My Netflix app refuses to show 4K content on my Mi Box. Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

I don't have this problem with YouTube...

Yes I have a 4K TV and yes I pay for 4K Netflix.

Edit: When I plug my Mi Box directly in to my TV, 4K content comes up, but if I plug it in to my home theater system (which is 4K-ready), no 4K content. I would be okay with plugging into the TV except that my TV only passes through 2.0 PCM audio.

Edit 2: Problem is my non-HDCP 2.2 compliant home theater system. Piece of shit.

I just hopped on the Android TV bandwagon with the new MiBox, before that I was not familiar with the platform. I will be using it as my main entertainment hub, instead of subscribing to cable.

I set it up yesterday, downloaded the available TV apps such as ESPN, ABC etc and sideloaded the Fios Mobile app (I use my parents account to gain access to these).

I noticed the play store for android TV seems pretty limited, so do most people side load their favorite apps? And then how do they get them to show up in the homescreen app list? The sideloaded Fios Mobile app doesn't show up, so I have to dive into the apps through the settings. Is this why people reference "leanback" support?

I suppose I'm just looking for some insider info on what to do next to make the most of the box. Maybe we could get into a discussion on how people use theirs, or if there is some good documentation on different uses.

So frustrated right now, I was trying to watch the Penguins game by casting the NBC Sports app to my Sony XBR-810C. The experience was awful due to terrible quality, sync issues, and random disconnects. Then in the middle of the second period the stream stopped, I tried to reconnect the app but nothing I do is working. Now I can't cast anything to the TV. I can see the TV as available but nothing happens when I try to connect.

Troubleshooting steps:

• Restart TV

• Force stopped google cast receiver, restarted TV again

• Uninstalled then reinstalled all updates for google cast receiver

• Pulled the plug for 5 minutes

• Disconnected ethernet cord and connected to wifi

• Tried casting from 3 devices

I've called sony support and their only suggestion was to do a factory reset which I'm really trying to avoid. I still don't all have my settings back after the last time I did a factory reset.

Thanks for your help.

For anyone else, when you watch a video on youtube on android tv, does it not mark it watched on the web or your phone? It doesn't for me. Seems weird this doesn't sync but between web and phone app it does.

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Trying to get the Android TV remote app working to use my phone (Nexus 6) as a remote. Both devices are able to see each other but the app won't connect. No other issues with either device connecting to Bluetooth devices that I'm aware of. Any advice? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

This is really strange to me. Why in the world would Comcast subscribers be locked out of HBO-Go for Android TV, but not on an Android phone, or XBox One, etc? What's going on here? Part of the HBO experience that I pay for is HBO-Go, so I feel like I'm getting ripped off.

Who's blocking this? Is it Comcast's doing, or Android/Google, or HBO? Really annoying. I know there are work-arounds (casting from phone) but I hate casting. I'd own a chromecast if I liked casting as a primary way to watch shows on my tv.

Hi people, i want to buy a Mi box but i can't buy it through wallmart or mi.com i need to get one through amazon, eBay or best buy.. do you have any idea when i can buy it from there? Or if wallmart has a shipping service?

Is there a way to save screen shots on the mi box?

I got my Mi Box last night and started searching through the threads to see which apps are side loadable. So far I've seen Amazon Prime TV, and Verizon Fios Mobile.

Any other worthwhile apps to sideload that work well? Any browsers, or emulators?

EDIT: List so far:

• Amazon Prime Video
• Chrome
• MiXplorer
• Mobdro
• NFL Mobile

I'm trying to find an android tv that can play X265 videos and can play 10bit videos too and support USB3. don't care about 4K.

i have the Mi box im trying out..my question is, what are some of the best boxes to run kodi on in this price range? 70-99 bucks?

I am using the Arial dream that steals all the drone footage from Apple TV, and I love it. However I would like to have the option to have my screen turn into a a huge 4k photo frame with random images from the past popping up.

Is there anyway to accomplish this?

I know here is the Nvidia shield but it comes with a hefty price tag. I haven't seen this much hoopla about an Android TV device since the Nexus Player. My Nexus Player has always been slow and jittery so I think I may upgrade. I doubt we will ever see a Nexus Player 2 so is the Mi Box the next best thing?

Has anyone tried a bluetooth keyboard and mouse (or keyboard with touchpad) with the Mi Box? Do they work well? I know you can get keyboard functionality from the Android TV app on a phone, but it doesn't always work. Case in point: trying to display codec info while playing a video in Kodi (or most other keyboard controls in Kodi).

I picked up a Mi Box at the local Wal-Mart and hooked it up via HDMI to my Harman Kardon receiver. So far I get perfect DTS and Dolby pass-through in SPMC, but nothing else I have tried gives anything but two channel audio. My audio options are HDMI, SPDIF or Auto (which chooses PCM). Is there something I'm missing here, or do Netflix, Hulu and others just not pass-through Dolby?

Gave me a free week, not month, and offer even stated 12 months free when signing up which I know is wrong! Anybody else sign up and get a week instead of a month?

I own 2 Mi Boxes. MiBox1 works great; no problems with playback of video or anything. MiBox2 will not play anything on Netflix. I tried hooking up both boxes to the same TV and MiBox1 works, MiBox2 doesn't. On MiBox2, Netflix will play video for a couple of seconds, then throw up a message saying that it can't play the video.

Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, any fixes?

Has anyone got the Nexus Player gamepads to pair with the Mi Box? I can't get mine to work. Seems like they should pair up with the Mi Box like any other bluetooth controller would.

Hi ,

I just got my Mi box from Mi.com today , when i first opened the box i saw the Live Channels app and was able to open it and test it .

Then i updated the Mi box and since then i don't see the app on the home screen , when i goto Play store it shows as installed .

I even tried alternate launchers still no luck all other installed apps show up , only this one doesnt show up .

Also tried multiple resets still no luck :(

Anyone else had the issue ?

Please help

What is the deal with this? It has always been this way and I haven't seen many posts about this.

Maybe I am a power user? I would think people have more then I do, but it only shows like maybe 7 of my 15 playlists. (which might sound like a lot but idk I just have categories for videos I save). I always have to add videos to Watch Later FROM my playlists to access them. It doesn't even show the last modified either, idk HOW it is choosing some of these, some of them are very old and I don't use anymore (but still want saved)

And my subscriptions stop at about the letter M. I have 191 of them but IDK, maybe it is too much for memory? But atleast give me a button to "Load More".

I literally don't go to all of thes channels because I can't select them.