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Old 17-08-2016, 13:08
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Someone at work has told me about the amazon fire tv stick, they said download kodi and get access to loads of channels to stream. Has anyone actually done this and if so what is it like?
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Old 17-08-2016, 13:52
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Check the many posts already on here. I did it on the Fire TV and yes it may work for you.
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Old 17-08-2016, 15:32
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I did it on two sticks, so I could access content on my NAS. Haven't played about with any of these, erm, 'questionable' streaming channels, though...

Check the many posts already on here.
That would be a lot easier for folk if they'd finally fix the ruddy search routine on here.
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Old 17-08-2016, 15:44
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I did it on two sticks, so I could access content on my NAS. Haven't played about with any of these, erm, 'questionable' streaming channels, though...



That would be a lot easier for folk if they'd finally fix the ruddy search routine on here.
I second that. I actually put in amazon fire tv stick and nothing come up.
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Old 17-08-2016, 16:04
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Apparently live sports aren't brilliant, lots of buffering etc..
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Old 18-08-2016, 00:25
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Apparently live sports aren't brilliant, lots of buffering etc..
Might be due to the lack of memory on the Fire Stick. Watching on kit with more memory would save more to the memory buffer so wouldn't have to do it as much.
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Old 18-08-2016, 08:48
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I watch it on a ps3 with rarely any buffering and superb picture quality (better than sky SD)
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Old 18-08-2016, 11:21
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I watch it on a ps3 with rarely any buffering and superb picture quality (better than sky SD)
I wanted it to watch bt sport. Guy that told me about it said he watches all latest movies but im not really bothered about watching movies on it. Would it work with ps4?
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Old 18-08-2016, 19:58
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I wanted it to watch bt sport. Guy that told me about it said he watches all latest movies but im not really bothered about watching movies on it. Would it work with ps4?
I don't see why not.
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Old 19-08-2016, 00:53
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I don't see why not.
Is there even a KODI app for PS4??

Streaming kodi to ps3 is one thing but the ps4 is a different beast altogether.
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Old 21-08-2016, 12:45
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I haven't bought fire stick because i wanted to see what PQ through kodi is like so I've tried it on pc but its just unwatchable. Picture breaking up all the time. Stream i used was supposed to the best one. If it is then I'd hate to think what others are like.
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Old 21-08-2016, 13:07
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silly me ignore
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Old 21-08-2016, 13:24
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I use my fire tv stick in my bedroom all of the time i get perfect 1080p via kodi plex and netflix its most likely to be an issues with your wifi connection stream provider or an issue with your fire tv stick
I don't have a fire stick.
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Old 21-08-2016, 13:28
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Sorry Matt i misread the post and edited it
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Old 21-08-2016, 15:32
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I haven't bought fire stick because i wanted to see what PQ through kodi is like so I've tried it on pc but its just unwatchable. Picture breaking up all the time. Stream i used was supposed to the best one. If it is then I'd hate to think what others are like.

I'm guessing you were watching a dodgy stream via Kodi as there isn't a BT Sport addon for it, this would be why it was unwatchable.

As far as BT sports via a PC or Fire Stick there is no comparison, watching the BT Sports Windows app gives me one of the best online streaming pictures I've ever seen (as I've posted about elsewhere on the forum), on the Fire TV Stick its not officially available but quite easy to sideload the Android app onto it, whilst it works well without a hint of buffering the picture quality is several steps down from its Windows counterpart.
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Old 21-08-2016, 15:49
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I'm guessing you were watching a dodgy stream via Kodi as there isn't a BT Sport addon for it, this would be why it was unwatchable.

As far as BT sports via a PC or Fire Stick there is no comparison, watching the BT Sports Windows app gives me one of the best online streaming pictures I've ever seen (as I've posted about elsewhere on the forum), on the Fire TV Stick its not officially available but quite easy to sideload the Android app onto it, whilst it works well without a hint of buffering the picture quality is several steps down from its Windows counterpart.
I assume you have to be a bt subscriber which I'm not.
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Old 22-08-2016, 16:45
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subscribe to a paid sports sub on kodi and you'll be loving it..free ones are pretty poor when a match is on as more people watch and overlaod the servers.
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