Sling TV, a $20 a month streaming-only cable television subscription service coming to the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, will begin sending out their first batch of sign-up invitations tonight at 9 p.m. PT. Invitations will come with a 1 week free trial offer. If all goes well, the service will fully launch to everyone in about 2 weeks. Sling is also promising to offer device bundle packages that will be announced soon. No word if these bundles will just be extended trial periods, like the 30 day free trial announced for Xbox One owners, or if they will include service discounts.
Early reviews of Sling TV have been praising the service’s picture quality and fast channel flipping experience. The service’s DVR aspects, on the other hand, have left reviewers wanting more. Most channels, including ESPN and ESPN 2, don’t offer any DVR features and can only be watched live. It’s clear Sling TV, in its current form at least, isn’t the cable subscription savior we’ve all been hoping for, but it’s shaping up to be a great starting step.
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How do you get on the invite list?
http://www.sling.com/
Thanks!
This should be good,can’t wait. Now if we can only get local channels the same way this would be perfect,at least for me.
Why not just use an antenna?
Some of us don’t get any good local channels with an antenna where we live. I only get PBS where I live. All the good channels are either in the Twin Cities or Sioux Falls which are MILES away from me.
http://store.gomohu.com/sky-hdtv-outdoor-antenna.html
I live in Northern Virginia and receive Baltimore and Richmond stations with this thing. Crystal clear local channels.
I get fox,cbs,abc,nbc and a few other i don’t care for but i paid $11 for my antenna so it was well worth it now i just need slingtv…
There is no antenna that will pick up ESPN
Correct. And this service provides ESPN. The OP wanted local channels in addition to this package. That doesn’t seem necessary with an Antenna option (if available to you).
Up high and to far away for antenna
Seems a bit expensive for the tiny amount of channels the service provides.
All about what it would take to land ESPN. Live sports are the huge cost drivers. All cable/satellite customers pay ~$7-$8 per month for just ESPN, whether they watch it or not. They actually did a decent job of negotiating something with Disney that would get a price point consumers will buy in at; a lot of predictions had a standalone ESPN product upwards of $30 if it ever got here.
Any body buy it?
I signed up the first day it was available for invite. It’s 9:12 PST now and I didn’t get any invite yet. Can anyone confirm they got an email with an invite yet?
Did anyone get an invite ??
Not yet.
I guess they aren’t running on time
No invite =/
interesting .. still no invites ..
I think that nobody got an an invite.
it’s probably delayed or maybe there server is down or something.
maybe by the end of the night somebody will have an invite
getting my hopes up
@Sling: The latest: Invites have started to go out, but starting slowly. Thanks for your patience.
m.twitter.com/Sling
Hope the service is not as bad/slow as the invitations ..
I am still waiting…Signed up as soon as I heard about it. Looking forward to it. But nothing in my mail yet…
Still no invite as of 1-29-15. Would love to have had this before Superbowl Sunday just to watch ESPN pre and post game coverage. Not very promising considering the size of the host company where it’s coming from. Oh well……. :(
Invites started going out a couple hours or so ago. People on reddit, Facebook, and Twitter have been reporting that they’ve received theirs. Fingers crossed that the rest of us receive ours soon enough.
The single biggest gotcha for me is that you can only stream to one device at a time. For the limited amount of channels and the one device limit makes this not all that great. If anything it should be at least s devices and then maybe a small fee to add additional devices.
That’s the GOTCHA! Maybe a “deal” for someone who’s single and doesn’t have another family member wanting to watch something different. But for me – I’ve got a wife and 2 kids – and we have 6 TVs. Lets say we bought 4 subscriptions (@$80) for this very TINY number of channels – PLUS the $50/month for cable internet to watch them – that’s $130/month – about what I’m paying Time Warner already for a HELLUVA LOT MORE channels, INCLUDING internet, phone and DVR service.
NO DEAL HERE.
I just received my invitation..you have to call them over the phone and provide them with your credit card or debit card number/personal information just to get seven days for free and they could only do it over the phone you can’t do it online I felt very uncomfortable doing it and i did not sign up the customer service rep felt agitated by me not giving out my information beware!!!
I tried calling to activate. The call center (person answering the phone?) was unprofessional. When they first answered all I heard was background noise and people talking. It must have taken at least 30 seconds to say hello–after I shouted hello in the phone three or four times. Then I had to tell them what I was calling about–it is not a dedicated service for Sling TV. I’ll simply say communication was challenging. Then they wanted my credit card number? Really? I was extremely uncomfortable giving out my cc number. I don’t know, Sling TV, I was excited at the prospect of this service but your execution leaves quite a bit to be desired.
I would like to know more information about sling tv how much more the sports and HBO comedy plus extra would all be together