LVG OUT

Come on Amazon

​RIP Rockcrusher

£79.95 as of 10.33- 6th March

Did anyone get to sideload sky go on this? Does it work? Can you watch the footy in HD?

I hate john lewis but got to give it them with a genuine better warranty than amazon. (Purchased)
P.s. Price match policy still a fraudulent statement.

Same price as amazon

I've got £40 gift card balance so £24 real cash!!!!!

The girlfriends just bought the fire stick and I was considering one of these to replace the rather lacklustre smart features on my Sharp TV. Does anyone know if these boxes suffer from the audio sync issues the stick suffers from? The Sticks we've tried both have the same issue where where the audio on the likes of YouTube and iPlayer goes out of sync if paused or at random.

​Back on offer at Currys LOL; will wait to see what JL do at 5pm :wink:

​Back on offer at Currys LOL; will see what JL do at 5pm today.

What are you talkin about this is still £64 @ JL
Have some more heat !

£79 again :disappointed:

got mine today sold my shield as it was overkill for me, put firestarter on and loaded kodi through es file explorer no need for messing about with using a pc then ,will play again this evening

Got mine yesterday, free delivery was actually next day!

I bought this for my mum and it has its pros and cons. as expected BBC ipayer and the like are on there for free. I have a Netflix account and using "unblock us" I've used a dns that makes it show US shows too. I also have amazon prime which allows amazon videos to play for free....sort of. it boots up into prime video by default and the voice search only works with that. There's no way to stop it from displaying content that you have to buy. The only workaround I found was to set parental control up which also blocks purchases and access to various settings. In the end I decided to advise against using prime video and stick to Netflix.

I installed Kodi with a Genesis and Showbox add on using the App2Firetv app for the most part. Both have way too many menus to click through for someone older to be able to get to grips with easily. I've used Firestarter to make Kodi load when you press Home twice but the amount of menus you have to toggle through only to find a list of video sources (many of which don't work) isn't very user friendly unless you were born around 1980+. I considered the Spartan Build which cleans up the user interface but it barely reduces the clutter by one or two clicks. Plus it shows adult channels on the main menu which isn't very nice when you're handing the remote to your mum.

In the end I said to stick to Netflix for ease of use and reliability. It's a shame really but it's still a decent box for the price.

Ok so I rang Amazon and complained for the second time and told them it made more sense for them to give me a £15 voucher for the price difference than return the item. They agreed ! Result ! Shang alang a do wop ! Happy Xmas Op !

LVG OUT

I ordered in the end from very with a £30 off £60 code I had so £49.99 del

KODI is Free and it's great. Such a pity it's a pig to Root my Fire TV 2. But it still works sideloaded, and links to my Onedrive to play files. Even been watching vintage TV.

I have set it up, that if I choose the Wired connection, it is set to us a different DNS so I can watch US Netflix.

Great to watch the old Twilight Zone, StarTrek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Not to mention a better choice of films.

Expired

Up to £79 same as Tesco

Is kodi free?

Hi I'm new to all this fire tv. If your not a prime member what can u use on the stick or box? Is bbc I player free to use? I don't want to subscribe to loads of different things but the fire to makes out like u pay one off charge to buy the box but it's never that simple just like the now to box isn't simple

You'll love it, although it isn't dedicated to PPV events, the recent boxing was near pristine SD without any buffering.

anyone know if the remote works without line of sight , need to stick box behind tv

Remote is RF so Does not need mine if site.

just tried live chat with amazon they would not price match. do i buy from JL or wait until the price drops...

Ordered this, to replace my (not so) good chromecast.

nice find OP

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how-to-install-njm-soccer-kodi-xbmc/

http://tutorial-iptv-xbmc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/njm-soccer-add-on-for-kodi-xbmc.html

Never heard of that plugin until now.

I think its more down to the TV I'm using it with than the stick, they don't seem to play very well with each other. With my sharp 60le651k all video content has lip sync issues regardless of settings on either device but with our Samsung ue65h8000 its perfect. Shame really, excellent little stick for £25

I called amazon and they refused to price match or give me a voucher for the £15 .99 difference

People always talk about adding kodi and that's all you'll ever need. But can you watch sky sports HD channels in same quality as normal sky sports hd? My experience is 'no' as I can only get sd and the quality isn't great. Please correct me if I'm wrong and tell me how I can get it in hd quality.

How did you do that?

Think that's got more to do with the stream or BB you have

My stick sometimes randomly locks up so kodi needs to be restarted. I'm assuming this is because it only have 1gb rather than 2gb

Also does get hot as well

Does the fire tv stutter like the fire tv stick? I have the stick and every so often the video randomly stutters on kodi.

Okay will do I have the fire stick but find it does lock up now and again so looking to upgrade to the box

Hope Amazon price match this I have £40 balance on a gift card waiting to be spent

Will fire starter run without root? Thought it needed to hook into the startup.

Install firestarter home launcher, better than the default amazon launcher.

Will I be able to root this on the latest firmware. All I want go do is have sideloaded apps where they should be. With other apps on front page.

I've already got a 4k TV with Amazon and 4k Netflix built in which I've yet to subscribe too! I thought buying this 4k box for £65 installing Kodi any other programs would give me everything for free sports, movies, Netflix,Amazon ect and the main reason was BT SPORT as ain't got this with My Sky package. Don't know whether to keep it or take it back as my TV has majority of it. People selling this on eBay fully loaded for a £100 plus so must work for some people. Anyone give us advice as still sitting in the box. ??

How does this compare to a Haswell Intel NUC i3? I own one and was wondering if the Fire TV would be an upgrade on it.

Thanks Op, this is £80 at Amazon

I already got Smart TV with most of the catchup apps. So do you think, buying Fire TV will add any extension to my collection?

The downside to Fire TV is you get to watch 3 ageing, overpaid petrolheads massaging each others egos.

Thanks very much. I'll take a look

I've just ordered thanks. How do I add kodi please?

Heat added. I'm tempted to bite and get one but I'm hoping the Nvidia shield drops to £120 again, great price though.

i didn't know that, but i'm in wn5 so hopefully not far off

Thanks for posting

Your be able to watch top gear if you also subscribe to prime.

Never knew you could use a mouse or keyboard on this. When I attempted to put in a USB stick, it never even delivered the 5v

Oh, external HDD did not work on mine. Samsung and Toshiba. And there is no software to access it. Firmware on the latest.

Can you watch the new top gear via this? My other half keeps going on about it not paid any attention what so ever? Do you have to connect to wifi with this too?

Great product, you can sideload apps too (without rooting)
There is an app on Android that you put on your phone or tablet and it transfers it to the Fire and it runs (Not all the time) I have spotify/accuradio and more on it.

Not done Kodi yet but will as I have just slammed a 64g memory card, as apps automaticly install when the internal memory is full.

Little miffed as the internal memory appears to be 8g, but that is not too concerning due to the above.

Voice search is good, but does not search Netflix internally.

At the moment the USB port has not been activated, so you can't use it for anything, sadly. but PLEX is available.

Official software is a little thin on the ground but I'm sure it will get there.

I found that finding your way around is a little confusing, and sideloaded apps are hidden away in the settings section.

Re: Bluetooth, I have connected my Bluetooth speaker to it, Keyboard, Mouse, and a Bluetooth Receiver.

Only thing that is, that it's missing ALL4 (Tried sideloading, but no joy)

Phew!!!

Get it, it costs less than a price of a night out. You can always return it. If not your never know.

Have fun

Wn7 postcodes have been

Surely Wigan has to be next then.

I can second that, we did that on our fire tv stick.

Thanks. If I just downloaded kodi would I need to pay any costs?

Tv?

What cable is it to put into to?

This is a great product.

LVG HOT.

Hi if I bought this and downloaded kodi would I need to pay for any extras? Don't understand how the cost works

I know that's what I'm waiting for

Yeah if Amazon pricematch, download the primenow app for a tenner off (in certain postcodes)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=pn_uk_surl_lp?node=6584642031

Manchester / Bolton just been added

Come on Amazon

Whats the running costs? Does it require a contract, and what TV content does it give you?

(Am clearly a clueless Fire TV observer).

Are the additional features to this (compared to the stick) worth having?

Well that was the plan but the audio issue is a little bit concerning.

get one and install Kodi, it'll be the best thing you'll ever do.