Installing Your Slingbox

Read on and learn all you need to know and more about the installation of your Slingbox. Connecting devices can be intimidating, but our goal is to make the installation a user-friendly experience, because once your Slingbox is connected, you'll be hooked!

Assumptions

If you have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and a cable or satellite box, your DVR is connected to your cable/satellite box and you are using one of the following to control your cable/satellite box:

• an IR emitter (sometimes called an IR blaster)


• a serial cable


• You have a DSL or cable router


• Your router is properly configured

IMPORTANT: If you have a high definition DVR, and you are using Component Out to connect to your TV, it may be the only active output (the standard outputs may be inactive in this case). You should use the standard outputs to connect your DVR to the Slingbox.

NOTE: You'll be notified on this site when new software is available for your Slingbox and how to get it.

Connections Demystified

If you're reading this you get the basic idea of what the Slingbox can do and why you have to add it to your growing mountain of A/V devices.

You connect your television source (antenna, cable, satellite, even through a DVR) to the Slingbox, then connect the Slingbox to your home network and watch your living room TV programming from wherever you are by turning [[ad]]any laptop or Internet device into a personal television. It's that simple.

Audio and Video Connections

Connecting Your Television Source

IMPORTANT: If you are using a DVR and a cable or satellite box, the DVR should be connected to your cable or satellite box.

If You Have a Cable Box, Satellite Box or DVR

Connect a supplied A/V cable from the unused OUTPUTS on your cable box, satellite box, or DVR (whichever is connected directly to your TV) to the AUDIO/VIDEO IN plug on the Slingbox. If your cable box, satellite box, or DVR does not have available outputs to connect directly to the Slingbox, complete the optional connection shown in step so your TV receives the television signal.

TIP: If your cable box, satellite box or DVR has S-VIDEO OUT, use the supplied S-VIDEO cable instead of the yellow video cable from this device to the Slingbox. You still need to connect the red and white audio cables.

If Your TV has a VHF/UHF Input Only

If the incoming antenna or cable TV source is connected directly to your television, add a
cable splitter, with one output going to your TV and the other connected to the
ANTENNA/CABLE In plug on the Slingbox.

About the Audio and Video Cables

Refer to the "Connection Overview" article for information on the audio and video cables used to connect your television source to your Slingbox.

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