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Short Version: Huge Disappointment and unuseable.
Longer version:
Sling plays just fine and works great.... on my Android phone w/ 5" screen. But if I want to stream it to my 51" set via the Chromecast 2.0, forget it. It will hang and skip and downshift from 720p to what looks like 240p. All other streaming content going from my phone to the TV via the Chromecast 2.0 work fine and are smooth and never hang or downshift resolutions... YouTube, Netflix, and direct screen casting from the phone or laptop.
What's strange is the issue happened for awhile then went away after a simultaneous update of the SlingTV app and the Chromecast auto-updating it's firmware, but then after another update of the SlingTV app the stuttering, freezes, and downshifts are back and with a vengeance.
I give SlingTV a really big thumbs down.
http://downdetector.com/status/sling/news/147035-problems-at-sling
http://gizmodo.com/slingtv-is-so-bad-it-forced-me-back-to-cable-1786029642
Longer version:
Sling plays just fine and works great.... on my Android phone w/ 5" screen. But if I want to stream it to my 51" set via the Chromecast 2.0, forget it. It will hang and skip and downshift from 720p to what looks like 240p. All other streaming content going from my phone to the TV via the Chromecast 2.0 work fine and are smooth and never hang or downshift resolutions... YouTube, Netflix, and direct screen casting from the phone or laptop.
What's strange is the issue happened for awhile then went away after a simultaneous update of the SlingTV app and the Chromecast auto-updating it's firmware, but then after another update of the SlingTV app the stuttering, freezes, and downshifts are back and with a vengeance.
I give SlingTV a really big thumbs down.
http://downdetector.com/status/sling/news/147035-problems-at-sling
http://gizmodo.com/slingtv-is-so-bad-it-forced-me-back-to-cable-1786029642