Which player?

[Cheetah Designs]

These are the services I use, in order of priority: Now TV, Netflix, Amazon Video, BT Sport, BBC IPlayer, 4OD, ITV Hub, My5.

Rather annoyingly Amazon Video isn't supported by Chromecast, nor will it which the channel if you use its app to cast to something to a Fire TV stick.

So I am looking for the features in this priority order:

1. Supports all the services I use (I will accept BT sport as the exception - just about)
2. Fast interface (if there is one)
3. Ability to turn on/off the TV and some sort of volume control
4. Support for control through Google Home...I can say 'play big bang theory' and it will switch on the TV, turn the channel and play the program
5. Control through an app for Android

I don't mind a combination of devices, but when I play something I expect the channel to change to the correct one etc...

 

[Cheetah Designs]

Someone recommended the shield device. I thought it was an old player but apparently they have updated versions.

Does anyone know what the Amazon prime video app is like and whether there is Google home mini integration?

 

[thebandit]

The Shield TV is a cracking piece of kit, I keep looping back round to it, but have not taken the plunge yet. I don't think shield has a NOW TV app, when I looked into it there were various reports of getting now TV APK to work, but I wanted an all in one solution with no messing around.

In my searches to find a 4K HDR capable box for now TV, BBC, Netflix and Amazon strangely I didn't find a single device,. Naively I was expecting there to many choices but instead that I could find there isn't one.