Sling gives you two choices as your base level: Orange, for $20 which includes ESPN / Disney, and Blue, $25 which does not. Blue does include SYFY and a few others not found in the Orange package. I chose Blue.
To this you can add various mini tiers, called Extras, for diverse interests: Lifestyle, Comedy, Kids, etc. I chose the Hollywood Extra primarily for Turner Classic Movies, for $5.
Before going further, I would like to stop a moment and rate the technical quality of the HD content delivery: Excellent, better than anticipated. Zero buffering, ZERO pixellation, even during action sequences. The guide is very flexible and comprehensive, can be configured a number of different ways.
I'd like to wrap this up by listing my favorite "favorites". My actual Favorites list is about nine or ten times longer than what I am about to list here. This is some of what my $30 a month gets me:
AMC
A&E
HISTORY
SYFY
*TCM*
AXS-TV (Live concerts n' stuff)
Living In DFW, I am also provided with the local Fox and NBC affiliates. I assume other metro areas do this as well.
Now follows the downer portion of our narrative: What's missing? Not too much. Discovery (gonna miss the Gas Monkeys), Fox News (which is all over Youtube). That's about it. Not too bad for thirty bucks a month, huh?
My real reason for making this post was to let you all know how happy I have been with the technical presentation. It truly has been flawless.
Cooking Channel? My wife demands it.
No METV? That means no Svengoolie.
You didn’t cut the cord. You just went to a different one.
How is it done through a laptop? Or does it have be through a smartphone?
Gonna try out Pluto TV soon off roku. I hear its pretty good. Lotsa stuff, free.
$30 bucks is a lot.
For BS.
Content should be available ala carte for PENNIES!
GOYIM PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m about ready to do it, so very timely and appreciated. I’ll mix Fox News, but I can get the full audio on SiriusXM and usually I just listen to it anyway. In fact sometimes I’ve looked at the screen while the usual commercials are playing and realize I’ve heard them a zillion times but had no idea what the people in them looked like!
Getting intrigued...
Anybody use these “over the top” dinguses with DSL?
Like 3 Mbps download, Latency: 72 ms?
Netflix was usable but kinda rough.
I have Sling TV Orange with the sports package ($25)/month. There is more sports than I would ever want to watch.
During peak Saturday football (I won’t watch the NFL anymore.) there may be some short pauses but not too bad. I’ve never noticed it on any of the other channels.
This year I got a Roku Stick for paying 2 months initially. It’s in another room but it seems to work OK. I drop Sling TV after March Madness and pick it up again around Sept. 1st.
I find the Sling TV website very hard to navigate.
Sling TV is heavily marketed toward Spanish speakers. Their commercials - even when in English - send clear messages to Hispanics by who they hire as a spokesman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjRK6LW-Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In4bTfKPUWI
“A Cord cutter’s review of Sling TV”
Obviously not a cord cutter. Lets call you what you are - an addict who is looking elsewhere for a fix.
Everytime I wanted to quit Facebook I didn’t because I couldn’t find an alternative that I liked. it took me decades to quit smoking because I couldn’t find anything to replace it.
“Cord cutters” are addicts. Think of it in this way and the solutions will be clearer.
We have Sling Blue, no ESPN, but it grinds me that we still pay for the cr@p on CNN.
I’m just about ready to chuck it all.
I’ll chime in here. No TV, no cable. Internet, and all that implies :) via Straight Talk hotspot which is actually a cell phone modem. I’m happy.
Wish: that Straight Talk would introduce an unlimited data plan.
If you have a Roku advice, I recommend you download and subscribe to One America News. Fox News is CNN by comparison. It will restore your faith in broadcast media.
We cut the cord as of Nov 1. We are using Playstation Vue. The only thing I miss from Direct TV is the guide, but it wasn’t worth $100 extra for a guide.
Thanks for posting.
Can I ask about your internet provider? Do you see an increase in bandwidth fees?
Bkmk
Good to know. I’m just north of DFW and I’m pretty much stuck with Frontier......for interweb. As soon as there is another reasonable choice, I’ll bail. Frontier is the worst internet provider and probably the worst business period I have ever dealt with.