Taking Sling TV for a Spin - I tried out Sling TV on an iPhone 6 Plus, an iPad Air 2, and a MacBook Air with no major problems. Devices that are not yet Sling TV-compatible include the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast streaming stick. Microsoft Xbox One and Google Nexus Player compatibility is coming soon. Users of recent Roku streaming-video TV boxes get access, and Sling TV has just added compatibility with the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The service has iOS and Android apps, along with Mac and Windows applications. The EPIX service will also cost an extra monthly fee, which hasn’t yet been announced.īest of all, Sling TV is viewable on just about any device. Sling TV earlier this month said it will soon add the EPIX network with four new channels and 2,000 more video-on-demand titles. No one will join Sling for access to the movies.īut that may change. As with those others, you pay for films individually they aren’t included in the monthly fee. Sling TV also provides a selection of rental movies, such as “Fury,” “Lucy,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy,” much as Google’s Play store, Apple’s iTunes Store, Wal-Mart’s Vudu, and others have long done. But this is simple to remedy for many people with a rooftop antenna that pulls in those channels in pristine, uncompressed high definition, and for free. Sling TV has one major omission: no basic broadcast channels are included. While Comcast gives me archives going back seasons, Sling TV provides only recently aired shows. There are no DVR features for recording video for later playback, unlike my Comcast X1Īrchived content is limited compared to, say, the on-demand programming available from Comcast (some of it free but much not). Live programs can’t be paused, rewound, or fast-forwarded, but archived shows can be. CNN is only viewable live, so I can’t record new episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown”, but I can watch old episodes of his previous show, “No Reservations,” on the Travel Channel. But you are out of luck if you crave Lifetime, A&E, USA, BET, MTV, Bravo, Spike, SyFy, TLC, the History Channel, the Weather Channel, C-Span, Telemundo, Nickelodeon, and many others.Īll supported channels are live, just as they are via a cable or satellite provider, and some also include on-demand access to recently aired episodes. There are also $5 bundles for kids and news junkies. For an extra $5 per month, sports fans can expand from ESPN and ESPN2 to a total of 11 sports channels, including the SEC Network and several other ESPN channels. Sling TV also offers add-on channel tiers. Sling TV recently announced that it will add AMC, home of “The Walking Dead” and the “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul,” along with Univisión, another Latino channel. Sling TV has roughly 30 channels, running the gamut from travel and home repair to general-interest programming on such popular channels as TNT and TBS, with more on the way. Kids can load up the Disney Channel, and Spanish-speaking households like mine can watch Galavisión. For news junkies, there’s CNN and Bloomberg Television. How about cooking? Sling TV users get the Food Network and the Cooking Channel. No cable or satellite TV service is required (an interesting arrangement, since Sling TV is owned by satellite provider Dish Network).ĭo you like sports? Sling TV offers ESPN. Aimed squarely at cord cutters, it offers an array of basic-cable channels for $20 per month, with no contractual obligation. She loves having an on-demand archive of her favorite programs via Comcast’s X1 service, too.īut my case for ditching cable became stronger with a new Internet streaming video service called Sling TV. She’s hooked on such basic-cable shows as “House Hunters International,” “Love It or List It,” and the suspiciously handsome “Property Brothers” on the HGTV channel. I am married, though, and my wife has veto power over decisions like this. I would have canceled my Comcast cable TV service years ago if it were up to me. I’m a wannabe “cord cutter,” forever thwarted. #1688: Former Apple engineer on watchOS 10, Apple hardware testing tool, Stolen Device Protection, Apple Watch sales halted, smart TV privacy abusesįunBITS: Sling TV Is Made for Cord Cutters.#1689: Vision Pro ship date, evaluating new Apple device features, minor OS updates, iPhone passcode thief, Time Machine and iCloud Drive.#1690: BBEdit 15 adds ChatGPT, OS widget usage poll results, Magic Keyboard firmware update.#1691: OS updates with Stolen Device Protection, unwanted Sonoma upgrades, external payments in apps, adjusting touch duration, Blood Oxygen disabled. #1692: Stolen Device Protection, AI voice scams, Apple and the EU’s DMA, the Mac’s 40th anniversary.
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