Television Reception Arrangements for Korea

1. Find a friend or relative who is willing to let you  connect the slingbox to their regular cable line and their broadband internet connection.
2. The best place to buy a slingbox is at Best Buy. It costs less than $200.00. If you're already in South Korea, Best Buy will allow you to purchase the slingbox over the internet with your credit card and will ship it to any address in Canada or the U.S. Here is the link for Canada: Best Buy.
3. If your friend or relative doesn't have a router that allows you to plug more than one computer into one internet connection, you will have to buy a router for the slingbox. Thee are also available at Best Buy. Here is an example of a reasonably priced router.
4.  Once your friend has the slingbox, he or she will hook up the cable to the coaxial input on the back of the slingbox. They will also hook the slingbox up to their internet connection via the router. Their computer will also have to be hooked up to the internet via the same router.
5. Your friend will have to put the software that comes with the slingbox on their computer and will have to set administrative passwords and other things during this set-up. However, your friend will not need to have her/his computer on for you to use the slingbox after the initial set-up.
6. You will download a free program called Sling Player off of Sling Media's website onto your computer that will allow you to view the video from your slingbox.
7.  Once you have Sling Player on your computer and your friend has set up everything on her/his end, you will have to enter the unique finder code that your friend acquired while they were setting up your slingbox. Once you type in the code you will be able to view video on your computer from your slingbox.
8. If you would like to view the video on your TV instead of your computer, you can do so by purchasing the proper cords. (For example, if your laptop has an S-Video output you can hook it up to the RCA-style video input on your television. If you also have a standard stereo headphone jack on your laptop for audio, you can hook that up to the RCA-style plugs on your television.) Since Sling Player will allow you to fill the entire screen of your computer with the video, it will also fill the entire screen of your TV. The quality of the video is comparable to a Super Long Play recording on a VHS tape and the audio is excellent. Some computers will not send the video to your TV without hitting a couple of buttons first, so you should read your manual on how to send video to another monitor.
9. Some additional notes:
   a. The slingbox will work with things like Bell Express-Vu or digital cable. However, keep in mind that if that is the case you will have to watch what your friend is watching at the time. It is better to find someone who has a regular cable line in their home. (For example, if your friend has digital cable, but also has a regular cable line in another room that is not attached to the digital cable box, he/she can use that line to attach to the slingbox. He/She can split that line with a cable splitter (so as to still have cable going to the TV in that room) and plug that into the slingbox. If you attach a regular cable line to the slingbox, you will be able to change the channels at your will from South Korea and it will not matter what your friend is watching at that time.
   b. It will power down back home when you are not using it.
   c. It will not affect your friend’s Internet speed noticeably.
   d. The big drawback to the slingbox is that all the evening prime time television in North America is on in the morning South Korea time. The only solution to that is to hook the video from your computer up to your VCR and record the programs if you don't want to watch them in the morning.