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NEXTD VS Slingbox

Compare NEXTD VS Slingbox and see what are their differences

NEXTD logo NEXTD

Smart TV player enabling 1 million+ apps on TV

Slingbox logo Slingbox

Slingbox is a TV Steaming device that encodes local video for transmission over the internet to the remote device.
  • NEXTD Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-05-01
  • Slingbox Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-01-21

NEXTD videos

Cut the Cord! NextD Best Android 4K TV Box Running Android 7.01

Slingbox videos

Slingbox is being discontinued.....

More videos:

  • Review - SlingBox 350 Media Streamer Review
  • Review - Slingbox 500 Review (Live TV Everywhere)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to NEXTD and Slingbox)
Watch Movies Online
47 47%
53% 53
Video
32 32%
68% 68
Entertainment
44 44%
56% 56
Video & Movies
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Slingbox seems to be more popular. 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.

NEXTD mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of NEXTD yet. Tracking of NEXTD recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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
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