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Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:25 pm

Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:32 pm

Mr Moo Cow wrote:Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?


Get one, you'll save a fortune. Though i recommend this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ULTRA-HD-JAILBR ... words=xbmc

But seeing as I'm a jack, I wouldnt expect you to take my word for it.

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:50 pm

64JACK wrote:
Mr Moo Cow wrote:Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?


Get one, you'll save a fortune. Though i recommend this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ULTRA-HD-JAILBR ... words=xbmc

But seeing as I'm a jack, I wouldnt expect you to take my word for it.

Can you stream any sports channels with that mate? I'm looking into getting one, can't afford to pay for sky sports and movies!

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:57 pm

I just needed to know picture quality was like and can I access what I get from Sky at the moment

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:18 pm

CalShepCCFC wrote:
64JACK wrote:
Mr Moo Cow wrote:Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?


Get one, you'll save a fortune. Though i recommend this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ULTRA-HD-JAILBR ... words=xbmc

But seeing as I'm a jack, I wouldnt expect you to take my word for it.

Can you stream any sports channels with that mate? I'm looking into getting one, can't afford to pay for sky sports and movies!


Yep. I get all sky channels. Bt sport, and sports channels from all over the world. Plus you get your live streams of course. I'll never subscribe to sky again. :thumbright:

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:20 pm

Mr Moo Cow wrote:I just needed to know picture quality was like and can I access what I get from Sky at the moment


Yes, you can. picture quality isnt as good admittedly, but much better than paying for it! :thumbright:

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:22 pm

64JACK wrote:
CalShepCCFC wrote:
64JACK wrote:
Mr Moo Cow wrote:Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?


Get one, you'll save a fortune. Though i recommend this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ULTRA-HD-JAILBR ... words=xbmc

But seeing as I'm a jack, I wouldnt expect you to take my word for it.

Can you stream any sports channels with that mate? I'm looking into getting one, can't afford to pay for sky sports and movies!


Yep. I get all sky channels. Bt sport, and sports channels from all over the world. Plus you get your live streams of course. I'll never subscribe to sky again. :thumbright:

Sounds good, Sky is so overpriced these days!

Complicated to set up or is it easy?

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:30 pm

CalShepCCFC wrote:
64JACK wrote:
CalShepCCFC wrote:
64JACK wrote:
Mr Moo Cow wrote:Sky prices going up all the time - I'm looking at one of these

http://www.retailgadgets.co.uk/StealthX ... V-Box.html

Any comments on performance ?


Get one, you'll save a fortune. Though i recommend this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ULTRA-HD-JAILBR ... words=xbmc

But seeing as I'm a jack, I wouldnt expect you to take my word for it.

Can you stream any sports channels with that mate? I'm looking into getting one, can't afford to pay for sky sports and movies!


Yep. I get all sky channels. Bt sport, and sports channels from all over the world. Plus you get your live streams of course. I'll never subscribe to sky again. :thumbright:

Sounds good, Sky is so overpriced these days!

Complicated to set up or is it easy?


Simple too set up, the only thing is navigating out of the mainstream apps. But it's great when you find new stuff! So it really is worth playing about with. My sky bill used to be £112 a month, now I pay £36 and thats with two boxes!

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:10 pm

64JACK wrote:
Mr Moo Cow wrote:I just needed to know picture quality was like and can I access what I get from Sky at the moment


Yes, you can. picture quality isnt as good admittedly, but much better than paying for it! :thumbright:


I've had my android box for a while and have played around with multiple set-ups, mainly for the football as movies/TV are fine via XBMC and also NaviX. The best option for football is to install Torrent Stream Controller, Acestream Engine & MX Player (you'll find links on the Wiziwig forum) and its simple to do. Then for a game, open your browser and goto Wiziwig, select the highest Acestream bitrate source on Wiziwig and then the other apps boot automatically. You then get a prompt for which player you want to use, select MX Player and that's it. You get the occasional lag but its fine and the quality is probably he best out there. As a fall back, Torrent Stream Controller also has hundreds of channel already assigned, including Sky/BT Sport/Bien etc but the quality isn't as good as the easy set-up described above. And the same will work on any Android device, not just dedicated media boxes. Also come across an app called MobDro which is also good to have as a sports fallback, as the sport channels are on there too.

Re: Anyone got an Android TV box ?

Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:27 pm

Also found sportsdevil good on xbmc links you too all the websites such as wiziwig and from there will link you with lots of streams

Watched the fulham as i couldnt make it gave you will have times where the stream stops to catch up but quality is usually good (remember your not paying so quality wont always be the best) always films very good for quality.

Also make sure your internet is good enough to cope as you dont want the streams lagging

Another option is download xbmc to your pc and can stream through your tv usually using cables (need any help pm ill try my best to help haha!)