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rok tv VS Slingbox

Compare rok tv VS Slingbox and see what are their differences

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ROK TV lets you watch live UK television on your mobile.

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Slingbox is a TV Steaming device that encodes local video for transmission over the internet to the remote device.
  • rok tv Landing page
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    2021-09-28
  • Slingbox Landing page
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    2023-01-21

rok tv videos

FANS CAME AFTER MARY NJOKU (ROK TV CEO) FOR BEING TOO NATURAL WITHOUT "MAKE UP".

Slingbox videos

Slingbox is being discontinued.....

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to rok tv and Slingbox)
Video
43 43%
57% 57
Entertainment
44 44%
56% 56
Watch Movies Online
28 28%
72% 72
Hack Game
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.

rok tv mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of rok tv yet. Tracking of rok tv 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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What are some alternatives?

When comparing rok tv and Slingbox, you can also consider the following products

TVCatchup - TVCatchup is an Internet television service for viewing free-to-air UK channels.

TVPlayer - Watch Live TV Online For Free

Mobdro Plus - Mobdro is a free streaming service available on most popular platforms. Modbro The application allows users to choose among channels of various genres and streaming channels without charge.

NOW TV - NOW TV is an internet television service.

MythTV - MythTV is a Free Open Source digital video recorder project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Watch All Channels - The main UK Freeview channels available to watch online without registration or popups.