I'm sorry to break it to you, but trying to use a browser on Android TV is a mistake. You're not meant to do so, and trying to do so will only result in frustration. I'm not sure why you thought this would be a good idea, but there you are.

So here's some ideas:

• If you're bent on using a browser, try other browsers like Firefox. Puffin seems to be the least shitty option, but no guarantees it works. I also doubt it'll be certified to handle DRM'd content such as you are likely to find on Rogers.
• Install apps for as much as you can. Rogers Anyplace TV seems to have an app, give it a shot.
• Buy a cheap Intel NUC, install Windows on it, and hook it up to the TV using HDMI.

The big reason why you won't find a browser on Android TV is that browsers and 10-foot UIs don't work . A browser is meant to have lots of little details and require fine grained control. A TV is meant to have large details and course-grained control. Yes, you can make it work, but you're 1 in 10 million; it's not a use case that Google considers important, and I agree with them. Connecting a mouse to an Android TV is almost completely unheard of. Maybe someday Google will support a browser on Android TV, but I don't think it'll ever happen and if it did, I'd never use it.

Android TV supports Chromecast. The device you cast from is not serving the content to the TV. It's sending the TV a URL or something similar, then the TV downloads the stream. You'd only need a Chromecast device if you wanted to plug into a legacy TV. You might be able to get most of your websites to work by casting from your phone.

Most of us a pretty happy with our Android TV devices. I use and only use Android TV apps - Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, etc, and they all work just perfectly. I'm not trying to use a TV for a web browser because I know that it's not fit for that purpose.

In the future, I'd recommend that you do a little more research before you buy something that you have no experience with.

You bought an Android TV to sail the high seas, and your first mistake was that you'd do it in the same as you do it on your laptop, because the Android TV environment is locked down for good reason, to achieve legitimacy for legal services like Netflix and Amazon

Having said that, most of us sail the high seas regularly, because for everything there is an alternative. You want movies and TV series? There's /r/TerrariumTV. You want sports? There's Mobdro and a number of other apps you can sideload and work quite well. And as others suggested there is Kodi which has everything integrated in its plugins, but you seem not to like it.

Well my friend, if you wanted to sail the high seas and wanted to do it easy, you came at the wrong time.

I know you can do all of this easily using a web browser. Well then, you should have them a cheap laptop that they can connect to a TV. Actually they can already do this by casting the tab in chrome without wires to the Android TV, better if you use an extension in chrome called castbuddy.

Good luck in your endeavours. Be strong.

Edit: btw I just tried that sportshd site on my mobile and it got redirected too. It's not an Android TV issue.

God damn, change your browser user agent string. Chrome is the same browser on Android TV that is on Android phones and tablets. The website is the one blocking set top boxes.

Try this app it might help: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instantbits.cast.webvideo

Puffin Tv From the people of puffin browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa.puffinTV

what are you trying to do?! ? just press the mic button to tell what you want to watch, not sure what you are trying to achieve.

Puffin tv. I watch strems on it

Yes, this sub is very weird.

It seems as if it's maintained by Nvidia and half posters are Shield shills and the other half have developed this weird relationship with the device where it has taken over their identity.

You want to install F-droid, which is a 'store' where everything is open source and free, and then use it install Yalp, which lets you install APKs (and updates) from Play.

Alternatively you can find the Firefox APKs on their own website, or use some 3rd party scrapers like apkmirror to obtain the Chrome APKs.

I don't remember how I accomplished that without a web browser - my ATV box came with an Apkmirror app so it was probably that. You might need to load an initial APK from a SD card or email it to yourself or something.

I can certainly play back video in either Chrome or FF, but that doesn't mean weird Rogers shit will work.

Use Chrome. If you have a voice remote then say "Open Chrome" if not then search the play store for chrome. If you have a mouse and keyboard it works fine for me and can even play HTML5 YouTube videos.

At least on my MiBox, I've got two browsers partly/mostly working for general purposes:

--the regular Android Chrome app set to desktop mode works OK, but you pretty much need to have a mouse installed. Although my MiBox remote D-pad works for scrolling up and down (even though it doesn't shown its own cursor).

--the version 2.1 app of Firefox for the Fire TV works reasonably well and shows up on my MiBox with its own onscreen moveable cursor and click-generated pop-up on-screen keyboard, just like on the Fire TV. But there's no back button functionality on the MiBox remote as there is on the FireTV remote, so that aspect doesn't work.

Video streaming is hit or miss on both, depending on the particular site. Just give the particular site a try on both browsers and see what you can produce.

One thing about the Amazon Fire TV version Firefox 2.1 app is once you use it to access YouTube, it doesn't seem to want to let go of that site and take you back to is opening screen menu/homepage. I literally had to exit the app, force close and clear its data/cache, in order to get released from the YT site.

Wow, so many bad responses. Chrome doesn't work for me either. My father in law wants it and it's Shit. I also don't want excuses why I don't need it. I just want help on how to fix it....I guess I won't get help here either