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I was impatient and pulled the trigger on a Chromecast. I have a Roku, as well so it seemed like the Firestick overlapped with that too much. Didn't really matter because I just listened to Spotify all night, which my receiver supports natively. 
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KillHour posted:I was impatient and pulled the trigger on a Chromecast. I have a Roku, as well so it seemed like the Firestick overlapped with that too much. I got my Stick for dirt cheap during that promo period so I don't feel bad about not using it. I got the Jackbox for it though so I just think of it as another board game that happens to plug into a TV.
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Mar 18, 2015 16:03
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Man, I'm about to give up on Plex for the Stick. It's such a stuttery piece of poo poo. I can't get through one movie or TV episode without it freezing up and having to go back to the Plex menu. And what really kills me is it works perfectly on every other platform except the Stick. Back to Kodi it is!
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Mar 18, 2015 16:41
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I got the Stick a few days ago and have been using Plex until I get around to putting Kodi on it. I've watched two 1 hour TV shows and just tested out a movie for about 5 min and haven't had any problems. Everything is 1080. Could have just been lucky so far since I've only used it for a whole 2 hours. Also ordered 2 fire TV boxes but they wont be in stock for about a week according to amazon.
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Mar 18, 2015 17:42
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HBO Go is out for the stick now without having to side load anything. The menu is a little leggy, but video is fine.
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Mar 23, 2015 03:00
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Malt posted:HBO Go is out for the stick now without having to side load anything. The menu is a little leggy, but video is fine. No Comcast of course. Godddddddamnit.
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Mar 23, 2015 03:04
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What are my options for watching porn on this thing the pornhub app doesn't work
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Mar 23, 2015 17:25
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Gyshall posted:What are my options for watching porn on this thing if we're being serious you could try downloading porn and using plex to watch it or something.
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Mar 23, 2015 17:30
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havenwaters posted:if we're being serious you could try downloading porn and using plex to watch it or something. Videodevil, dogsie All the fuk and suk vids you can handle.
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Mar 23, 2015 17:53
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I'm having issues with my Fire TV being really slow connection speed wise. Everything buffers every 3s for about 15s. My Chromecasts work fine on the same TV connected to the same network.
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Mar 23, 2015 18:06
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I don't know if this guy's sources are solid but...AFTVNews posted:It’s been 4 months since the Fire TV received a software update that added new functionality. The last two updates have consisted only of bug fixes. Well, the drought of new Fire TV features is about to come to an end. My sources at Amazon tell me the next Fire TV software update, dubbed the “connectivity” update, should begin rolling out to select devices tomorrow, March 24. As always, the update will first begin arriving on a small subset of devices before ramping up and making its way to all Fire TVs.
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Mar 23, 2015 22:44
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Call Me Charlie posted:I don't know if this guy's sources are solid but... USB drive support would be huge for me. I've been going round and round over the best setup to host and stream files to Kodi on the FireTV. Currently I've got an external drive connected through a Time Capsule that is then connected to our FIOS router. Which is all much more convoluted than it needs to be. I've been waffling over transitioning everything over to a basic NAS or something a bit more robust and dedicated, but if I can just connect the external directly to the FireTV, I would be stoked.
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Mar 23, 2015 22:56
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Wouldn't mind a web browser, seeGyshall posted:What are my options for watching porn on this thing
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Mar 23, 2015 23:49
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USB drive support is the only feature missing that I care about, it will let me throw all of my roms onto a thumb drive or something. I've really wanted a cheap all in one unit for Netflix/Kodi/emulators for awhile now.
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Mar 24, 2015 00:40
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If it could work with a USB hub so I could keep my wireless keyboard and a big fat USB drive at the same time, that would be tits for stuff like emulation.
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Yeah if they put in native USB drive support I don't see any reason for me to keep root.
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Mar 24, 2015 01:14
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Gyshall posted:Wouldn't mind a web browser, see You can already sideload any android web browser you want on it. (but seriously, videodevil is the bees knees when it comes to porn)
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Amazon released a press release.quote:Amazon today announced new features are coming to the best-selling Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. These features will be delivered as part of a free, over-the-air software update in the coming weeks. Amazon also announced today that Fire TV Stick is now available in the UK and Germany, joining the #1-selling streaming media box, Amazon Fire TV. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2028097
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Mar 24, 2015 16:04
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USB support and official Kodi in the app store? FireTV just became the ultimate HTPC. Can you share the USB drive for easy transferring of files?
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Call Me Charlie posted:You can already sideload any android web browser you want on it. (but seriously, videodevil is the bees knees when it comes to porn) You are correct, video devil is great. Just set Kodi up last night, wow.
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TraderStav posted:USB support and official Kodi in the app store? FireTV just became the ultimate HTPC. Can you share the USB drive for easy transferring of files? Agreed. Only issue with the FireTV is just am android issue and that is no framerate switching from 60. I can deal with that and usually don't notice it too much.
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KKKLIP ART posted:Agreed. Only issue with the FireTV is just am android issue and that is no framerate switching from 60. I can deal with that and usually don't notice it too much. Currently, I have Plex running on my iMac with a 5TB USB External plugged into it having CouchPotato and Sickbeard drop everything onto it. I have two FireTVs and a Roku stick (aside from tablets/phones which are used irregularly) to play Netflix/Plex on the various TVs. I think my only gap would be getting the USB content hooked up to one of the FireTVs to the Roku. Should I expect any performance issues with running 1080p movies hosted on one of the FireTVs to another FireTV as long are both hardwired?
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Kodi in the app store says its not compatible with my FireTV?
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FogHelmut posted:Kodi in the app store says its not compatible with my FireTV? Buy it, launch your sideloaded Kodi and a Kodi icon should show up in the recent list. It's hit and miss with the Fire TV Stick but it's worked perfectly with the Fire TV.
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Mar 24, 2015 20:07
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You can also go to Settings => My Account => Sync Amazon Content and that helped Kodi show up for me.
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I got the Kodi app on my android phone from the Amazon store, went home, and it was on my FireTV without doing anything. Some people seem to have no problems and others it just doesn't work right.
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quote:Quickly put your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick to sleep or enable display mirroring by pressing and holding the Home button on your remote. I remember the sleep thing was a sticking point for a few people so there you go.
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Anyone else have problems with Netflix on the stick? Every 20 seconds or so, the video will hang and then play really fast until it's caught up with the audio, which never slows or stops.
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Mar 25, 2015 23:42
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Call Me Charlie posted:Amazon released a press release. 
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Mar 25, 2015 23:46
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Time to blow up hotel wifi with Netflix streaming. No more tethering to my phone! Yes it was possible with a sideloaded browser, bluetooth KB/mouse/etc. But a hassle. Just sign right in and burn bandwidth. The Firestick just got a lot more logical for travel!
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the littlest prince posted:Anyone else have problems with Netflix on the stick? Every 20 seconds or so, the video will hang and then play really fast until it's caught up with the audio, which never slows or stops. I had this happen on my big fire quite often, but it seems to have stopped recently so I don't know whether a Amazon update or a Netflix update fixed it.
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hotsauce posted:Time to blow up hotel wifi with Netflix streaming. No more tethering to my phone! I think the bigger issue is getting a hotel TV that let's you plug something into the HDMI port, or doesn't have a locked down remote. I guess if you're already packing the Fire TV, you have room in your bag for a $5 universal remote.
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FogHelmut posted:I think the bigger issue is getting a hotel TV that let's you plug something into the HDMI port, or doesn't have a locked down remote. I guess if you're already packing the Fire TV, you have room in your bag for a $5 universal remote. Every HDMI port I've tried works fine. I'm in hotels every week. Also, Note 4 IR blaster let's you in to the TV menu system just fine. 
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Do you bring a laptop with you to these hotels? I'm not trying to be a smartass at all, but I'm wondering why you couldn't just bring along an HDMI cable and plug your laptop into the hotel tv and not have to screw with anything else. I could see if you want to watch something while working on your laptop but I was curious if you had other reasons. I know there's a ton of stuff that only works or works best on a streaming device vs a straight up laptop with a browser but I can't think of many that would impact hotel life. However I can see how super easy it would be to throw a Roku/Fire/etc stick in a bag (or even a full blown Roku 3 since it's so small) and leave it there until you needed it without ever having to mess with the laptop/tablet/phone/other option. Random question too since I only use a Roku and an HTPC. Is there anything any streaming device can do to change regions in Netflix? (i.e. using a browser plugin in Chrome/Firefox to make it look like I'm in the UK and can watch stuff not licensed in American yet) Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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I think the biggest issue is going to be how slow the hotel wifi is. The past few I've been to have been awful. I always end up tethering to my phone (not letting go of my ATT unlimited data).
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Also if BYOStreamingStick at hotels becomes a frequent thing then they will probably start throttling that traffic to keep things usable. edit: Or start charging for "premiumum wifi".
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Anyone try the bluetooth headphones feature? That sounds sweet. The previous workaround was a hack that required XBMC to sync the audio. I am hoping there is no sync issue with any media playback, specifically Plex.
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My box is updating now but it looks like Kodi is fully compatible with it. aftv posted:The big question everyone always seems to have when a new Fire TV update rolls around is if it negatively affects Kodi in any way. You’ll be happy to hear that several people who were lucky enough to be among the first to receive the new update have chimed in to let us know that Kodi is still fully functional. You can still sideload and launch Kodi just like before. Even better is that Kodi can fully access and play media files stored on an attached USB drive (as reported by Peter, Hitcher, and Cabe). Additionally, it appears that you can move Kodi itself onto an attached USB drive, but Kodi’s data, where the large thumbnail directory is stored, does not get moved to the USB drive. Keeping the thumbnails on the Fire TV’s internal storage is ideal for smooth scrolling through your Kodi library, however it’s likely possible to move the thumbnails to USB storage as well by editing Kodi’s advanced settings. I’ll look into this further and create a guide if it is in fact possible. ---------- Stugazi posted:Anyone try the bluetooth headphones feature? That sounds sweet. The previous workaround was a hack that required XBMC to sync the audio. I am hoping there is no sync issue with any media playback, specifically Plex. I haven't tried it but it's there. "Pair, unpair and manage other Bluetooth devices including headphones, remotes, keyboards and mice" --------- Holding circle button and the home button brings this up. 
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Call Me Charlie posted:My box is updating now but it looks like Kodi is fully compatible with it. did it just do this on its own? they choose who gets it first, right?
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PuTTY riot posted:did it just do this on its own? they choose who gets it first, right? You can check for the update by going Settings -> System -> About -> Check for System Update I don't know if it was pushed out to everybody yet but that's how I did it.
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