Basically as an extra for the spare room so my in-laws can have their own space when the grand kids get too much and another for my technically incompetent mother who wants Netflix.
It seems like it is a get what you pay for type of thing, I run an older NUC as the front end of our Plex server in the lounge, but as we have a 4k tv (I won it in a competition - lucky me right!) so I am interested to see if it performs. My NUC is old and won't support 4k h.265 so I may swap them between the lounge and spare room if it turns out ok. The NUC is windows 10 so all applications we want, Spotify, etc are there. I am upgrading to gigabit fibre so expect to get around 600mb down on wifi (flash new routers and wifi AP's) so not worried about the lack of Ethernet.
Now my questions are: is it easy to update from Android 6.0? (I have not read up on XDA yet sorry) and is the Play Store localised? I read that it's a cut down version? I am getting the international version but I want to access the local streaming apps in my country (NZ), especially TVNZ so my FIL can watch the news at the volume he likes i.e ear screamingly loud. I understand that you can sideload if not immediately available but rather plug and play rather than faffing around.
Any thoughts? Cheers
EDIT: I am Idiot. I should have said Mi TV Boxes running official Andoid TV (model number not displayed but described as Global Xiaomi Mi TV Box 3 Android 6.0 Smart 4K Cortex-A53 WiFi Bluetooth 8GB H.265 Set-top Sling Youtube Netflix 4K DTS Dolby.
Thanks for all your advice, and remember be kind to one another!
I doubt TVNZ have android tv compatibile application unfortunately. It's on them to produce it, and as android tv is not proliferated in Aus or NZ Dev is slow or non existent.
ABC and SBS both have not released apps in Australia for whatever reason. You can sideload the normal android apps but they don't work well at all, certainly not for non technical folk. Many unnessary clicks and have to use mouse half the time, not to mention most load in portrait mode sideways...
It's a good device for the money, but it's held back this side of the planet by lack of good apps from content owners. Hope NZ is better than here, for your sake. Netflix is great, as is Stan and Plex/emby/Kodi/TerraiumTV.