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I phoned up Virgin a while ago, to cancel TV, as I thought I'd be happy with freeview and internet, however I was told I'd lose the discount I get by having, tv, phone, and internet, so it was cheaper to go to the most basic tv package than not have tv at all.

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we have the full package but the phones been unplugged for the last 6 years never had the need to use it.

and the good thing from not using it is no unwanted / nuisance phone calls.

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Is this still the case with TiVo though, now that M TV customers have to pay £5 a month for the TiVo facility?

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The bill doesn't break it down , but it's there as an item to pay for.

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firetv stick and typlayer free channels or £4,99 a month for all the premium ones

Job done for me

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Do you know of anywhere that lists the channels available on a Fire TV stick?

I can find plenty of reviews for it, but not what channels are actually available!

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The "channels" available are whatever apps provide. So you've got your iplayers and 4od's and that, whatever NowTV gives you, whatever netflix gives you, etc.

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You can root the stick and install all kinds of dodgy streaming apps on it, so the sky's the limit.

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Fire Sticks are pretty rubbish, you're handicapped significantly by Amazon and the hardware specs pretty basic too, better to get an Android box and get those dodgy apps loaded ;)

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i got rid of TV saving me £11 a month and went to Freesat.

I only watch BBC and ITV and most of that is on Catchup TV players.

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Balderdash, you're not restricted by Amazon at all, you can install any apps you want from outside Amazon's own store. That's all those other Android boxes do and Amazon's fork of Android is no different.

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LOl you're having a laugh, Amazon are making it very hard to sideload apps that aren't their own, as it's not in Amazons interests, plus the things only got 0.5 GB usable RAM for a few quid more you can get a proper non affiliated to anyone android box and load what you want. They also removed Kodi from their app store, wonder why that was... oh wait, it's not Amazons.

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Still think that it would be useful to be able to access each others TiVos- I could watch a film that I forgot to record, whilst they could access mine for an episode of a drama that they missed where no alternative showing is scheduled.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...-customer.html

Is this how Plex works?

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Go to Settings > System > Developer Options > Enable “Apps from Unknown Sources”

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2016/04/3.jpg

A tickbox is all that stops you from sideloading whatever the hell you want. Very hard.

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More or less. Plex is cool, you set it up on the machine that has all your media and then any other plex app can log in and view it. It'll transcode the media if it needs to and stream it over LAN or internet.

That said, it has its flaws as well. When inside my network, I prefer good ol' Kodi to watch the stuff on my server, but outside the network Plex is by far the easiest.