What have you just bought?

[Mr K]

Car insurance, £230, this year, was £490 a couple of years ago, nothings changed. I must now be seen as very boring

[thenry]

Another £7.50 bonus on Quidco £15 spend + 11.2% cashback on AliExpress. I brought disposable air fryer liners, wristbands, a Pixel 6 Pro case and these laundry washing balls that apparently work in the washing machine we'll see I guess.

£20.23 - £7.50 - £1.10 - £0.17 - £0.21 - £0.34 = £10.91 bargain

[SnoopZ]

I'm stocked up on an Amazon Fire stick Max,even though I don't need it this version of hardware allows me to side load my BeeTV app and it's on offer at £40 from Amazon.

From 14th October future versions of Fire sticks won't allow side loading because they will use a different Operating System.

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Originally Posted by thenry

Another £7.50 bonus on Quidco £15 spend + 11.2% cashback on AliExpress. I brought disposable air fryer liners, wristbands, a Pixel 6 Pro case and these laundry washing balls that apparently work in the washing machine we'll see I guess.

£20.23 - £7.50 - £1.10 - £0.17 - £0.21 - £0.34 = £10.91 bargain

Not bad, would you have normally bought all that stuff though?

[thenry]

Yes

I brought a 4k Max 6E 2nd generation yesterday with a pro remote. My aunty has my 4K max 1st generation stick which she rarely uses but I'm happy even if she uses in once in a blue moon. I'm thinking of giving the 6E to my dad. I have a Nvidia shield so allowing family to use my devices is kind of like safe keeping

I wonder what stock levels are like of the remaining android based 4k max sticks.

Many were concerned Amazon would push vega os to all its models

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by thenry

Yes

I brought a 4k Max 6E 2nd edition yesterday with a pro remote. My aunty has my 4K max 1st edition stick which she rarely uses but I'm happy even if she uses in once in a blue moon. I'm thinking of giving the 6E to my dad. I have a Nvidia shield so allowing family to use my devices is kind of like safe keeping

I wonder what stock levels are like of the remaining android based 4k max sticks.

Many were concerned Amazon would push vega os to all its models

Bad time to buy Prime Day next week unless it was an early deal ?

I do not think Vega will be backwards compatible tbh but even if it is someone will code apps for it unless they lock it down tight. If they do sales will plummet and people will just use cheap android boxes . Just need to find a brand thats been tested for malware

TBH a couple of weeks ago I bought a refurb mini PC for very little outlay which would be an option then also . Who know Kodi might get popular again if something like this happens and I can go back to being a Dev hahahaa

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

Bad time to buy Prime Day next week unless it was an early deal ?

I've dodged that bullet ever since joining Amazon, the prime nonsense. I should have said sorry I purchased the 4k max 6e 2nd generation on vinted. With the pro remote £15 + postage £3.15. the seller couldn't get his head around the fire stick so gave up. Good as new I think.

[Jaymoss]

another bargain

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

I do not think Vega will be backwards compatible tbh but even if it is someone will code apps for it unless they lock it down tight. If they do sales will plummet and people will just use cheap android boxes . Just need to find a brand thats been tested for malware

TBH a couple of weeks ago I bought a refurb mini PC for very little outlay which would be an option then also . Who know Kodi might get popular again if something like this happens and I can go back to being a Dev hahahaa

I thought Amazon knowingly plugged the gap in the market. It's funny what pressure does to people. I heard livenettv got blocked.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by thenry

I thought Amazon knowingly plugged the gap in the market. It's funny what pressure does to people. I heard livenettv got blocked.

There are things to do that stops Amazons blacklisting. I have not done anything with mine except use it to test Plex and watch its normal apps but downloader is still available so any other APK can be installed as long as blacklisting is disabled. All addons like livenet beetv cinemahd and so on are scraper apps so basically all the do is hunt known hosting sites for links and plays them so they are all pretty much the same as long as kept up to date.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

From 14th October future versions of Fire sticks won't allow side loading because they will use a different Operating System.

Their loss.
People will just start using android TV boxes instead.
As far as I can see, the only advantage firesticks ever had was their size.
I dumped them for android boxes many years ago.

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by thenry

Yes

I brought a 4k Max 6E 2nd generation yesterday with a pro remote. My aunty has my 4K max 1st generation stick which she rarely uses but I'm happy even if she uses in once in a blue moon. I'm thinking of giving the 6E to my dad. I have a Nvidia shield so allowing family to use my devices is kind of like safe keeping

I wonder what stock levels are like of the remaining android based 4k max sticks.

Many were concerned Amazon would push vega os to all its models

Do you use and pay for an IPTV service on it? I'm about to venture into that area as I've done my research and will give it ago, I'm not planning on getting it from a reseller I'm going direct to a source and will sort it myself.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Paul

Their loss.
People will just start using android TV boxes instead.
As far as I can see, the only advantage firesticks ever had was their size.
I dumped them for android boxes many years ago.

Main issue with Android boxes is dodgy payloads at a firmware level . What boxes do you have out of interest? I spent a lot of time in the streaming community with kodi iptv and boxes and a lot of them were found to have malware. Linus Tech Tips did a lot of research on it a couple of years ago|

Their market share will plummet I imagine once none Vega devices become obsolete and unavailable

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Do you use and pay for an IPTV service on it? I'm about to venture into that area as I've done my research and will give it ago, I'm not planning on getting it from a reseller I'm going direct to a source and will sort it myself.

where you gonna find one of them ? I do not think I have ever found someone who was not a restreamer or reseller. I got quite close one and was offered a panel and a lot of tokens/credits for a stupidly silly cheap price but do not want the hassle of having to keep finding new clients. If you find one let me know hahaa

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[thenry]

Yes let me know as well doggy. I'm interested in what you manage to sniff out

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Do you use and pay for an IPTV service on it? I'm about to venture into that area as I've done my research and will give it ago, I'm not planning on getting it from a reseller I'm going direct to a source and will sort it myself.

Yes. I have a provider. I've found one that doesn't run away. I've been with them ever since streaming started.

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

What boxes do you have out of interest?

My main one is an X96Q (about 18 months old now).
The other is an A95X from the summer of 2019, thats not used often now.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Paul

My main one is an X96Q (about 18 months old now).
The other is an A95X from the summer of 2019, thats not used often now.

Had a few of the A95X go through my hands at one point. Had a Mi box too that was quite decent :-)