Amazon Fire TV

Schizo · 14 Sep 2015 at 20:10

I wish I had got one from the bay.

robfosters · 14 Sep 2015 at 20:12

schizo said:
I wish I had got one from the bay.

Ok thanks. For fourty quid I might as well have a bash.

sven256 · 14 Sep 2015 at 21:45

schizo said:
I wish I had got one from the bay.

Give me a shout if you want a backup sending over. All you would need to do is click restore in ftv.

SexyGreyFox · 15 Sep 2015 at 07:38

robfosters said:
Are these a much better bet than the fully loaded £40 boxes you find on ebay?

I would say so.
The Fire TV is simplicity to side load TVMC which is probably what all eBay sellers are doing.
Also the Fire TV remote is (IMO) perfect.

Psycho Sonny · 15 Sep 2015 at 17:14

I would compare build quality and specs as well as OS tbh of the ebay boxes vs this.

Bare in mind it has amazon prime, ethernet, usb built in as well as tons of apps and games to play.

It also has a bulletproof warranty with amazon, i think you would have issues with those chinese android boxes.

Also you know amazon is constantly supporting their devices with updates. Those android boxes will never see one unless you do it yourself.

The fire tv is very slick, not as powerful as a pc but it does everything quite fast, a lot faster than the stick.

Kutter · 16 Sep 2015 at 02:09

cant buy the tv currently over here, its out of stock, bought the stick today, will get the tv when its back on sale over here

sansnom · 16 Sep 2015 at 11:25

peterwalkley said:
Kodi is just fine on the Fire. I run it and play my ripped blu-rays at full HD quality with no issues (served from a HP microserver acting as a NAS box over wired connection). Its an identical experience to Kodi running on my main watercooled PC box that cost 20 times at much

I don't use custom skins though - and this is the Fire TV box, not the stick.

dont you have a 24p playback issue if you're running full hd movies with the fire tv?

sansnom · 16 Sep 2015 at 11:29

doofski said:
cant buy the tv currently over here, its out of stock, bought the stick today, will get the tv when its back on sale over here

I feel like they're coming out with a Fire TV 2 atm - it's suddenly gone unavailable everywhere, much like the NEST protect did a couple of months back before showing up again as a NEST 2.0

Kanifee · 16 Sep 2015 at 12:58

sansnom said:
dont you have a 24p playback issue if you're running full hd movies with the fire tv?

Isn't that a android thing rather than a fire tv thing? Anyway, I have dabbled with a couple of cheaper android boxes, a pi and the amazon fire tv is infinitely better in quality and the remote is just worth it on it's own compared to the tripe the others come with.

sansnom · 16 Sep 2015 at 13:38

Kanifee said:
Isn't that a android thing rather than a fire tv thing? Anyway, I have dabbled with a couple of cheaper android boxes, a pi and the amazon fire tv is infinitely better in quality and the remote is just worth it on it's own compared to the tripe the others come with.

yep and there's been talk of that being 'corrected' for gods know how long but still no sign of native support

wellibob · 16 Sep 2015 at 14:25

It looks very likely a Fire TV box (4k output enabled) version 2 is due in December. Possibly Fire Stick getting a refresh after.

sansnom · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:33

Already out:

Amazon Fire TV - 4k

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UH2O6..._rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=697033867&pf_rd_i=desktop

Hutchy · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:40

Lets hope it's as easy to configure with that ATV gui available. Spec's look great.

Goose · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:41

No gigabit ethernet which is a shame.

sansnom · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:44

£10 says they haven't fixed the 24p issue

sansnom · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:45

Goose said:
No gigabit ethernet which is a shame.

didn't spot that! wth! That's a big negative imho

Metallifux · 17 Sep 2015 at 14:55

sansnom said:
£10 says they haven't fixed the 24p issue

You mean the Android 24p issue, nothing to do with Amazon.

wellibob · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:19

I'd be all over this but like the above posts said. The Android 24fps needs sorting out

wellibob · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:20

wellibob said:
It looks very likely a Fire TV box (4k output enabled) version 2 is due in December. Possibly Fire Stick getting a refresh after.

Typo I meant October. I was close. Ha ha.

sansnom · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:27

Metallifux said:
You mean the Android 24p issue, nothing to do with Amazon.

Not entirely true, theres some android boxes that have managed to sort out the 24 playback issue - if they can do it, Amazon should be able to. Plus from what I understand Fire OS isn't stock android