I've got a few games on my phone like final fantasy viii remastered that I don't see anywhere in the play store on my shield tv. It seems unlikely, but is there any way to get them on the shield?

How do i change my resolution settings on my android tv? I have a philips UHD 4k. I have limited data usage every month, and my tv apps are streaming in 4k and using it all. I would like to switch to 1080p. I have no tv settings options only device preferences. So i havent had much luck following youtube and google. Any help would be lovely!

So Ive heard there are a few apks of bbc iplayer app out there but only certain versions are capable of 4k hdr. Can anyone confirm which apks that would be?

Thanks

I've read that 43" TVs are often rather poor, but that's the biggest size that will fit. I am in Europe and the budget is around €400, and Amazon would be easiest.

I have never actually used a smart TV, and I'm wary, but after, err, several months of pondering, and still not knowing how to actually try a few TVs and see what their operating systems are like... I think I have my mind on buying an Android TV, since at least I already know Android a decent amount, and I've read that most of those TVs do allow ADB access for things like replacing the terrible, spammy launchers they generally ship with one of your choice, or sideloading the apps you want, or disabling pre-installed apps that you don't want as you consider them spyware or anything.

But... while it's great that "most Android TVs" allow this stuff, which ones actually do? What is a decent brand (or even specific models, that would be lovely!) that keeps their Android clean and up-to-date but doesn't mess too much which it and with what the user is allowed to do, without removing options or locking them out?

I've even learned that there are a couple of Hisense TV models with an unlockable bootloader (no exploits, just standard fastboot), which would be ideal, but then nobody has made an alternative ROM for them, so while that's great in theory, I'm unsure it currently helps me in practice.

A bit of an open-ended question, because I'm really not fully aware of the details having never used one of these TVs, so please let me know of any detail that you think a clueless user of older "dumb" TVs might know nothing about, despite most of you here seeing it as obvious.

For example, do TVs these days tend to come with a competent remote control based on, say, BLE, given all the smart stuff they are meant to be doing, or should I still expect just infrared? Will they allow me to connect Bluetooth audio devices like any Android phone would? How is reception of regular broadcast (DVB-T2 here) TV implemented, is it an app, or does it feel more like a regular TV by default and then you can go into the "smart" app-y section?

I have a redmi x50 smart tv and two Sony 32 non smart TV's I can play videos from my mobile phone seamlessly on those non smart TV's but there is no option to play on the redmi one. Please help as we play 4k videos of size 20 gb which is not possible to transfer to tv because of low storage

Basically the title. Does anyone know if Google's fast pair is available on the Sony A80J? Many thanks!

Just installed Smart YT TV and every time a video gets to an ad the app says it's skipping the ad but what it really does it it just goes to a different video. Has anyone else experienced this also.

Any suggestions as to how to fix this ?

Looking for a good box with official google tv and emulator pre installed All in one box. Any suggestions

Hi, I have Sennheiser Momentum 2 with aptX support. Is there a way to use aptX on my Sony Android TV? I can only use SBC right now.

Hello Androiders,

Can anyone tell me what is the official ITV app to watch on Android TVs? Is it ITVx or ITV Hub? I can see ITVx has been rebranded as the all-in-one app, but it does not seem to be an Android TV version.

Has anybody had problems with IPTV buffering every 30 seconds on Google TV?

I literally tried the following for 2 hours streaming straight and not ONCE if buffered!

VLC - Windows Smarters Pro - Windows/Android Smarters Lite - Windows/Android Tivi - Android MYIPTV - Windows

Now as soon as I try ANY app on Google TV, it buffers.

Not sure what can I do to fix this issue or any reason why this is going on?

Thanks,

I can't find any apks for them that work they never open and can't sideload on my sony tv the only one I got to open is bbc iplayer (I'm outside of the UK and will use a vpn to watch when I get the apps to open) Thanks

Annoyingly, I'm unable to play 8K content on my TV for the most part (Sony Bravia Z8H). Is there a way to force to output 8K on an 8K video? Or another app I can use? Etc?

i want to be able to change playback speed

The chromecast device is not turning off when i press the power button on the remote, rather i believe it turns off the tv and pauses whatever is playing. Is that correct?

What i really want is for it to turn off, because otherwise my iptv line apparently is kept open. This is problematic because it allows only one open stream - and so if i open it on my mobile phone my iptv gets locked.

Is it possible?

I have a Sony X900H Android TV .

Typically I turn everything off manually, but it used to be that a connected device (console, etc.) would shut down if left on too long and then my TV would go idle and shutdown shortly after.

Now when the device shuts down, the TV switches over to Google Play and just plays extremely loud trailers. It completely stops the idle function from turning the TV off. I've set the TV up now to turn off automatically after so many hours, but I would honestly prefer it worked how it used to work.

Is there some way to change this back? I can't find it in any of the menus. The only options seem to be to have it be PlutoTV or Google Play.

Just got my first Android TV today (Prism+ Q43 QE). Seems like this pop up only appear when I am using my Nintendo Switch with the TV, or when it is idle. Any idea on what to do?

It's just that, I have already tried changing on the screen menu on my android tv but it's not fit

I just bought an LG C2 and was using an Onn Android TV stick to watch Plex. No issues for a week then out of the blue it stopped playing Dolby Vision. I get Audio (with the Dolby Atmos badge) but no video. I swapped out for a Google Chromecast 4K and it works fine.

I also tried the Onn on another Dolby Vision capable TV and had the same issues. That TV plays DV fine as well using the Chromecast and its own built in Google TV system.

The Plex settings are the same on all setups, there is no transcoding going on.

This leads me to believe it's something with the Onn Android TV stick.

Any guidance would be helpful.

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering which streaming stick, Chromecast HD with Google TV or the Amazon Firestick 4K max is better given that they are on sale for around the same price at the moment for around $50 on Amazon Australia. I want to get it as a Christmas gift for my parents as they have a 1080p TV with no streaming/ Smart capability.

The specs seem very similar and I've read that whilst the remote for the Firestick is better, as it has Prime Video as a button and buttons for volume control, the Chromecast HD is newer, is more responsive and has USB C so I can plug in storage (e.g. family videos) and a keyboard and mouse if necessary through a dongle.

Thanks for the assistance.