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A Detailed Look at Sling TV for Cord Cutters by a Cord Cutter
Posted: Mar 31, 2019
Every since its launch, Dish Network’s Sling TV has been promulgated as the revolutionary cord cutter for our television sets. The internet-based television service allows telivisions to work without any cables going through every corner of your house.
It was first introduced in January 2015 and a beta service was offered a month later in February. Not to mention, within a year, Sling TV had managed to add several new channels and on-demand videos to their service.
Despite its cheap and cord cutting service, Sling TV was slow to take off. It was only after the service packages were reorganised in Orange, Blue and Orange + Blue, that the service managed to make their mark in the market.
Now, Sling TV has become a television sensation with millions of users across the United States. Not only are telivision users migrating towards Sling TV, so are users who prefer watching their programs on their laptops, tablets or smartphones.
Sling TV subscription
Subscribling to Sling TV is a simple online process. All you need to do is go to the Sling TV official website, sign up, choose a channel plan and start your 7-days free trial. Once you complete the trial period, you can choose to end or continue the service by making the payment for your plan.
You can log into your account anytime you want, make adjustents, add channels, update email id, change channel plans etc. You can use your Sling TV on your television, smartphone, laptop, tablet or media-streaming device like Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Google Chromecast.
Sling TV Plans
Sling TV has a wide variety when it comes to choices in Sling TV channel packages. There are three distinct user-specific channel plans. You can choose any one of these plans, there is Sling Orange, Sling Blue and Sling Orange + Blue, which includes channels from both the other plans.
Sling Orange costs $20 for over 40 channels including some entertainment, sports, lifestyle and news channels. The Orange plan also has a solid line for sports-lovers with channels like ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3.
Sling Blue costs $25 and also has over 40 channels inclusing National Geographic Channel, FX, BET, the NFL Network and the FOX Sports channels (FS1, FS2) among others. Although you do lost your sports channel line of ESPN.
Sling Orange + Blue however, is a hybrid package, which includes channels from both the services and costs $40. This includes sports, comedy, movies, news, lifestyle, kids programming as well as music channels. There are some common problems that the majority of Fire Stick users generally fights with Fire Stick not connecting to WiFi
The author has been writing about Amazon fire stick support and about various ways of obtaining the solution of issues since several years.