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Starting today, the highly anticipated Sling TV launches to the general public with a 7-day free trial. You get 14 live cable TV channels in the basic package: ESPN, ESPN 2, CNN, Disney Channel, TNT, TBS, ABC Family, Food Network, HGTV, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Spanish-language Galavision and the recently added AMC (coming very soon).

The basic package is $20 per month with additional packages (news, sports and kids) for an additional $5 each.

Sling TV is available on multiple devices at launch, including iOS and Android devices, Mac and PC and Roku players. Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Xbox One and Nexus Player support are expected soon.

Sling TV scored a solid 8 out of 10 in our CheckOut review, and it has potential to get better.
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meringo
Ben's cred: 43
Posted 02/09/2015 at 11:59 AM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 11:59 AM PT
Give me Comedy Central and I'm in.
sca2999
Ben's cred: 2
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:07 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:07 PM PT
They had me at ESPN but with AMC coming... I am in day 3 of my 7 day trial.
daving313
Ben's cred: 22
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:42 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:42 PM PT
But you can't DVR anything and video-on-demand is very limited - only for watching live TV. What's the point?
cubancheapskate
Ben's cred: 574
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:58 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 12:58 PM PT
Good start and price point but no go in my household with one stream allowed and no DVR.
txcrude
Ben's cred: 96
Posted 02/09/2015 at 01:08 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 01:08 PM PT
"and the recently added AMC (coming very soon)"

now we are talking ... I have been asking for AMC since the day they first announced Sling TV.

"Can only watch on one device at a time"

What if I am travelling ? No one else in my household can watch ? Or if one person wants to watch ESPN and another something else ?

Surely they could limit it to the same home network (IP).

booohoooo !!!
armyant11
Ben's cred: -6
Posted 02/09/2015 at 01:54 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 01:54 PM PT
forget Sling. you'll be slinging your cash to them. just do a google search for live amc streaming now or something like that. you'll get a lot of pirated sites. Just don't download anything and use a pc that you wouldn't use for banking or anything important. done. all this should be a dollar. that's it. 25 cents a channel. these networks make billions and these providers make billions just streaming. enough with this nonsense.
BenKat
Ben's cred: 621
Posted 02/09/2015 at 03:25 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 03:25 PM PT
Nothing to see here people, move along. I'm not paying to see sports, especially ESPN.
icmworld
Ben's cred: 1
Posted 02/09/2015 at 04:59 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 04:59 PM PT
14 live channels for $20, which is $1.428 per channel. I only need Cartoon network for my kids. If they allow me to pay $1.50 per month for just 1 channel. Which is equal 5 cent per day. I am in. otherwise, not a good deal!
dave_c
Ben's cred: 5863
Posted 02/09/2015 at 06:06 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 06:06 PM PT
I only need 2 channels for an hour a day, except on weekends so I want to pay 9 cents a month except in August when I'm mostly outside. :P
UUMike
Ben's cred: 12
Posted 02/09/2015 at 07:19 PM PT
Posted 02/09/2015 at 07:19 PM PT
In these days of time-shifting with DVR's and on-demand viewing, a handful of live streaming channels has absolutely no appeal to me.
lostemple
Ben's cred: 84
Posted 02/10/2015 at 05:22 AM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 05:22 AM PT
Not enough channels yet to justify the expense. Good the other cable/satellite companies have competition.
mleejr
Ben's cred: 123
Posted 02/10/2015 at 07:23 AM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 07:23 AM PT
I really want this for the streaming CNN, and I saw a guy that wanted Cartoon Network for his kids (me too probably) but I have to buy this 'bundle'. It seems to have the same problem that cable does. I have to buy this 'bundle'. I don't care about sports. I just want 2-4 channels out of this but I can't just pay 1-2$ per channel and have to pay 20$ for this whole thing. I love the idea of this. Streaming channels live to a roku/device is a great start. I just wish they'd unbundle this or allow me to choose my bundle. ie: The more channels you add to your bundle, the cheaper it is per channel. I can order dish network for 2 years and get like 60 channels for this price. Glad to see the idea of this, just needs some tweaks.
rotorrocket
Ben's cred: 79
Posted 02/10/2015 at 07:54 AM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 07:54 AM PT
When I can merge Sling w/ OTA channels into a single interface and have the ability to DVR, I'll jump in with two feet.
Enduro
Ben's cred: 153
Posted 02/10/2015 at 08:32 AM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 08:32 AM PT
I'm thinking about doing this with a Tivo Romio... which I hopefully will add an app for this soon. Or perhaps the Mohu Channels which is an OTA tuner with apps (and hopefully this soon). I think it's a pretty good compromise, so long as my MLB.TV blackout workarounds continue to work. This is enough content to keep me content.

For those of you asking for a single channel for a buck a month I hope you're being sarcastic. If not, please enjoy this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c
dave_c
Ben's cred: 5863
Posted 02/10/2015 at 08:59 AM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 08:59 AM PT
Yeah they're not going to unbundle and sell channels separately any day soon because it ruins their profit model. More likely the day will come when you get individual channels direct from the network owner.
mdavisson
Ben's cred: 1
Posted 02/10/2015 at 01:04 PM PT
Posted 02/10/2015 at 01:04 PM PT
What happened to the $10 price tag? Netflix has this "Sling" beat all to heck.
$20 is WAY too much for such limited programming!
Enduro
Ben's cred: 153
Posted 02/11/2015 at 10:53 AM PT
Posted 02/11/2015 at 10:53 AM PT
I think 10 bucks without ESPN would be reasonable. I'd probably opt for that since the only think I like on ESPN is Olbermann and I can get a commercial free podcast of that.