Sling, the right mix of content at a reasonable price so poorly executed a free Roku isn't worth a month.

Every now and then I decided to try Sling again for things like Food Network or the Olympics.  The playback experience though, is so abysmal you have to wonder if their network broadcasting contracts require them to to tank it on purpose and drive viewers back to a cable service. Not going to happen here, I like a few shows but not enough to ever purchase a cable service ever again. Netflix and Amazon have quirks to be sure that could be better implemented like multiple watch lists, one thing that just works on both however, is playback. Sling can't finish an episode on the Windows 10 or 7 app or even the free Roku app without bugging out and randomly stopping in the middle of an episode. Things happen, 70mbps down might not be enough to keep the cache full but hey you can restart and where you left off right? No! That's okay you can at least zoom forward to where you were right? No! What Sling wants you to do is re-watch the first 1/3 of the same episode till you have it memorized then maybe it will finish the rest of the episode. Mind you the free Roku they sent to get you back has a remote with a dedicated Netflix, Sling, Hulu, Google Play button and all but Sling playback without requiring the re-watching of the first 15 minutes except Sling so it's not a faulty device. Twitch who has every kid with a toaster trying to live stream has less problems with playback than Sling. If memory service previous versions of the app would at least let you zoom back, all be it with repeated commercial pauses so you might have ended up watching twenty commercials to get back to where you were. One would think that a company owned by DishNetwork the harbinger of DVR's and the marketer of high latency networks would have a solution for Slings woes, but if they do they are keeping it to themselves. So no matter what their direct mailers offer you to come back, whatever their other banners and ad's say they offer, consider how much you like watching only the first part of your favorite episodes over and over or maybe wait till they come out with the next version. Really they may need many more versions before it actually works.