Customers have good things to say about the ease of use and signal quality of the OTA DVR & Streaming Player, citing seamless setup and integration with other apps, as well as superb picture and audio quality. However, the DVR functionality receives considerable negative feedback, with users reporting issues such as disconnections, recording failures, and pausing limitations. Problems with the hard drive, including disconnection messages and interference with viewing, are also frequently mentioned.
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I bought this to connect to an antenna so I can receive local channels with my Sling subscription. It’s a little pricey but works well for the channels you get over the antenna. It was a little difficult to. Figure it out but I eventually did it. I had to connect an external drive to recorded the local channels. Advice: Use the Sling app on your phone and in the settings connect to the AirTV box and set it up that way.
Posted by Timid
This works great. It streams live tv for free and it combines the live tv channels with my sling channels into a single menu. It saves me money because streaming services that include live local channels (Hulu live, youtube tv, etc) are more expensive than my sling subscription. I do have several complaints. You can setup the device to stream channels to a sling account or an airtv account but NOT both. Also the DVR function only works in the sling app and not the airtv app. The function to combine live channels with my sling channels only works on certain devices. It works on my iphone sling app but not my Macbook web browser. It works on my Roku sling app but not on my new QLED Samsung tv sling app. It works on the Amazon fire tv sling app but not my new 4k apple tv sling app. So all these devices have a sling app but only the sling app on certain devices will combine live channels with sling channels. I wish this was listed somewhere instead of me having to contact customer support to get it figured out.
Posted by Gabe
As a family of 3. There is a regular struggle with being able to record and watch enough shows at the same time with the boxes limitations. That, however, isn’t the only limitation(s). 1) 802.11n is an extremely old Wi-Fi standard that was created back in 2009. This needs to be at *LEAST* updated to the newer 802.11ac (created in 2014, which is what nearly every electronic on the market is made with these days) or 802.11ax (the latest and greatest of 2019). I believe this to be at least one of the causes of my Wi-Fi issues, given that my internet speeds are 250 MBPS download and 13 MBPS upload, I shouldn’t be seeing pinwheel loading pauses during my shows. In fact, the loading pauses were so bad that I had to hardwire it, which did help quite a bit. 2) Errors. Random errors seem to occur for no particular reason. Listed are some of the ones I have seen lately: - Ensure that your antenna is plugged in (restarted the AirTV and it was detected again) - Your hard drive has been ejected (restarted the AirTV and it was detected again) - Lost connection to the internet, please check your modem (restarted the AirTV and it was connected again, though i’m not sure how it lost connection to a hardwired cable) - AirTV is already in use (restarted and it was good to go, this one was even stranger given that it was 10 AM, everyone in the house was still asleep and nothing was even being recorded) I never used to have to unplug and reconnect my Xfinity box when I was paying Comcast for TV. However, it seems like if I don’t regularly restart my AirTV it spits back all sorts of strange errors like the ones above. Even when I do restart the box daily, I still sometimes need to restart it again. 3) No AirTV integration to the Windows 10 Sling app or the Sling browser. Basically, you currently do not get OTA (Over The Air) channels on a computer. 4) If you try to connect multiple antennas with a combiner it only seems to pick up from 1 antenna or another. I couldn't for the life of me get it to detect channels from multiple directions using multiple antennas. That being said I currently stick with 1 antenna. –Disclaimer: All of the feedback above is provided with experience using the Sling Roku app, iOS Sling app, Windows 10 Sling app and the Sling website on Google Chrome–
Posted by Shadow
