As for marky mark the walrus and his alter-ego jessijohnson, seek counseling, you need to get those personalities joined, or at least discard one, schizophrenia is a bad thing. Yes, it's obvious that you are one person, probably the guy that makes the TV2me ripoff, or someone promised a discount, commission or kickback for trashing the one product that makes TV2ME a no-go for just about EVERY potential "space shifting appliance" customer.

Yes, in a perfect world, where money was no object, we'd all have a Carrera 4 GT as our daily commuter. hmm, actually, I think still most rational people would still opt for practical, not flashy. Besides, just because you put a porsche price-tag on a yugo, it doesn't make it better than a yugo. The comparison images on TV2me's site doesn't impress me one bit. I wouldn't pay $50 more to get MORE pixelly video, let alone $4,750 more. Is that a Yugo with leather seats and a porsche emblem taped to the hood that you have there?

I've not turned on a TV in my house since I got the slingbox 4 months ago. I watch it at home rather than be tied to the rooms where I have TVs, I watch it at work in downtown DC, I watch it at my friend's condo in Reston Va, I've taken it to New York City on business, and I let my parents watch the nightly news every morning when they were in Berlin, Prague and Budapest a few weeks ago (because they couldn't deal with the straight news you get outside the US, they were going through propoganda withdrawal, they were starting to see the truth, and it's quite scary to those of us who've never been exposed to it at home before. It's a whole different reality in the real world outside the US).

It works great. Either you (I'm referring to both of your logins) have an agenda, or you have a really poorly equipped computer, with a really anemic video card and not enough memory.

I have an idea!

Don't spend $5000 on TV2me. Instead, buy a slingbox, and spend the other $4,750 on a computer that can handle post-20th century applications like high quality streaming video. Buy TWO! Get TWO slingboxes and TWO decent computers! (or get a laptop AND a desktop) Two, two, two treats in one.

Jesse did a google search for SlingBox and cut and paste his rant into every forum he could find. Why would he do this? Perhaps because his headers on an unrelated post contains "TV2ME".

TV2ME is full of exaggerated half-truths and with the success of SlingBox, his box is worthless.

Boris

I am currently in England and have been watching my Direct TV connection that sits on my desk in Los Angeles for the past week. I have had zero problems. The picture is great. I can change channels at will. I have also tried it on multiple connections in the UK, all via wireless to my laptop. I have had no problems. I would like to be able to place a sling box in the UK and watch my Sky TV programming back in LA. I was able to blow up a Sling box I brought from the states for that purpose. I would also like to see the Mac software made available. So I can stop carrying 2 laptops. One for business and one for my Slinging. I have looked at this supposed other solution TV2me. It costs $4,000.00 it is now obsolete. I would recommend that the gentlemen placing these bogus postings go and do something with their product that will make it competitive to Sling Media rather than trying to convince people that they should pay the extra $4,000.00 to buy a product that is so obviously obsolete. I also don't like the fact that these people are lying about Sling media and then expect us to believe them when they say their product is so much better. If they can lie about Sling media I bet they would have no problem lying about their own product.

The only possible advantage that TV2Me might have over SlingBox is for use as a cable head-end in places like diplomatic compounds and military bases - I mention them as they're usually treated as national territory of the country in question, so there's less of a rights issue.

Eventually there should be something that can allow you to watch SlingBox on your TV set, just like there are analog telephone adapters for people who want to make and receive internet calls without your computer switched on.

Maybe something like this: http://www.lamabox.com/index.php?opti...

flypitcher: while people in the UK might well be charged pounds for what people are paying in dollars, there's still the option buying in other European countries when the PAL/SECAM version becomes available. Getting adapters for UK three-pin electrical plugs is less hassle than NTSC-to-PAL converters.

I had to laugh when I saw this on TV2Me's website:

He watches Manchester mash Birmingham again, though he's touring Japan.

Doesn't sound very convincing: which team called 'Manchester'? Maybe City, as United wouldn't be playing Birmingham. Heck, even I know that and I could(n't) care less about the game - although anyone who does and wants Sky Sports is welcome to make enquiries.

professor, r u really a professor? if so which university do you teach at?

My website featuring more slingbox help is at www.butkus.co.uk

Another good question is, who has a 1.5Mbs LAN these days? They clearly spent so much on the TV2Me they can't afford a new switch and are stuck with one from the 70s!

Does this person know anything?!

Obviously, the reference to "1.5Mbs LAN " meant a LAN connected to a T1....

I don't know what costs $5K on that TV2ME but here is the PC that they are using for a mere $350

http://www.efranchiseusa.com/item/Asu...

David is correct. It's all about the bandwith that NOONE has (it's the UPLOAD speed that kills it). This thing for $5k will NOT run in full quality anything without the bandwith. ON TOP OF you can get the hardware for treefitty.

This has to be a JOKE! TV2Me? $5000!?!?!? How can anyone justify that? How good can it possibly be if they use a scan converter as the input? They have a side by side comparison of the competition which is completely dishonest! Get out of here, Sling is the BEST!