Re: Amazon FireTv and Firesticks
Bushay always gets defensive when something he shills is questioned. First it was smooth streams (which has gotten better) now its this new(er) one.
No I dont pay for streams and never will, dont have to. I just go by the (other) shills for anything android related so maybe their opinion is about as valid as Bushays since they all want to be the guy to bring people the next big thing. But they were all touting this one awhile ago and its pay which is something most of them dont focus on since you know the whole point of all this was cutting the cord and not paying anything. But now that streaming has become mre mainstream (pun intended) you notice how more and more of them are becoming pay also and how the prices are also starting to go up as each new and better (allegedly) 'service' comes out. Used to be 5 bucks, then it was 10 then 15 now 20. By the end of the year the so called cord cutting alternatives are going to be as expensive as the cable or satellite options are/were.
Basically anything you pay for should be decent, the difference is going to lie in the TV guide and the performance. I highly doubt ANY streaming service these days that youre paying for is going to buffer or even have less than 720 (most are 95% 1080 now) quality. FREE ones dont even buffer anymore. But whatever.
If you have a TV with it all built in its obviously going to be even better than a box or a stick. The next Gen Amazon TVs are likely to be out here shortly since Amazon put the current one on sale for 650 for the 65 in (sold out as are every dimension of the current generation) so whatever they come out with next should only be an improvement.
I basically run 4 apps still because theyre still the best and even then a couple of them are (unnecessary) back ups. Terrarium is the DVR for any and all TV shows and Movies. Livenet TV is for live TV. Redbox is just as good as LiveTV now but LiveTV is so consistent that you dont need Redbox as a back up anymore. Then you have your Twitch and Mobdro for random stuff. Then you have other decent apps like TVG (which is 'legit' and free) your Amazon Prime stuff (if you have Prime).
But really not much has changed on the FREE front in the past few months since Kodi and SPMC got their asses kicked. It is still all about the APPS now and those really haven't been improved on because there isn't much improvement on the best ones other than server issues and quality issues(for live feeds). But lazy people are still willing to pay for 'convenience' even though the price tag is going up and up.
Even more ridiculous talk from Wanti.
When I first started out with this stuff when Wanti posted he opened my eyes to a lot of stuff I wasn't even aware of. But lately I've either caught up to most of this stuff or he looks at things like no normal person would. I'll add more to this later, but this whole reply concerns WANTI and WANTI only. No normal individual sports watching, tv and movie loving person is going to go thru what he does to watch what he claims to be watching. It's all bullshit. The average guy wants to watch his sports or a new movie buffer free in a very short time from the time he sits down and turns on his tv to the time it's actually played. To do that, with minimal issues, you still need to pay a few bucks no matter what anyone says. Hell, time is money and the time Wanti spends learning, educating himself, watching a few videos here or there is all time consuming and cost him one way or another. Wanti's thing is...he thinks everyone is as smart as him and all this in the world of streaming should be absorbed as swiftly and easily as it does him. I'ver never claimed Wanti was dumb in any way shape or form. Again...he's taught me a lot in the past when he posted in this here thread, but it's just not realistic to think everyone thinks like he does and is able to process computer related stuff that's needed to enjoy streaming on a day to day basis. As Trytrytry would always put it, for him it's more of a hobby going down the different rabbit holes in some of the Kodi apps which were the only things pretty much available before the APK's like Terrarium and the pay IPTV apps came along. Cutting the cord has different expectations to many of us.
This has little to do with me getting defensive when I'm disagreed with and everything to do with someone spreading misinformation or better yet unrealistic info. I'm a guy just like anyone who wants entertainment from my tv at a low cost. There are a number of different routes to go here, IMO, the best being to pay a few bucks a month and get content your cable company would never give you number one and number two the cost would be so high you could not afford what a lot of these IPTV services offer. I've seen many of them personally. But to me, a better gauge of this is going by what some of my colleagues in this business are telling me. And they have no skin in this game because they offer them all. They all claim their customers that have problems with some of the other IPTV providers all end up at Nitro. What Nitro offers is incredible bang for your buck. And like Wanti says, they all have their issues. Nobodys getting around that. But number one you need good equipment from the get-go. Meaning a good modem and router and to pay for enough speed that doesn't cause you problems that have nothing to do with the IPTV service you're paying for. If you have 6 people living in your home, and they all have a phone, tablet, or pc and multi TVs in the house...and you don't have enough speed no. 1 coming into your home, and no. 2 a decent enough router to distribute those streams evenly, your going to have issues before you even plug your streaming device in.
Most of this is all common sense.
