Android TV Boxes - Info and Legality?

zarf2007

glentoran99 wrote: »

Why avoid the firestick? I find it perfect

The fire tv box is more powerful than the stick and is future proof (supports 4k).

pappa_golf

is there a lot of content on kodi , that is 4K?

zarf2007

pappa_golf wrote: »

so do I , but why interrupt the flow
, I could mention that a simple ITX motherboard with a AMD radion thing (5350?), total cost about £60 will fly past any android/apple thing with a copy of openelec on it


or buy an intel NUC 513 with a M.2 card , 8g memory , and a xbox remote , and sit back

can also stream amazon tv/Netflix with the fire tv so good allrounder

zarf2007

pappa_golf wrote: »

is there a lot of content on kodi , that is 4K?

Nope but amazon tv/netflix has a growing amount.

pappa_golf

yup , but we are talking of a "vehicle" to load kodi on , NOT a retail box that you pay a subscription to watch.


yes the fire tv IS better , but with a price of 39 v 79 , the basic stick , set up correctly runs kodi as good as a lot of imported "boxes" with crap remotes and flaky copies of xbmc that sell on ebay for a lot more


its not hard to set a stick up , so as a starter I suggest this , unless you want to sign up to prime/Netflix as well ,

debitcardmayhem

zarf2007 wrote: »

The fire tv box is more powerful than the stick and is future proof (supports 4k).

Your future proof statement is already out of date

pappa_golf wrote: »

yup , but we are talking of a "vehicle" to load kodi on , NOT a retail box that you pay a subscription to watch.


yes the fire tv IS better , but with a price of 39 v 79 , the basic stick , set up correctly runs kodi as good as a lot of imported "boxes" with crap remotes and flaky copies of xbmc that sell on ebay for a lot more


its not hard to set a stick up , so as a starter I suggest this , unless you want to sign up to prime/Netflix as well ,

Oh and Fire TV is 64.99 at the mo and since you can sideload kodi the subscription bit is not true either

zarf2007

pappa_golf wrote: »

yup , but we are talking of a "vehicle" to load kodi on , NOT a retail box that you pay a subscription to watch.


yes the fire tv IS better , but with a price of 39 v 79 , the basic stick , set up correctly runs kodi as good as a lot of imported "boxes" with crap remotes and flaky copies of xbmc that sell on ebay for a lot more


its not hard to set a stick up , so as a starter I suggest this , unless you want to sign up to prime/Netflix as well ,

Yes but the fire stick is WiFi only whitch makes it pants for streaming if you have thick walls/weak signal. The fire tv box is a good streaming allrounder for kodi and legit streaming services such as amazon/netflix for a small additional subscription.

pappa_golf

in that case I suggest the intel NUC 513 ,

zarf2007

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Your future proof statement is already out of date


Oh and Fire TV is 64.99 at the mo and since you can sideload kodi the subscription bit is not true either

Yes as HDR is not supported and 4k/30hz is the streaming rate I admit it's not 100% but as the two main streaming services use that spec it's the best you will get for the price.

zarf2007

pappa_golf wrote: »

in that case I suggest the intel NUC 513 ,

Again you won't get the price/capabilities compared to the fire tv box, what are u not getting?