Mike I.

Channel Master is a great concept but only if you have 1-2 hours each day to troubleshoot the myriad of problems that will most assuredly arise. Im done with this surplus, East German Army commo equipment. Only decision from this point is whether we sell it on E-bay to another sucker or simply take it to the rifle range and demo it.

1. Initial set-up requires a super-nerd & then its still a crapshoot. Buddy of mine who works fulltime in IT/AV spent 3-4 hours trying to set it up. One word of advice is that your wifi network CANNOT have any special characters in it; alphanumeric only. Youd think someone at Channel Master that had an IQ above room temp would notify users about this glaring security/set-up issue.
2. Basic antenna TV works about 50% of the time after install. Be prepared for almost hourly reboots.
3. Spent a lovely afternoon on the phone with arrogant and dismissive Channel Master tech support reps after Sling TV would quit about every minute. Rep ridiculed me for calling and asked dont you check our website for service updates? Were working on it.
4. Now that Sling TV works (some of the time) about 50% of the time, the internet channels have disappeared and Channel Master no longer recognizes our wifi.
5. When you turn on Channel Master youll get an empty blue screen about 75% of the time.