BBC iPlayer VS Slingbox

BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is a free service that lets you catch up with radio and television programmes from the...

Slingbox

Slingbox is a TV Steaming device that encodes local video for transmission over the internet to the remote device.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to BBC iPlayer and Slingbox)

Slingbox

Watch Movies Online

83 83%

Watch Movies Online

17% 17

Video

0 0%

Video

100% 100

Video & Movies

100 100%

Video & Movies

0% 0

Entertainment

73 73%

Entertainment

27% 27

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Reviews

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BBC iPlayer Reviews

25 Best LiveTV Alternatives Free Sports Streaming Sites

BBC iPlayer is a well-known best LiveTV alternatives in the United Kingdom that offers a diverse material selection. However, as exists the case with many other platforms today, the site is exclusively open to residents of the United Kingdom. As a result, you must obtain a UK IP address to access this site from your region.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Slingbox should be more popular than BBC iPlayer. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

BBC iPlayer mentions (1)

when setting iPlayer in full-screen the screen goes darker
I use the latest version of LibreWolf on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and I seem to have noticed that if and when I set a video on bbc.co.uk/iplayer in Full Screen, the image goes darker deliberately. If I was to watch it in windowed-mode obvieously the video appears much brighter. Source: almost 2 years ago

Slingbox mentions (6)

block 70.42.244.140 port 5678 on your routers asap
Have been digging a little more in the little time I have spare at the moment - Seems DNS blacklists/redirect are not fully successfull. Even though I have redirected the domains sling.com, slingbox.com and slingmedia.com to a local "HoneyPod" on my lan it still appears that the slingbox is trying to talk to 67.148.153.136 and 67.148.153.250 on the internet which it can not get to since I shutdown all internet... Source: over 1 year ago
block 70.42.244.140 port 5678 on your routers asap
I just blacklisted slingmedia.com and slingbox.com in my DNS so the boxes can not resolve it but that is pretty bad behavior for a company to do that! Source: over 1 year ago
Audio/Video Un-syncing
This has become a little worse with the Slinger server, but I think this is an issue with the Slingbox itself as I see the issue with their application. But I see a lot of cases where the audio gets ahead of the video. Have others seen it? Or does anyone have solutions? One of the solutions on slingbox.com is to factory reset the box. Source: over 1 year ago
HARD RESET AFTER 11/9
Also, after my first apparently failed attempt at trying a factory reset with no access to sling what I did was put the slingbox and a PC behind a cheapy old router I had so I could just unplug the uplink cable to make sure nothing was leaking up to the internet. Just concerned about what your router is doing when blocking "slingbox.com" does it just do a DNS lookup and block that IP? In my packet capture there's... Source: over 1 year ago
HARD RESET AFTER 11/9
It appears that the automatic update comes from some path on sling.com because blocking slingbox.com alone still allowed a firmware update. Source: over 1 year ago