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By *ire_blade OP   Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Any recommendations?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have a firestick with kodi installed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fire HD boxes are good

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Nvidia Shield.

Use mine for Kodi and old game emulators

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Iv got an android box and it works ok

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We've got both Android and Firestick with Kodi, Firestick is much quicker.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Let me expand on that,i have a m8s kodi box from amazon,if you get one make sure its fully loaded,it will specify if its loaded or not

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

popping in here to keep an eye - son got me a secod hand tv for my spare room - no aerial but can play laptop through it which is fine for watching stuff on my external hard drive etc - he also bought an android box so that i can watch tv - it failed - just didnt pick up the internet signal enough so sent it back - i know there are things you can buy but dont want a monthly fee thing

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By *ork norriesCouple
over a year ago

Cork

Q box...

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By *inkyChrissy99TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Raspberry pi with kodi full operating system- works very well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've recently bought a box, seems to work fine for movies, in fact great for movies..

I've not really experimented with other features as it's quite complicated..

I bought an extra double sided remote: that I would really recommend as it makes life a lot easier... qwerty keyboard on 1 side, other features on the other.. A must buy IMO.

Harry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can get android tv's now and plonk it on there too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kodi fire stick - bloody thing is fantastic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have an android box which is really slow and sluggish, I've just put kodi on my fire tv box and it great. Much faster than the android box.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field


"I have an android box which is really slow and sluggish, I've just put kodi on my fire tv box and it great. Much faster than the android box. "

If you bought a cheap Kodi box, its probably a dual core, with a smaller amount of memory. For best performance you need a quad core unit (preferably wired into your router to minimise wifi isuues and bottle necks from all your other wifi stuff)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nvida sheild is currently the best (plus 4k support) but theres a new model comming out aoon so that should mean a price drop.

Plus the other features like gamestreaming etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"popping in here to keep an eye - son got me a secod hand tv for my spare room - no aerial but can play laptop through it which is fine for watching stuff on my external hard drive etc - he also bought an android box so that i can watch tv - it failed - just didnt pick up the internet signal enough so sent it back - i know there are things you can buy but dont want a monthly fee thing "

Chrome cast?

Stream from the tablet/phone/laptop

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Got an Amazon stick but also looking into a Mag250 for the sports. Will have a look at the Nvida too.

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By *GLuke86Man
over a year ago

Hampshire


"We have a firestick with kodi installed "

Ditto

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Got an Amazon stick but also looking into a Mag250 for the sports. Will have a look at the Nvida too."

What is nvida?

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford


"Got an Amazon stick but also looking into a Mag250 for the sports. Will have a look at the Nvida too.

What is nvida?"

It's the Nvidia Shield.

Mine has...

Kodi and SPMC, both using Retromania.

RetroboxTV for my retro games.

Plex, for streaming stuff I legally own

Steam's Gamelink will be added in an update.

If you own a PC with a compatible Nvidia graphics card, you can stream games as well.

Another update will add Google Assistant that you can talk to hands free using the games controller.... Or buy the Spot.

It is hands down, the best streaming box out there.

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By *irkby coupleCouple
over a year ago

Kirkby

We have an old mx 2 box, works fine.

We also have a fire stick, only got it because they was on offer at half price.

Do a google search and you will find the details to install it all yourself.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"popping in here to keep an eye - son got me a secod hand tv for my spare room - no aerial but can play laptop through it which is fine for watching stuff on my external hard drive etc - he also bought an android box so that i can watch tv - it failed - just didnt pick up the internet signal enough so sent it back - i know there are things you can buy but dont want a monthly fee thing "

Buy a WiFi range extender around £25 then get a android box off ebay around £25 UK seller and only £17.50 from China but it will take a few weeks to arrive on the latter option.....then you are sorted with all the latest box sets...movies and sport you can eat with no monthly costs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"popping in here to keep an eye - son got me a secod hand tv for my spare room - no aerial but can play laptop through it which is fine for watching stuff on my external hard drive etc - he also bought an android box so that i can watch tv - it failed - just didnt pick up the internet signal enough so sent it back - i know there are things you can buy but dont want a monthly fee thing

Buy a WiFi range extender around £25 then get a android box off ebay around £25 UK seller and only £17.50 from China but it will take a few weeks to arrive on the latter option.....then you are sorted with all the latest box sets...movies and sport you can eat with no monthly costs."

thas what he bought - an android box - not the wifi extender though - will look at that - thanks x

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By *BA123Man
over a year ago

DUDLEY

I av xmbc box everything I need on there - its just knowing the sites and adding them to kodi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a YouView box

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

M8 from the bay then toptutorials from yoootoob ...

xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"popping in here to keep an eye - son got me a secod hand tv for my spare room - no aerial but can play laptop through it which is fine for watching stuff on my external hard drive etc - he also bought an android box so that i can watch tv - it failed - just didnt pick up the internet signal enough so sent it back - i know there are things you can buy but dont want a monthly fee thing

Buy a WiFi range extender around £25 then get a android box off ebay around £25 UK seller and only £17.50 from China but it will take a few weeks to arrive on the latter option.....then you are sorted with all the latest box sets...movies and sport you can eat with no monthly costs.

thas what he bought - an android box - not the wifi extender though - will look at that - thanks x"

Make sure you get a powerline extender whereby it runs with a transmitter from your router to a receiver hotshot plug close to where your putting the box....BT ones are good and around £25 is x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fine for movies, tv shows etc.

But i find mine very stuttery when watching live sports

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford


"Fine for movies, tv shows etc.

But i find mine very stuttery when watching live sports"

I use SPMC, Kodi's lesser known cousin, as there's issues with Kodi 17 and streaming. With, again, the Retromania build and SmashIPTV, and have zero issues.

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

MK

bought a android box cheap from china bought didnt have a lot of use, finally bought a sony android tv, much better. all in one then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Fine for movies, tv shows etc.

But i find mine very stuttery when watching live sports

I use SPMC, Kodi's lesser known cousin, as there's issues with Kodi 17 and streaming. With, again, the Retromania build and SmashIPTV, and have zero issues.

"

Nice one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Fine for movies, tv shows etc.

But i find mine very stuttery when watching live sports"

On the live sports on kodi....you will always get some good links and some bad ones....there is no guaranteed links but I vary from sports devil and zem tv

The latter you will find mama HD which is good when it has a link.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive found that there's a direct correlation between the amount of ways of watching media increasing and the amount of media worth watching decreasing!.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ok so kind of related - anybody use an indoor aerial - im playing with ideas as im happy to watch on my lappy but son gave me this other tv for the snug room ive done out and just looking at ways to use it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ok so kind of related - anybody use an indoor aerial - im playing with ideas as im happy to watch on my lappy but son gave me this other tv for the snug room ive done out and just looking at ways to use it"

It you have a good signal the pound shop....if not a one for all booster aerial but keep your receipt to take it back if it does not work x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ok so kind of related - anybody use an indoor aerial - im playing with ideas as im happy to watch on my lappy but son gave me this other tv for the snug room ive done out and just looking at ways to use it"

whack a chrome cast in it and fuck off the ariel?

asuming your not an iphone user and so crippled by apples walled garden.

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