Phynaz
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Love mine, no issues streaming with it.
Since this post I've given up on the stick devices. Bought a Roku 3 and gave them all away.
The sticks are just too under powered.
Love mine, no issues streaming with it.
I bought an amazon stick in attempt to get a better plex experience over my chromecast. There was something about having the whole remote control UI driven interface on the tv that I really liked. Unfortunately in the end it was plex that was flawed.
And yea the whole reason plex broke down was because transcoding was required because these sticks are underpowered. And that is understandable, as long as you stay in the realm of their purpose they work perfect. Online streaming services? Your golden! Asking it to play your library of offline movies you downloaded and are in several formats? Not so much.
I like my amazon but it sits in its box now. Hopefully I can give it a good home.
Well their newer stick is over a year old now. Aside from user experience issues due to UI design, it doesn't really have a major hardware/performance flaw as far as I know.I have had a Roku 3 for a couple years now. Picked up a firestick the other month as per my gf's request so we could use Kodi. We use the stick for Kodi and Netflix and I don't see any slowness or quality issues with either service on the stick. I was expecting to though.
Yes, especially since they don't play Youtube anymore, if you are into that. Thanks Google >(
Hey old man river. It ain't 1963 anymore and "the Zenith that rested on the floor" that you're pining over because of some nostalgia from your youth are relics of an era long gone. Whats next? You gonna wax on about how they don't make peddle cars like they used to or how the "american dream is dead"....please.My Amazon firetv stick and remote are both redacted! Now for those of too young to remember, I'd like to tell you a short story of how things were when I was a youngster, Paleolithic Era. TV was very large pieces of furniture which rested on the floor and almost never moved. They were built in the USA in things called factories, where men and women (or Ladies, as they were called). All television was broadcast with an analog system, the signal was received by an antenna usually attached to the roof. There was a box on top with a dial that rotated the antenna to get the best reception depending on where the transmitting station was. Only father's were permitted to perform this task, if he was not home, whichever kid won the fight. Our TV was a Zenith 27" that lasted over 25!!!YES 25 YEARS!!.When it did go the fritz, rarely, a TV repairman in only a few minutes for a nominal fee. Additionally, it had amazing color, early Color TV broadcasts were in extraordinary bright,vibrant colors, watch an episode of the original star trek. A little bit much today but compared to b&w,it was WOW! Invite the neighbors over.
Enough, glorious nostalgia; fast forward to 2018, I'm grown up , I have a wife & every year I but a new flat screen and extra remote to replace to the "what's pride in your work?" Chinese garbage I boughjugge previous year. This is a redacted state of affairs for the USA to be in. The phony 25,000 plus stock market is money a mirage. Where are the American Factory's churning out exports? They don't exist. Awake from your slumber there is a tsunami heading our way.
Absolutely not. I'm a network guy and the problems I described could not be attributed to the router or range. I used multiple high-quality routers. Some first-gen Amazon Fire TV Stick devices were simply garbage. The problem with the remote control misinterpreting skips as rewind/fast-forward was absolutely infuriating.Any issues with your Firestick have to do with your garbage Router, or the distance between router and Firestick.
Absolutely not. I'm a network guy and the problems I described could not be attributed to the router or range. I used multiple high-quality routers. Some first-gen Amazon Fire TV Stick devices were simply garbage. The problem with the remote control misinterpreting skips as rewind/fast-forward was absolutely infuriating.
First-generation stick?And mine suddenly lost the ability to wifi