I'm looking at Canadian best buys black Friday deals and there's similar TVs but the Android TV feature seems to be an extra $100 on some models.

Is it worth it?

To a point it is unusable. I am using hdhomeruns connected to an antenna hard wired on the network. It worked for a day now the rerun channel setup screen keeps popping up. Anyone know anything about this? I've tried uninstalling updates for live channels, still happening.

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I have a Sony TV and quite frankly I’m fed up with it. It decodes x265 but I’m constantly having issues with it passing 5.1 audio back to my amp via HDMI and Kodi (most of the time Kodi/Android OS only pass 2.0).

What I want is a simple solution which will:

• run Kodi
• decode x265 and HD audio
• decode 4K content happily
• pass back HD audio to my amp
• support gigabit Ethernet (my content is on a Synology NAS and the bigger UHD rips just struggle with 10/100 Ethernet

A year or so ago I looked into this and the Nvidja Shield was one of the only boxes which ticked all boxes. It was (and still is) pretty damn pricey.

What should I be looking at buying?

Hi, I’m hoping somebody is able to help me, I’ve been searching google all day but come up with nothing.

My V88 android box is stuck showing a blue light with no signal going to the tv. The remote doesn’t take it out of standby, but the remote is working as the red light flashes on button presses.

I’ve tried new hdmi, different tv etc.

I’ve also tried the various methods of hard resetting pushing something into the AV socket.

But it’s still stuck just showing the blue light.

Any help is appreciated.

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I saw the recent post mentioning FitzyTV, and /u/fitznd (app author) gave me some information on the app. It really does look great. I'm an Xfinity customer, but I'm only using them for internet, not for TV. So far it has been great, and the DVR works pretty flawlessly.

Here is my problem. In YT, I have the premium sports package and there are a bunch of channels that don't show up. I'm also seeing a discrepancy for my locals market. NY and SFO stations show up, but I am in CT.

I'd like to have it mapped accurately to what Im subscribed to. Remapping channel numbers would be nice, but definitely not a priority.

I'd like to try the Xfinity streaming service but I want to make sure everything I'm paying for comes up. They don't support Android TV, so this app would be perfect.

Is there any way to use Android TV on an Cubox-i4-pro?

Hi everyone,

I have a problem I have not seen others report anywhere. On my Nvidia shield my Amazon Prime Video app just stopped listening to my ExpressVPN VPN settings ("not available in your region"). The app opens but sees me like without VPN (so, almost no viewable content at all). Since this happens in mid-series it's an emergency of course :)

This started happening about 9 days ago, Nov 8 or 9, worked perfectly before that for a year or so. The ExpressVPN app was updated around that time but not 100% same time frame. Amazon Video app version is mid October.

The exact same setup still works fine for Amazon Video (and Netflix) on at least the following devices:

Samsung S8, ExpressVPN app 7.1.4 (same version as on shield) (or OpenVPN app using ExpressVPN service)
Windows 10, Chrome 70 browser, ExpressVPN app 6.7.1

(There is an amazing hassle installing a browser on nVidia shield now, was about to try that next - try Amazon Video on browser on the shield).

Nothing I have tried works (changing VPN modes in ExpressVPN, changing VPN servers, restarts, uninstalling Amazon Video updates etc.).

Any ideas? This is only reason for my Prime membership :/

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I cannot even cast my S8 video apps to the shield to temporarily solve the problem, I would have thought that was the easiest of all.

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I've been looking to buy an TV for a while, and I had been set on getting one with Android TV.

However, I often hear that the operating system is more clunky than some competitors, such as Roku, and I have started to wonder what the actual benefits of an Android TV is compared to a Chromecast.

Anyone have a succinct comparison of the two?

In previous posts people stated that the Voice Search is working now like on Marshmallow. I couldn't test it because home and mic button on my remote were unresponsive due to another bug on Oreo. Yesterday I did a factory reset, which fixed buttons on remote, but from what I see the mic button still open Google Assistant, not the in app search like on Marshmallow.

So my question is: is it just on my MiBox? or maybe they still didn't fix it?

I'm desperate, please help me. I've been researching hours now, and there are so many godamnn boxes on amazon. And its confusing cuz some people in the reviews say 4k doesnt work some say it does, i don't know who to believe.

I would watch real, large 4k movies (no hdr) that takes 40-60gb on a usb drive. Which box is the best to run smoothly 4k?

Please recommend only under 100$. And dont you bring up shield here! Thats blasphemy!

The image is not smooth at all, and seem to drag. This is very noticeable in sports. I've found more people complaining about this problem, so I guess there's nothing I can do to fix it, right?

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What is the alternative? The Shield is usually recommended, but it is too expensive for me.

Lots of bugs and issues can be found on this reddit.

After some research a while back, i bought the h96 max plus, and its a piece of shit in internet connecivity. im getting about 1mB per second tops, sometimes 600-800kBps. My connection at home and 3 other devices in the same place are getting way better results with our 150mbps connection.

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So im wondering if the Mi Box is a good purchase right now? I see they update often to fix bugs. I wonder if wifi is any good and if 4k youtube playback is good.

Edit: I am not interested in the shield as i want to connect it directly to a projector. So that means powered by usb. Alot of boxes allow this, but not the shield. The shield is also way more expensive.

Wanting to get a new Android box that runs Android TV os and I found these two that seem good. Has anyone had either of them and could tell me the pros and cons and overall which one to get? I'll be using it with Ethernet so wifi isn't a big deal and I just use it for streaming.

Looking to have something on my TV during a house party.

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Anybody got a apk link that works on mi box oreo? Tried several versions of the apk none work.

Hello everyone!

So, the latest update fixed pretty much every issue I had with my Mi Box, but what I noticed not so long ago started to worry me again. Basically, whenever I try to listen to Spotify, the sound is all stuttery and lagged, as if there was an Internet connection lag, but the thing is YouTube and Netflix works just fine. What's more, when I try to do anything with Spotify in background, the whole box is so horribly lagged that it's hard to do anything at all. Is it Xiaomi fault or the app? Anyone experienced that issue and knows what to do with this?

I am in the market to purchase a Android TV box. But I would like one that can turn ON my TV and switch the HDMI input to itself (Android TV Box).

From my little research I believe HDMI CEC does this. But what I don't know is which Android TV box supports this feature. I would also like to see if I can turn it on through a Google home.