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- How does DVR work with Sling TV?All new and existing Sling subscribers (that do not currently have DVR Plus) receive 50 hours of free DVR storage. DVR Plus can be added for $5/mon...
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By Alice Marshall
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Jen Karner
last updated 24 January 2024
Beam live TV into your home without being locked-in to cable
With a multitude of news, entertainment, and sports channels available to stream, there's plenty to entertain everyone with Sling TV's 45+ live TV channels and 80,000+ TV shows and movies.
While streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are fantastic, there's an element missing in streaming services that doesn't fill the void of more traditional cable packages. With a Sling TV subscription, you get the best of both, all in an affordable monthly package, claiming to save you $945 dollars a year versus the average cable provider.
The Sling TV channels you can get are split into two packages: Sling Blue and Sling Orange.
•Blue plan: news and entertainment channels
•Orange plan: sports and family channels
No matter which plan you opt for, you'll get 50 hours free of DVR storage, allowing you to record live TV that you may have otherwise had to miss when it's on. Better still, you can pay from $5 a month in addition for up to 200 hours worth of storage.
Sling TV offers two plans to choose from, Sling TV Orange has 6 exclusive channels including ESPN and Disney Channel. This includes NFL coverage, NBA games, along with both College Basketball and Football.
Alternatively, Sling TV Blue will get you 14 exclusive channels, delivering channels focusing on entertainment and drama. With FX, you can catch American Horror Story, as well as Sons of Anarchy. Also included are the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic, delivering all the documentaries you crave.
Along with the exclusive channels, Sling TV includes 25 additional channels with all of their packages. These include AMC TV so you can catch up on The Walking Dead universe, and BBC America with Orphan Black, and Killing Eve.
Sling TV also offers up a robust number of premium add-ons that allow you to personalize the channels you have access to. These include options for MGM+, Showtime, and other premium channels. There are even options to add even more sports channels, or packages just for kids entertainment.
In comparison to US cable providers, Sling TV is uber cheap. Whether you opt for the Blue or Orange plan, the Sling TV price remains the same, though of course what you get from each will be different.
With Sling TV Blue you can have up to three simultaneous streams, with a bunch of news and entertainment channels from $40 a month. These channels include Fox News, FX, NBC, TLC, NFL Network and more. For regions that get ABC over the air, the price increases to $45 a month.
Sling TV Orange also costs $40 a month, while only allowing you to stream on one device at a time, with predominantly sports and family channels, including ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, and the Disney Channel.
If you want Sling TV Blue and Orange, you can save 31% when signing up to both, with plenty of other Sling TV promo codes and deals available, too.
Much like other streaming services, at one time or another Sling TV offered a free trial. Unlike those aforementioned services, though, Sling is known to reintroduce and change up its introductory offer.
The Sling TV free trial, in the past, gave you 7 days to enjoy either of its plans before handing over your cash, allowing you to see if the service and its library of content was for you. More recently, you could benefit from a 3-day free trial.
In March the free trial disappeared. Currently, though, new customers able to get 50% off their first month, reducing singular plans from $40 a month to $20, and both Orange and Blue combined to $27.50 from $55.
Sling TV also offers its Sling Free service, which gives you access to a selection of both free on-demand and live TV to watch through your device.
Follow our step-by-step guide to sign up for Sling TV.
•Visit the Sling TV website
•Click on the orange 'Try Us Today' button
•Enter your email address and a secure password
•Choose between Sling Orange, Sling Blue, or both
•Scroll down and you can select any add-ons called 'Extras'
As well as watching Sling TV on your Windows and Mac desktop, and on the Chrome browser, you can also get the Sling TV app on iOS and Android. Sling TV is also available on Apple TV and Chromecast, Tivo devices, Google Tv, and Sling TV on Roku and Sling TV on Fire Stick media streaming devices. Want to watch on your gaming console? You can access y...
As Sling TV is only available for those in the US and Puerto Rico, this means all of its content is geo-locked and you'll be unable to load the website or the app when outside of the country.
If you happen to be abroad and want to watch something on Sling TV, though, all is not lost. With a VPN, you can bypass geo-restrictions. Simply hop onto a server within the US, which will then change your device's IP address and unblock Sling TV and other streaming service platforms to use as if you were right at home.
In terms of Sling TV's offering, its closest comparison is Hulu, which offers live broadcasting, too. For $35 a month, Sling TV's baseline Blue and Orange packages are far more affordable than the Hulu with Live TV core package, which will set you back $69.99 monthly. While Sling TV is more affordable with a potential choice of 200+ channels, Hulu certainly wins out in terms of quality and its number of networks, boasting quality TV and movies, as well as its very own Hulu Originals.
YouTube TV bags you 90 channels and a ton of coverage for sporting events, with unlimited DVR storage, allowing you to record live programming to watch back later, whereas for Sling TV you'll have to pay $5 extra a month for the privilege of 200 more hours of storage.
FuboTV starts from double the cost with its entry-level package, though it does triple the channel line-up available, also exceeding the likes of Hulu and YouTube TV, as well as Sling TV.
While Sling TV Blue and Orange separate interests between news and entertainment, and sports and family content, FuboTV's Starter plan engulfs a little bit of everything, including Logo, MTV, Fox, BBC World News, as a part of its 110 channel package.
In terms of live TV, the comparisons stop there. Still, when we look at top dogs in the streaming wars like Netflix, it is thought by Sling TV that these can work in tandem. Sling TV gives you that live broadcast fix without the hefty cable package price, with additional on-demand content, throwing in your favorite streaming service to a monthly outgoing that still falls way below the average cable cost.
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