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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The quality of the streams can be shite at times and you sometimes have difficulty getting onto some of the sports streams. Other than that, for £50 (you can do it yourself and save about £20), fill yer boots. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had one and gave it to the grandkids, if that's any indication though. I just couldn't stand the low quality after investing so heavily in A/V equipment. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They are bloody great...films and box sets work perfect...so a little like a now tv box without the subscriptions oh and a lot more content....with all the latest movies which some on there before the cinema 
Live streams like sport and pay for channels just take a little practice to find good links.
I would recommend a 2gb T95m box for around £30ish off amazon or eBay |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
North of The Wall - youll need your vest |
"Hi does anyone have this and are they anygood? I have no idea about them and only £50 but are they worth it? Any down sides? Thanks. "
I use mine 100% of the time, even for TV. Need a decent internet speed I think and other than old films/series etc the quality of the sound and picture is perfect for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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100% brilliant. Can't recommend them enough. Saving myself a fortune by not paying out for the cinema, sky or virgin etc etc. Has absolutely everything on kodi and more. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thanks again, there is hope after all . I have BT infinity and a booster right by my tv. Hoping that's good enough."
All broadband works but the faster it is the higher definition you can get.....mine on a speed test runs a about 2.5 mbps....which means standard definition is best without any buffering.
Fibre optic will give you 1080 quality easily but to be honest the standard definition is OK too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thanks again, there is hope after all . I have BT infinity and a booster right by my tv. Hoping that's good enough."
If you have fiber take the "booster" off it actually makes your signal strength lower than having it directly in the fibre socket on the wall  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you find out how fast your broadband is? Getting old lol "
Not too young myself lol....I think if you Google Internet speed test something will come up to test it.
Just had a quick look and broadband speedchecker is the first to come up when you Google it.....that should do it for you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
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Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
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Wrong - it's not illegal to stream.
The source of the stream is the one who is breaking the law. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I bought one last week and followed the instructions from the internet to download kodi and I have to say I think the quality on some films is excellent. Sport is abit hit and miss.
Somehow it's also downloaded a stack load of porn somehow?? |
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My tips, these are just for an easy life.
Get the retromania app for a fiver, life is so much easier. (Search retromaniaUK on Facebook)
Get yourself real debrid, Gives you access to more sources.
Get a VPN, to access blocked content.
Like I said, these are just quality of life suggestions,
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have a new iPad and would like to download a few films for my holiday.
Anyone recommend a site with low cost / free films.
Without getting into trouble.  "
Mobilevids.org i think its still going |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thanks again, there is hope after all . I have BT infinity and a booster right by my tv. Hoping that's good enough."
That should be more than enough. We've got fairly standard non fibre broadband and the only time we struggle is when trying to watch HD film while kids are on you tube at same time. We've ditched our talk talk since getting it as there's no need for talk talk any more, firestick and kodi does it all and more!!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I find the quality fucking awful compared to DVD/Blu Ray and I've yet to find anything that supports 5.1/7.1 surround sound.
Ours was in the house for about 3 days before it was shuffled off to daughter's house. Or neighbours still use theirs and watching films there drives me nuts. |
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By *ammyDodgaMan
over a year ago
Nottingham/and everywhere my location says i am ;) |
If you have a android tablet, download kodi or smpc straight from the store.
Or even easier, find a all purpose wizard that comes with its own kodi built in. Click it and bobs your uncle.
Run a hdmi micro from the tablet to the TVs and it's not cost you a thing.
But if you do like gadgetry, there's lots to choose. I'm running kodi on a android projector and watch everything at 200" of HD, 4K etc all on a white painted wall and a virgin internet only subscription to vivid 200. It's lightening fast ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you have a android tablet, download kodi or smpc straight from the store.
Or even easier, find a all purpose wizard that comes with its own kodi built in. Click it and bobs your uncle.
Run a hdmi micro from the tablet to the TVs and it's not cost you a thing.
But if you do like gadgetry, there's lots to choose. I'm running kodi on a android projector and watch everything at 200" of HD, 4K etc all on a white painted wall and a virgin internet only subscription to vivid 200. It's lightening fast ??"
That's it you have virgin fibre.... a lot of the reasons people get a shitty experience of kodi is because they have a slow speed connection.....and try to watch above SD.....it is not the box it's your Internet speed. |
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By *wo4FemCouple
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"If you have a android tablet, download kodi or smpc straight from the store.
Or even easier, find a all purpose wizard that comes with its own kodi built in. Click it and bobs your uncle.
Run a hdmi micro from the tablet to the TVs and it's not cost you a thing.
But if you do like gadgetry, there's lots to choose. I'm running kodi on a android projector and watch everything at 200" of HD, 4K etc all on a white painted wall and a virgin internet only subscription to vivid 200. It's lightening fast ??"
We have a kodi box which we sometimes link to our projector and watch films in the garden on our screen whilst toasting marshmallows over our fire pit. Failing that we just hook it up to the tv. All run through virgin 200 mbs wifi. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you have a Samsung or Philips smart TV you can download kodi for free directly onto the tv via their app stores so you don't need the firestick or any other external box.
To check your internet upload and download speed use this link it's the actual one BT use.
http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/ |
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal."
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now? |
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By *ammyDodgaMan
over a year ago
Nottingham/and everywhere my location says i am ;) |
"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now? "
Our last beloveded  pm tried and failed in the courts to ban this, just like every movie producing country tried with P2P sites. Like pirate bay etc.
You just move with the times.. it's software in free space, how do you police it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now? "
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then  |
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I use an android box loaded with Kodi, Showbox, etc, it brilliant for boxsets, series, and films!
I do however pay for a sports add on so I get every sports channel in full HD with less issues than sky for £50 a year! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I use an android box loaded with Kodi, Showbox, etc, it brilliant for boxsets, series, and films!
I do however pay for a sports add on so I get every sports channel in full HD with less issues than sky for £50 a year!"
Just a little note to say you'll only get HD if you've got a decent speed broadband |
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then "
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory. "
So I'll take it you don't indulge then  |
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory.
So I'll take it you don't indulge then "
I'm not saying I'm totally innocent, though 99% of what I watch does come from Sky, I'm just saying that this is a possible outcome. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory.
So I'll take it you don't indulge then
I'm not saying I'm totally innocent, though 99% of what I watch does come from Sky, I'm just saying that this is a possible outcome. "
I agree but as I said I'm not stopping to worry about 10 years time.....could be bloody dead then  |
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory.
So I'll take it you don't indulge then
I'm not saying I'm totally innocent, though 99% of what I watch does come from Sky, I'm just saying that this is a possible outcome.
I agree but as I said I'm not stopping to worry about 10 years time.....could be bloody dead then "
Yeah, no point in worrying about the decline in broadcasting standards, the ice caps'll have melted by then. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now?
Then we maybe be fucked.....but until then
Yeah, ten years from now, they'll be nothing to stream but rehashes of Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with... cos they can be churned out on a budget provided by what Pepsi will pay to just slap their logo in the corner of the screen, which the teenage nerd who uploaded it for you to stream will still cover up with something ironic before uploading just cos fucking with big business gets both inches of his dick hard and drama of the standard of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead will be a distant memory.
So I'll take it you don't indulge then
I'm not saying I'm totally innocent, though 99% of what I watch does come from Sky, I'm just saying that this is a possible outcome.
I agree but as I said I'm not stopping to worry about 10 years time.....could be bloody dead then
Yeah, no point in worrying about the decline in broadcasting standards, the ice caps'll have melted by then. "
Then add to that...trump,Putin, Kim so long. ....I think there's a lot more will worry me then kodi |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Upside:
Cheap access to a wide variety of content.
Downside:
Illegal to access said content.
Accessing the content isn't illegal, providing the means to access the content is illegal.
So what happens in a few years when everyone's doing this and the networks have no income from cable/satellite subscriptions or advertising and have no budget to actually make the shows and movies you're watching now? "
Don't have a go at me, I've already stated I find the quality to be shite and my go to is still DVD/Blu Ray, a Netflix subscription, a TV license and Sky HD I'm the daft fucker that still buys CDs and vinyl too while everyone else is streaming |
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