the only piece of TWC equipment in my house is the modem, which they charge me $8 per month to rent, and when the modem I bought from Amazon arrives (there has been a delay on it) I'll return the TWC modem to TWC and have nothing left that belongs to TWC in my house.

But yes, the internet signal coming out of the wall comes from TWC and I have to pay them for it.

I bought the modem a month ago and it had capabilities way above my internet speed at the time, since I was planning for the future. Then while I was waiting for the modem to arrive TWC wrote and said "We're upgrading your internet speed, for the same money you'll get faster internet, however you'll need a better modem for it, so return your TWC modem to us and we'll give you a better one to use instead."

I bet that when they give you this new, better modem it'll be "Oh, by the way, since this modem is better than the one you've been renting from us for $8 per month, we're going to charge you more." But they're not going to get the chance with me because when I return the modem, after I have my new modem hooked up and working, I'm going to tell them "Don't bother giving me a new modem, just take the monthly rental charge off my bill."

 

[moe]

The source of my internet signal is Time Warner Cable so I'm not able to do without them entirely unfortunately. There are no other options as far as I know.

But the only piece of TWC equipment in my house is the modem, which they charge me $8 per month to rent, and when the modem I bought from Amazon arrives (there has been a delay on it) I'll return the TWC modem to TWC and have nothing left that belongs to TWC in my house.

But yes, the internet signal coming out of the wall comes from TWC and I have to pay them for it.

I bought the modem a month ago and it had capabilities way above my internet speed at the time, since I was planning for the future. Then while I was waiting for the modem to arrive TWC wrote and said "We're upgrading your internet speed, for the same money you'll get faster internet, however you'll need a better modem for it, so return your TWC modem to us and we'll give you a better one to use instead."

I bet that when they give you this new, better modem it'll be "Oh, by the way, since this modem is better than the one you've been renting from us for $8 per month, we're going to charge you more." But they're not going to get the chance with me because when I return the modem, after I have my new modem hooked up and working, I'm going to tell them "Don't bother giving me a new modem, just take the monthly rental charge off my bill."

I'm still a cable guy. I'll let the cable bill go higher and the internet tv offerings grow and at some point I might make the leap. I'm always reading about "cutting the cord" (cable) and had wondered if and how you did that but you haven't except that you're not getting your tv programming from cable which is maybe what they mean when they say that.

 

[EERs 3:16]

I don't have cable anymore and I have a Roku and Sling TV is on it as an option for $20 per month. And in non-football season I can live without ESPN and ESPN2 (which is on Sling TV, as well as a dozen or so other channels that are normally on cable). But in football season not only do I miss all the college football on ESPN and ESPN2 but also Monday Night Football. Not that I watch every single game anyway, but it's nice to have a lot of games as an option because then the one you want it likely to be on. For starters I missed several WVU games last fall because I didn't have ESPN and ESPN2.

So I'm considering subscribing to Sling TV for football season and then cancelling afterwards, even though it means giving money to the evil empire that is ESPN. I don't know, I haven't decided for sure yet, so I thought I'd solicit the opinion of others.

Waste of money. basic cable + high speed internet + streaming device + user name to cable provider = instant access to the ESPN.Com app and all the content. Everything else should be handled through a Netflix account

 

[moe]

Waste of money. basic cable + high speed internet + streaming device + user name to cable provider = instant access to the ESPN.Com app and all the content. Everything else should be handled through a Netflix account

So basic cable is non-HD and most everything else is HD?

 

[EERs 3:16]

The source of my internet signal is Time Warner Cable so I'm not able to do without them entirely unfortunately. There are no other options as far as I know.

But the only piece of TWC equipment in my house is the modem, which they charge me $8 per month to rent, and when the modem I bought from Amazon arrives (there has been a delay on it) I'll return the TWC modem to TWC and have nothing left that belongs to TWC in my house.

But yes, the internet signal coming out of the wall comes from TWC and I have to pay them for it.

I bought the modem a month ago and it had capabilities way above my internet speed at the time, since I was planning for the future. Then while I was waiting for the modem to arrive TWC wrote and said "We're upgrading your internet speed, for the same money you'll get faster internet, however you'll need a better modem for it, so return your TWC modem to us and we'll give you a better one to use instead."

I bet that when they give you this new, better modem it'll be "Oh, by the way, since this modem is better than the one you've been renting from us for $8 per month, we're going to charge you more." But they're not going to get the chance with me because when I return the modem, after I have my new modem hooked up and working, I'm going to tell them "Don't bother giving me a new modem, just take the monthly rental charge off my bill."

Getting rid of the router won't prevent them from reading your thoughts; if you want to do it right, you have to line your walls with tin foil

 

[EERs 3:16]

So basic cable is non-HD and most everything else is HD?

As long as your connection can handle the bandwidth

 

[op2]

I'm still a cable guy. I'll let the cable bill go higher and the internet tv offerings grow and at some point I might make the leap. I'm always reading about "cutting the cord" (cable) and had wondered if and how you did that but you haven't except that you're not getting your tv programming from cable which is maybe what they mean when they say that.

Yes, when people say "cut the cord" they mean only getting rid of cable TV. The same company that provides cable TV is often the only company you can get the Internet from so you kinda have no choice but to keep the cable company for that.

The cable company is charging you more and more but if you called them up and made a fuss and threatened to leave they might lower your bill. And new customers signing up with the cable company are certainly getting a much better deal than you. That is one of the things that bugged me about the cable company.

The cable company counts on people doing something that will save them money now but cost them more in the long run. One is to sign up for a cheap deal to start with and get a good deal for a year. They know that after a year they can raise the rates again and again and most people will just take it because it's a pain to change.

The other thing is the modem rental. I paid almost $100 for a nice modem and it'll save me $8 per month. If I had done that five years ago I'd be $400 ahead now. But the cable company counts on people thinking "$100 out of my pocket today to buy a modem? That's too steep."

 

[moe]

Yes, when people say "cut the cord" they mean only getting rid of cable TV. The same company that provides cable TV is often the only company you can get the Internet from so you kinda have no choice but to keep the cable company for that.

The cable company is charging you more and more but if you called them up and made a fuss and threatened to leave they might lower your bill. And new customers signing up with the cable company are certainly getting a much better deal than you. That is one of the things that bugged me about the cable company.

The cable company counts on people doing something that will save them money now but cost them more in the long run. One is to sign up for a cheap deal to start with and get a good deal for a year. They know that after a year they can raise the rates again and again and most people will just take it because it's a pain to change.

The other thing is the modem rental. I paid almost $100 for a nice modem and it'll save me $8 per month. If I had done that five years ago I'd be $400 ahead now. But the cable company counts on people thinking "$100 out of my pocket today to buy a modem? That's too steep."

I've only been in this house 2 years and got lots of price breaks switching from Directv to cable but yes those discounts are now expired and I'm paying the full rate. I was aware of the modem rent/purchase issue and have been renting so far, may change that soon.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

I don't have cable anymore and I have a Roku and Sling TV is on it as an option for $20 per month. And in non-football season I can live without ESPN and ESPN2 (which is on Sling TV, as well as a dozen or so other channels that are normally on cable). But in football season not only do I miss all the college football on ESPN and ESPN2 but also Monday Night Football. Not that I watch every single game anyway, but it's nice to have a lot of games as an option because then the one you want it likely to be on. For starters I missed several WVU games last fall because I didn't have ESPN and ESPN2.

So I'm considering subscribing to Sling TV for football season and then cancelling afterwards, even though it means giving money to the evil empire that is ESPN. I don't know, I haven't decided for sure yet, so I thought I'd solicit the opinion of others.

I have heard nothing but negative reviews from the people I know that have tried Sling TV. Constant buffering, lags, etc.

You may have better luck with better Internet? I'd recommend only signing up for a trial run to begin with.

OR

Borrow a friend's ESPNGO log in.

 

[Mntneer]

I have heard nothing but negative reviews from the people I know that have tried Sling TV. Constant buffering, lags, etc.

You may have better luck with better Internet? I'd recommend only signing up for a trial run to begin with.

OR

Borrow a friend's ESPNGO log in.

From what's I've heard, if you don't have a good upstream connection then the Sling devices won't work well for you.