Amazon Fire TV

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 10:22

Brilliant, i'll have me another

peterwalkley · 7 Aug 2015 at 10:37

Ah cool - I'd been waiting for this. Ordered a second for upstairs.

spudbynight · 7 Aug 2015 at 11:41

I just wish this had Now TV, 4OD, ITV Player...

CK61938 · 7 Aug 2015 at 14:32

spudbynight said:
I just wish this had Now TV, 4OD, ITV Player...

If you have Kodi on the Fire TV, you can then add ITV Player onto it. I remember that 4OD was on Kodi too but I haven't seen it recently. So maybe it's no longer compatible?? No idea. But I will check eventually.

spudbynight · 7 Aug 2015 at 14:58

CK61938 said:
If you have Kodi on the Fire TV, you can then add ITV Player onto it. I remember that 4OD was on Kodi too but I haven't seen it recently. So maybe it's no longer compatible?? No idea. But I will check eventually.

Yes, but having to open Kodi to then open the ITV plugin is just a pain.

SoliD · 7 Aug 2015 at 15:16

picnic said:
I see it's another £59 Fire day on Amazon for anyone who may have been waiting.

Bah, only got mine Wednesday

spudbynight · 7 Aug 2015 at 15:19

Buy new one, send the old one back.

UKDTweak · 7 Aug 2015 at 15:27

infernox said:
This bit intrigues me, I've seen IPTV that is subscription based.

Anyone have any more information on this, channels etc?

I'd be tempted to get one to replace having to run the inbuilt rubbish they call smart share on my LG.

The channels you get using IPTV Stalker depends on the m3u file or url you use, the link I posted a few weeks back gives you 685 channels, this is all the sky movies and sports, lots of US channels, about 240 in total, the rest are foreign.

Sometimes a channel wont load and can take a few tried to get it to, but most work first time, though the quality is not the same on every channel, some are very clear and some can be a bit meh... but for free, Im happy enough, between IPTV Stalker and IVue TV Guide... and filmon... lots of choice.

Martynt74 · 7 Aug 2015 at 15:41

SoliD said:
Bah, only got mine Wednesday

I did this in the last sale. Just open up a chat and ask if there's anything they can do. I got a refund on the difference straight away.

SoliD · 7 Aug 2015 at 21:03

Will try the refund method! Makes sense.

Edit - refunded the difference! very nice of them

May even have got one for £49, as think they have given me £20 back, but I used the £10 voucher off on Monday! So may have done very well out of this

Just trying to figure out where it's been refunded to, as I paid with gift cards.

SoliD said:
Just doing a bit of background reading before it turns up. I use a Logitech Harmony One, but appears not compatible, bit of googling suggests that the Ortek remote could be the thing to get to pair it up.

I already have the PS3 adapter logitech make, but presume this isn't compatible either.

Just a bump on this, spotted the Flirc too.

topher · 7 Aug 2015 at 22:50

I know that the fire tv box is better spec than the Roku 3, but for someone who isn't a prime instant video subscriber wouldn't the Roku 3 be the better choice?

The Roku supports BBC iPlayer, ITV, All4, Demand 5, Now TV and Netflix... this more than fire tv!

Metallifux · 8 Aug 2015 at 09:55

topher said:
I know that the fire tv box is better spec than the Roku 3, but for someone who isn't a prime instant video subscriber wouldn't the Roku 3 be the better choice?

The Roku supports BBC iPlayer, ITV, All4, Demand 5, Now TV and Netflix... this more than fire tv!

No Kodi on the Roku 3 to my knowledge.

Kanifee · 8 Aug 2015 at 09:58

Kore for android makes a excellent remote for kodi from your phone. Been using that more than the fire tv's remote.

SoliD · 8 Aug 2015 at 14:37

Refund received from Amazon! Fire TV box for £49 :-P

glad I asked!

SoliD · 14 Aug 2015 at 18:18

Slowly starting to get my FireTV set up, not had much time this week, sideloaded XBMC and BT Sport (although had an out of date version) so trying to find the latest to see if I can get this to work properly. Box seems very good so far, now I have got the DTS working using XBMC inside Plex. But definitely needs some more fine tuning!

BTSport almost latest app working, quality is pretty impressive for the stream, although need a mouse, which will be annoying if I want to use my Harmony remote as well using Flirc.

kinger8938 · 16 Aug 2015 at 18:12

just picked one of these up, do i need prime to really benefit though? i have netflix and spotify premium so thats cool and use Plex via a friends shared library, what else should i be setting up as say must have apps?

james.miller · 16 Aug 2015 at 18:28

prime has some good stuff on it but most of my watching is on netflix. i would say prime isnt really needed. it's a bit of a mess as well, the content is all over the place. Prime still has a free 30 day trial doesn't it? not much to lose

Goodie · 16 Aug 2015 at 19:25

You don't need prime at all, just get kodi on it and away you go

kinger8938 · 16 Aug 2015 at 19:37

Goodie said:
You don't need prime at all, just get kodi on it and away you go

i did have a flick through this thread before posting and saw kodi mentioned above, what is that?

Kanifee · 16 Aug 2015 at 20:48

Kodi is a open source third party media center application available on multiple platforms, has extensive support for a lot of add on's that install and enable a lot of functionality such as media streaming, iptv and much more.

It is highly configurable and well worth looking at.