My 'Classic' serial won't work either. What is up with this?

I'm also disappointed that I will have to spend even more money - on the App for iPhone AND a new Slingbox, in order to get this functionality. And while it is very easy to say that they had to drop support for the old boxes eventually, these boxes aren't that old, and are still highly functional. Sling decided a couple of years ago there was more money to be had in expanding their product line, and now we're to pay the price.

In any case, is there anyone we can contact on this serial number issue? I'm in Canada.

Thanks

I don't understand this.

Amazon and others are Selling the Pro-HD for $239.95 with free shipping.

Sling is Giving you $50.00 off Sling's store list price to make it $245.95 with free Shipping. But you have to buy from their store for this discount.

What's the great deal here? I was hopping Sling would have given you some sort of Universal Coupon code for one of their dealers.

Very strange this is Sling............

I don't understand this?

Are you sure this is not April Fools day Joke? This just doesn't make any sense.
Why spend time and money to pay someone to set this all up? Just to have Sling's dealers selling the product for less then Sling is with this discount?

Update. My wife just said, "This is great marketing" many people now will buy Sling Boxes from Amazon thinking they are getting a good deal. Because Sling is selling it for higher price. Even with discount. Sling doesn't care as long as they sell the boxes.

Do those 'sling' in a specific codec? I think it may be because the iPhone can only do video that is mp4 or h264 or something of that nature that I know for sure the slingbox hd does... Don't quote me but that was my understanding..

LAME!

They were nearly a year late on delivering the Macintosh player, and now they pull this stunt?

I was an early adopter, and did my best to stick by the company even though they broke promise after promise to Macintosh users. (My Slingbox sat idle for the year I waited for the Macintosh player to be delivered.)

I patiently waited for the Slingplayer app for my iPhone, too. But once again, Sling takes a huge stinky dump all over the early adopters.

So long, Sling. You've lost another customer.

Lame. So Lame. I have the classic and have had it 4 years, i got a touch last year and love it. I would have shelled up upwards of 50 plus for this app from sling, I would've loved to use this, but I'm done for now unless I hear differently.

BOOO!

Not only that, but Macworld was in January, and they would have known this then, but of course nothing was said until now, when we're on the edge of the App finally being available.

To another posters point, I too waited patiently for the Mac version of the Slingbox Player to become available, and have been very happy with it. The iPhone App was going to extend that. Also, the firmware for the Classic is still being evolved and is in current development still, so I don't understand. Maybe some sort of explanation would help all of us....

This is a simple matter of a company getting greedy. Check out the article about this: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/older-slingboxes-wont-work-with-slingplaye... There is no technical reason that the iphone app could not support the older sling units. I have recommended slingbox to many people. That stops as of now.

you'll be back!

SLING IS ASKING CUSTOMERS FOR BAILOUT MONEY. GREED

I purchased your product. I was so pleased with it I recommended it to many people. The thanks I got was a forced hardware upgrade and to pay for the software. I am truly furious over this very poor decision. So many companies make terrible decisions like TiVO who has yet to turn a profit and XM/Sirrius being near bankruptcy compounded by a global economy that is in recession and yet Slingbox turns on its customer base. Sling is simply adopting the Apple screw the customer and force upgrades approach to make money. I have news for them though, they are no Apple nor are they popular enough to succeed in this endevour. Echostar may have found it wise to buy Slingmedia for 380 million dollars but they won't get another penny out of me. As for word of mouth, well... the loyalty Slingmedia shows its customers will be reciprocated proportionally.