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Can anyone recommend the best android box or is a fire stick ok?
I want to view formula one channel only really and maybe my 7 year old watch an animated film. I don't trust eBay on this type of thing or amazon come to that.
Thanks for your help.
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ide???? are you shitting me?
I use kodi on my phone these days and just cast my screen to the tele, works great.
nexbox a95x £20-25 from amazon or ebay. OR you could buy the same thing from gumtree or facebook for £80
Alpin what's up??
According to this, a NowTV box will do what you want:
http://www.nowtv.com/sports/formula1
I've got NowTV (on a Roku 3) but I don't have a sports pass, so have no idea if this would work or not.
Nvidia Shield gets a massive recommendation. It IS the best Android tv box.
oldnpastit you are missing the point that an android box means you watch for free, nowtv requires a subscription.
OP you don't need a box if you can connect your computer to the tv (or use phone/tablet as above). Otherwose google "m8s tv box" and buy from Amazon ?
Alpin what's up??
It is because it is I'd and not Ide. He is alpin your grammar & spelling.
I recommend an android box, they can do much more stuff.
Unless he is asking on behalf of a fish....?
nowtv requires a subscription.
My understanding was that Now TV required a subscription that you can immediately cancel and watch free stuff for, uh, free?
My understanding was that Now TV required a subscription that you can immediately cancel and watch free stuff for, uh, free?
You won't get F1 for free though.
The OP is asking for info on hooky TV boxes for free streams.
According to my phone news. Someone around Newcastle area is appearing in the high court accused of selling TV boxes with Kodi and the dodgy links installed.
Depending on the outcome, Kodi might be classed as illegal,
I would get one quick just incase.
Quick edit. They were being sold from the bay apparently.
Kodi is very useful, legitimate software. Unfortunately some people are ripping it off, and selling it with crappy add-ons for pirate content (which usually don't work).
https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/
bear-uk - Member
According to my phone news. Someone around Newcastle area is appearing in the high court accused of selling TV boxes with Kodi and the dodgy links installed.
Depending on the outcome, Kodi might be classed as illegal,
no [i][b]selling[/b][/i] kodi will be classed as illegal, installing it yourself, not so.
Kodi is legitimate software. Regardless of the outcome, selling Kodi [i]shouldn't [/i]become illegal, rather the selling of piracy plugins should.
I say "shouldn't" rather than absolutely "won't" though, because I have little faith in non-technical judges and MPs to sufficiently recognise the difference. There's a possibility that Kodi will be guilty via association.
Also interested in buying one of these - is there a minimum memory size to ensure smooth operation? The nexbox mentioned up there has three options on the amazon site.
I had a 1Gb one a while back. It was *okay* but ideally you'd want 2Gb minimum to stop the thing having conniptions every time you try to change channel.
I just do Netflix and NowTV now.
Beware the Ides of March.
@bear the problem is they where selling the kodi box with the links pre-installed. The box and kodi are legal. Installing links to watch content for free may not be. For example wathing bbc/channel 4/itv is ok if you have a tv licence. You can use a kodi box for streaming YouTube to your tv. Watching Sky Sports without a subscription is not legal.
jambalaya - Member
@bear Installing links to watch content for free may not be.
Nah, it's the act of selling or sharing it that's illegal. If watching the links was illegal plenty of people would have been doen for it. They haven't.
What I meant seaso is watching (say) Sky without a subscription [b]is illegal[/b]. Kodi is free anyway so no one is selling that, ditto the links/hosting sites. The Newcastle guy is being prosecuted for selling the Android Box with preloaded software which allows illegal streaming.
People have not been "done" for streaming as there are now 10's if not 100's of thousands doing that so going after the end user has become pointless.
jambalaya - MemberPeople have not been "done" for streaming as there are now 10's if not 100's of thousands doing that so going after the end user has become pointless.
I think it is legally dubious, as to prove someone has been watching "illegally" would involve illegal surveillance that the entertainment industry doesn't, and shouldn't have.
That's why they haven't gone after individuals imo, it'd backfire spectacularly.
Put it this way, if they thought they could do it, cleanly, they would, a few hundred convictions would scare off hundreds of thousands. So no need to physically go after the many.
Didn't they try that with music downloading, a few legal cases then they just gave up and focused on the download sites.
IMO a content provider like Sky could get a disclosure order from an ISP
I set up loads of firesticks for friends and family with SMBC or Kodi(no charge they just buy the box/stick) its really easy so many guides on web inbox me if you want some. I pay for my sports 26 quid every 6 months but for that i get 720 ish fault free streams of every footy game , ppv event ,skysports etc + any movie for free .. again its frowned on to put links or details here but feel free to message me.
Didn't they try that with music downloading, a few legal cases then they just gave up and focused on the download sites.
It's the same with anything. Like, there are plenty of drugs that it's illegal to possess / use, but the police are far more interested in busting international dealers shifting millions of pounds' worth of gear than they are collaring Mike at number 36 who's got a 'teenth in his pocket.
IMO a content provider like Sky could get a disclosure order from an ISP
They could certainly try. Whether they would succeed is highly debatable, any major ISP in the UK would tell them to jog on (and Sky surely know this given that they're an ISP themselves). It's been tried in the past without success, I'd wager that it'll never happen without a change to national legislation.
Whether Sky (TV) would ever try and access Sky (ISP) data is an interesting quandary, mind. They may well be different "companies" internally, but going after their own customers might not be the wisest financial move a company could make. Better for them to take the hit on a few people watching Sky Sports illegally than to drive away swathes of existing paying customers.
jambalaya - Member
Didn't they try that with music downloading, a few legal cases
Was there though? I just remember a few headlines in the daily mail and the likes, nothing particular concrete. Was anyone ever convicted of downloading(without sharing)? Cases I remember all involved bit torrent, which is two way, sharing and downloading. Which is why I think they went after them, ie they could get them on the sharing aspect.
Happy for someone to chip in with some concrete evidence there, as I'm just relying on a vague memory.
I'm just relying on a vague memory
Me too. I do recall a teenager taken to court for downloading 1000's of songs. Pointless really.
AFAIK downloading is definitely illegal, streaming there is some ambiguity.