Read through the forums and educate yourself. Sling can also be connectedd to a cable box, analog cable or an antenna if your desperate, I suppose. Mine is connected to a comcast cable box.

Jake

Stephen, where are you from/living and where do you want to get TV from?

You cannot use the SlingBox to receive TV channels, you use it to sling (hence the name) the TV signal from your home, be it satellite, cable, terrestrial or IPTV. Similarly, the SlingCatcher (when it finally comes out) can only be used for viewing channels streamed from your SlingBox.

There are sites that stream live TV channels online, some of which are pay services like Jump TV, but you would watch those on your PC, not using a SlingBox. There are IPTV services, but these are closed systems - you can only use them with that ISP in that country. You could connect your IPTV set top box to a SlingBox, and then watch it remotely.

We would all love to be able to get any TV channel in the world we want just by going online, but rights holders don't feel the same way. Sling has tried to keep on the right side of the law, by ensuring that only one person can access TV from a SlingBox. 

The slingbox itself is not a TV signal. It can be hooked up to cable TV or a digital cable tv stb. It can also be hooked up to a satellite receiver and if that receiver can stream one or more dishes you can get whatever may be added to the receiver.

It is not necessarily possible to be able to add many providers together unless you have combinations of free to air channels as well as pay channels.

Please read the forum rules here. It is not allowed for links to hosting sling sites to be given.

Also the sling has to be where the source is located. So if you wanted US content your sling would have to be in the USA. You would view and control the sling with software on your side.

IF you wanted content from Asia the sling would have to be attached to devices there, same for outside of the UK in Europe.

There are two or 3 commercial operators with sling hosting services around the world. 

Nobody has called you stupid so you need not be so agressive in your posts. The forum members here are just doing there best to explain what a sling does, which is nothing by itself.

Obviously you have recognised the screen shots I posted as being from DSTV South Africa Superports channels.

The question to obtaining many packages is what language programming content do you want and how much are you willing to pay to get it.  There are many free to air channels but also many packages are pay packages that cost US$100 per month or more in subscription fees.

Just take the top SKY UK packages which costs close to that.

If Evolution Works, Why So Many Idiots?

There is nothing stupid in asking you where you are from or living, nor where you want TV from. It appears that while you live in the UK, English is not your first language, which would suggest that you might want TV channels in a language other than English.

You might well be able to use the SlingCatcher to watch video from the Internet on your TV (see this article) but not SlingBox.