With the Sling Adapter now selling for $30, it looked like an inexpensive addition to my 722 so I signed up for the Sling Adapter Test drive online yesterday. Not a lot of details available on it. Anyway, I wanted to see the relative picture quality on my new iPad. My connection here at work is only 3 MB so relatively slow and the only shows I could find to stream were TV shows. All of the HD movies had locks on them that indicated I needed to upgrade to view them and no filter setting to get to only subscribed movies. This is where I got a bit confused since I don't have a sling adapter I assumed the Adapter was one at Dish and should have had a lot of material available for a short 24 hr evaluation. Anyway, I found a CSI show that was listed as HD to evaluate. The picture quality was very poor and blocky regardless of whether I chose HQ or SQ, most likely do to my download speed here at work. So I figured I'll try it at home where my connection is a 12 MB connection and easily streams HD movies. However at home it gave me messages to reset my receiver. Hmmmm... didn't think I was streaming from my receiver since I don't have a Sling Adapter. Bottom line was the Test Drive is only good for 24 hours and I couldn't get it to work to any degree that was satisfactory.
In our business we have a saying, " A bad Demo is worse than no Demo at all." I don't know whether the problem was mine or Dish's but the in the end the Demo failed and I have run out of my 24 hr evaluation period.
In our business we have a saying, " A bad Demo is worse than no Demo at all." I don't know whether the problem was mine or Dish's but the in the end the Demo failed and I have run out of my 24 hr evaluation period.
