Yesterday I got an invite to try Sling TV (www.sling.com). Sling TV is a subsidiary of Dish Network and it took home the best in show at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year. It offers a minimal cable package including: ESPN, ESPN2, CNN, ABC Family, Disney, TBS, TNT, Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, El Ray, Maker, and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim. All this for just $20 a month. I'm thinking the ESPN channels alone make it worth it, but with all the added content, it's a good deal. And these are available over the internet. You can add a Kids package (Disney Junior, Disney XD, Baby TV, Boomerang, and Duck TV) a news package or a sports package for $5 each.
This is the future of television and for me, allows me to watch ESPN, HGTV, Food Network and Disney legally for minimal cost. We got rid of cable a number of years ago, which made watching sports a difficult affair. But now, I can access football, Basketball, and other sports live without paying $100 a month for cable.
About the only drawbacks to Sling TV is that it doesn't include more stations (it doesn't include broadcast channels like CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox, although I get them through a decent antenna streamed to my phone through Tivo) and that you can only watch Sling TV on one device (although I heard a rumor they might increase it to three). Other than that, I am super excited to be a Sling TV customer and am enjoying cable TV for the first time in a while. Check out the brief video below to see how it works on the mac.
This is the future of television and for me, allows me to watch ESPN, HGTV, Food Network and Disney legally for minimal cost. We got rid of cable a number of years ago, which made watching sports a difficult affair. But now, I can access football, Basketball, and other sports live without paying $100 a month for cable.
About the only drawbacks to Sling TV is that it doesn't include more stations (it doesn't include broadcast channels like CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox, although I get them through a decent antenna streamed to my phone through Tivo) and that you can only watch Sling TV on one device (although I heard a rumor they might increase it to three). Other than that, I am super excited to be a Sling TV customer and am enjoying cable TV for the first time in a while. Check out the brief video below to see how it works on the mac.
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