How Does Sling TV Work? Here is the Complete Information

Sling TV offers a simple way for you to watch collection of your live favorite TV shows, movies, and on-demand programming on TVs, computers, tablets or phones.

 After signing up in sling TV, you will need only to download the app to the devices on which you want to watch Sling TV programming. When you boot up the sling app, you will see all of the channels you have access to base on the plan you chose.

Do you know?

Sling TV was the first multichannel live TV service that was launched in February 2015, streamed over the internet. Nowadays, it has a lot more competition, but it’s still among the cheapest ways to cut the cable TV cord.

What does Sling TV cost?

Sling TV is available in two different flavors which are Sling Orange and Sling Blue, both of which cost $25 per month on their own. Orange used to cost $20 per month.

Currently, Orange offers 28 channels, as well as Blue, offers more than 40. However, Blue doesn’t include every Orange channel. The combined Blue/Orange pack still costs $40 per month, a 20 percent savings if you were to buy both packs.

Sling TV also offers add-on packages started from $5 per month to $15 per month. There are more than a dozen packages, so your monthly subscription cost could exceed $100 per month if you want absolutely everything.

The service is also available on Roku TVs, as well as Samsung smart TVs since 2016. Sling is also offering compatibility and support for over-the-air antennae, provided in your supported location.

Note: Sling TV is available everywhere in the United States. For the foreseeable future, it will not be available in other countries.

How does sling work

The service starts at $20 per month. There are no contracts or set-up fees, and cancelation is easy. Sling TV doesn’t require one of those awkward cable boxes sitting on top of your TV, because it streams everything from the Internet. You can use just about any device connected to the Internet to get service, including iOS and Android devices, your Xbox One, your Roku box, Chrome cast, and Windows devices. Simply download the app, sign in and you can receive Sling’s lineup of 23 channels, with an additional array of about 65 available as individual add-on packages.

Even after the price rise, Sling TV remains the cheapest way to watch Sports Center and other ESPN shows live, along with a bunch of other live channels such as CNN, AMC, History Channel, and Disney Channel. You can pay additional charges to get some more channels or add a cloud DVR, and if you care more about Fox Sports and NBC than ESPN you can subscribe to a different Sling package entirely.

Unlike other services, such as Netflix, Sling TV is live. You receive every channel as its happening, even as you would with traditional cable or satellite TV. In either case, Sling offers a package deal for children, Comedy, News, and Lifestyle packages. The four-pack costs $10 per month rather than $20 per month.

Although Sling TV may be a subsidiary of Dish Network, the satellite provider, it’s operated as an entirely separate service. You do not need a Dish subscription (or a satellite dish) to prompt Sling TV.

Always keep in mind! You will need a stable internet connection to watch content; Sling TV doesn’t support offline viewing.

How is it different from cable or satellite providers?

• It’s probably cheaper and has fewer channels.
• It requires a broadband home internet connection of at least 5.0 megabits per second (25 Mbps or higher is recommended). 
• Instead of a cable box, you will watch on a TV-connected device, like a streaming stick or box, Smart TV or game console that runs the free Sling TV app.
• You can also watch on your phone, tablet or computer, either at home or in other places.
• There are no contracts, so you can cancel or resume service anytime, with no penalty fee.
• You can only watch one single stream at a time with the Sling Orange package.

Sling TV also stream live TV channels, including YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV Now and Fubo TV, all of which start at $35 to $45 per month. They cost higher than Sling, mainly because they also carry many local broadcast channels — ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — while Sling does not. There are also a pair of services available now, namely Philo ($16 per month) and AT&T’s Watch TV ($15 per month), but they lack both local channels and sports networks like ESPN and Fox Sports.

How do add-on packages work?

Sling has unbeatable cheap pricing, although it doesn’t offer so many channels than the competition, you have more control over which ones you pay for and sometimes its plans can be confusing.

Once you’ve chosen a base package, you can tack on any number of Sling’s “Extra” packages, most of which cost $5 per month. (One exception: The “Sports Extra” package for Sling Blue costs $10 per month.) Premium channels, including HBO, Cinemax, and Starz are also available as standalone add-ons.

But here comes the tricky part: The channels in each add-on depend on the base package you’ve chosen. With Sports Extra, for example, only Sling Orange subscribers get ESPN channels, while only Sling Blue subscribers can get NBC’s Golf Channel and NFL Redzone.

How does on-demand work?

Many Sling TV channels offer a variety of movies or TV shows to watch on-demand. The availability of episodes, although, can be improper from one show to the next. You can’t rely on this feature as your only way to catch-up on a series.

As you may have noticed, Sling Blue gives you double the number of channels you would get with Sling Orange, and for the same price. So what’s the difference?

Well, first of all, you can’t get the same channels with Sling Blue as you do with Sling Orange—that’s why they’re the same price. Sling Orange offers you channels like ESPN and Disney whereas Sling Blue skips those and instead gives you options like FOX and USA.

I hope it’ll help you and you folks are now ready to enjoy your Sling!