Hi... About a year ago, I'd decided to 'uncut' the cord. But, there was no way I was going back to paying Fios for a large house full of cable boxes in every room - we'd hit 7. It was absurd.

Using Nexus Players, Shields, a HD HomeRun Prime, and a single cable card, our cable bill went from over $350 a month to $99 - including the M-card and 75/75 internet and the HD Ultimate package (good deal, Verizon reps were nuts before Frontier bought them). All our cable channels in each room when needed, low price, and all was good in the world.

I have four Shields - so quite an investment in hardware.

Last week, in the DFW area, Frontier Fios (bought from Verizon in 2015) set the 'CopyOnce' CCI bit on most of their cable channels. My world came crashing down around me. The shields got unplugged, and I had to go drop several hundred dollars in a Tivo Bolt and several Tivo Mini's - it's actually quite nice; still just a single M-Card.

Anyway, although I'm reasonably happy with a great menu, integrated DVR, and multi-room solution, the AndroidTV menuing is much better and I've become a sucker for AndroidTV.

Will this madness end? Why can Tivo get around the CopyOnce restriction with their devices, but AndroidTV / HDHomeRun can't?

I have an understanding of the technical aspects upstream, and even here in the house (I know WMC, for instance seems to be the only software device that defeats this). What I'm curious about is why Tivo, and not HDHomeRun / AndroidTV?

LiveChannels was wonderful for us.... this has been a bummer.

Has anyone experienced this? Just bought a Shield TV recently and now it just randomly turns off. Not even into sleep mode, just a full hard power down out of nowhere. Has anyone had this issue before?

Hello,

I'm having an issue with getting stereo audio to play through my Nvidia Shield. I'm able to pass through Surround Sound audio when watching media in Kodi, but I'm unable to stream stereo audio, be it music or a video that is encoded in stereo. I encountered the same issue in Netflix, Pandora, and YouTube. In addition, system sounds won't even play (such as the beep when running the audio/video sync).

I have swapped ports on my TV and receiver, reseated all connections, reset default settings to no resolve. Stereo audio does not play on TV when directly connected to the Shield.

This issue started before I updated to ver.3.3 and persisted after. This is the first time I have had any issue since I bought the shield last year.

I did stream a game from my PC last week, but that is the only thing that I have done differently and I know stereo audio worked before that.

Any ideas you have would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I'm hoping members of this subreddit can help me. I have a Sony Bravia Android TV and have connected my Verizon coax cable to the QAM tuner on the TV. When it ran, it (sadly) discovered over 1000 channels. This presented quiet a chore to pare down the list of desired channels (which only totaled around 6) via Live Channel's hide/show options.

Unfortunately, despite paring things down, the program guide does not display anything. It's just a series of blank dates and times.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any way to fix it?

I get occasional stutters and graphical artifacts with the Live TV app and intermittent buzzing in the sound. Everything else works great. No issues with Plex, Gamestream, or anything else. It's strictly the Live TV app. I didn't experience this with any prior updates. My source is a HD Homerun Prime. Has anybody else experienced this? If so, how did you fix it?

So far I've tried wired 360 controllers, GameCube and an off brand gaming controller. Nothing seems to be working. What gives?

Hey guys. Picked up my Google home today and it's pretty great. Having an issue casting to my Nexus player from it though. The Nexus is up to date with the latest cast receiver. I've pretty much tried everything. The Google home app shows the np and I can cast to it from the app.

I'd like to remove the np and readd it but can't figure out how to do that in the Google home app. Wondering if anyone knows how to do so?

I'll report later if it made things better. Just letting people know it's out there.

I assume the answer is "no" as it stands, but I'll ask anyway to confirm: Can you in some fashion replace webOS or Tizen with Android TV?

I'm looking for a new TV for a friend of mine, and after I bought a new TV recently with AndroidTV I'm honestly convinced it's the way to go. However, our selection of TVs in Norway isn't exactly amazing. Sony have a pretty small share, and the data I picked up on Philips TV didn't paint a very good picture of their quality.

Long story short, LG and Samsung have shittons of options here, but they all run webOS and Tizen respectively. If possible, I'd like to run Android TV, as it seems the option that should have better support long-term...

Seem like I have to reboot the mi box everytime I wake it up from sleep mode for sling tv to work. Not sure if it a bug but it's really annoying.

A lot of shows and movies never load on HBO on my mi box. I get a green screen. Most shows and movies never load. For some reason Vice seems to be the only show that loads correctly consistently. Anyone know a fix or have any ideas on why this is happening?

Need some help moving apps on my mi box's internal storage to my USB drive to free up space. I formatted Ann old USB drive to internal storage and couldn't do it. I want to move some apps over with out formatting to internal storage if that's possible.

Has anyone encountered this?

I have 2.4 and 5 ghz. It'd connect to 5 ghz but data doesn't appear to transfer. Online services like Netflix, Hulu, Play Store don't work.

Everything's fine on 2.4ghz.

I have other devices on 5ghz so no problem there.

If so, which one? Why? How? :)

Just got a Mibox and want to scrobble music but can't find any apps available. Does anyone know a solution?

This is really racking my brain here. The software on the box is up to date, and connecting to Google cast over my wifi network works fine, but I find that connecting the remote app is incredibly inconsistent connecting to the box, regardless of wifi or Bluetooth. I've tried setting a static IP as well and that hasn't helped. Any suggestions?

Dears, I consider buying a new TV with Android firmware. Any suggestions what I could get for max. €1500?

Thank you in advance!