Device for media playback

Yeah the amlogic box I got works ok but definitely needs another remote. I went with the a 'G10S 2.4GHz Wireless Air Mouse Remote' which is doing alright for £7.
Box seems to die off now and again, but still for £30 can't complain too much!
 
Yes the advantage of this over the cheap is till codec support, and netflix/YouTube licences etc.

I presume anyway. But then it's £100.
 
Thanks to everyone who has input to this thread.
Ive been looking recently and this has steered me in the direction of the Zidoo.
Will let you know how I get on with it.
 
Amazon Firestick + Plex server on PC does everything I need. Amazon's remotes are what attracted me to their hardware in the first place - can't get much smaller/simpler.
 
dholdi said:
Thanks to everyone who has input to this thread.
Ive been looking recently and this has steered me in the direction of the Zidoo.
Will let you know how I get on with it.
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I used to have a zidoo H6 . hardware wise it was excellent but it had very little support and ultimately had a lot of issues with it

it cost a lot however I ended up with an Nvidia shield and have no regrets.
 
bigmike20vt said:
I used to have a zidoo H6 . hardware wise it was excellent but it had very little support and ultimately had a lot of issues with it

it cost a lot however I ended up with an Nvidia shield and have no regrets.
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Hmmm, what sort of support was lacking and what were the issues you experienced ?
 
i'm using Apple TV with Infuse for stuff from the NAS. plus apps for Prime, Netflix, disney, iplayer etc. i use it for everything, i never use the TV interface at all.

originally i had it running through the AVR, old Denon 2311 at 1080p. Everything was perfect. Frame rate switching works flawlessly, so the TV always refresh rate always matches the fps of the video. I cant bare it all juddery playing all 24p content at 60Hz, so its a big thing for me.

Then i got a new TV. kept it at 1080p for ages until i got the new tv unit and put the cables in the wall etc. My AVR doesnt pass 4K, and also doesnt have eArc, only ARC, so i use a device that connects to the EARC out of the TV, strips out the audio, then i put that into a regular input on the AVR. it works pretty well, but i need to reboot the device sometimes. i suspect if i powered it down with everything else, rather than just keep it powered all the time, then it may behave better. for now its better than buying a new AVR that passes 4K. My only gripe with the Apple TV is that is doesnt bitstream audio, it decodes it and sends it as PCM. It all works fine, and sounds great, but you dont get DTS-HD etc appear on the AVR.

In doing all of this, ive had zero audio sync issues.

i use a harmony remote for everything, but the Apple remote is a nice little thing, and seems to just work to control the volume of the AVR without any issues.

I am not an apple guy. i had an ipod years ago, and now the Apple TV. if your an apple guy, i suspect it works well with other apple kit.

i previously used intel Nucs with openelec/librelec. it worked really well most of the time, but the Apple TV is spot on. i'll never go back to anything else now... they had better not mess it up with an update or something.
 
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