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New shield being shipped today. Excited to get it and should be here in a few days hoping all goes well.
If you could post a review of your experience with it, that would be great for everyone on the thread. I'm interested to hear what the model is like and what improvements have been made (along with any issues, of course). Hope you enjoy it anyway!
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Amazon just gave me a .04c refund
Apologies for being a pedant... but i'm presuming you mean 4c or €.04 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
I really can't help myself
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Apologies for being a pedant... but i'm presuming you mean 4c or €.04 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
I really can't help myself
In order to answer your query effectively, I'd need to f0 -
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Heraldoffreeent wrote: »As for Aliexpress, I've bought stuff off them as well, but they're just a platform like ebay, you could buy the same thing from multiple vendors there, its just a matter of picking a seller who has been around for a few years and has decent rep.
On the substantive issue though, I'm coming around to the idea of these things being almost disposable after a period of one to two years.
With backing up to an SD card and using Trakt, I can set up a new box in about 5 minutes and have my "build", and i use that term in the basest sense, installed on it.
Yeah, I think it was Ali Express. Ended up being a clone that didn't last a wet week. Never again!
I don't know why you would say that, I've had my box (Minix) nearly 3 years now and it still works absolutely perfectly and I hope to get another year or more out of it yet.....at least!
I would also definitely recommend that everyone sorts out a Trakt account (it's free and will save you a lot of time and frustration in the future) while you should backup your "bulid" every couple of months (so that you have an up to date version) and it's great for when you have to update the box or change boxes, update the progam etc. You've got the right idea there.
I brought it out last week and it worked fine, its roughly the same distance as where the other one is. Probably a different story if both boxes were running tho.
Its €130 now on amazon which is more than I paid a few weeks ago and without the extra remote. I don't think I'd pay that price so I'll hold off a while and see.
The performance would depend on the speed of your broadband, how many devices were using it at the same time and what they were using it for. No, you're definitely right to hold as I think that it's overpriced at €130 as well, but, as I said before, I don't see it going much below €100....Would like to hear any recommendations for a Kodi box for about £30 on Amazon. Thanks.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superview-Mini-M8S-Pro-T95N/dp/B01HP0DPL8/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1484920232&sr=1-2&keywords=Mini+M8S
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zenoplige-Android-Marshmallow-Miracast-Streaming/dp/B01N3OM15Q/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1484917483&sr=1-8&keywords=android+tv+box+android
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bqeel-Chipset-Quad-Softwarwe-Loaded-Support-Ultra-Fast/dp/B01L72ZBDK/ref=pd_vtph_23_bs_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BSYWGNR68QDTJPNAH5KM
I'd recommend that you save your money and don't go near any of those boxes as they are absolute rubbish! As has been pointed out, you get what you pay for and Bazz has given some very helpful and useful advice which will save you a lot of time and money....
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BandMember wrote: »
I'd recommend that you save your money and don't go near any of those boxes as they are absolute rubbish! As has been pointed out, you get what you pay for and Bazz has given some very helpful and useful advice which will save you a lot of time and money....
Wouldn't agree from my experience, I got my first box for 25 quid and still does the job......not as fast or as nice looking as my new box but that cost considerably more ......it's a roll of the dice with any of these boxes I'd say, you could go cheap and have no trouble or no end of trouble ....the same applies to a much more expensive one.......as a first box for experimenting I'd recommend going cheaper0 -
batistuta9 wrote: »Why do you recommend trakt?
That would be an ecumenical matter that can't be discussed in detail here. However, if you do a quick Google search and know what it is, you'll quickly see why people should use it...sonofenoch wrote: »Wouldn't agree from my experience, I got my first box for 25 quid and still does the job......not as fast or as nice looking as my new box but that cost considerably more ......it's a roll of the dice with any of these boxes I'd say, you could go cheap and have no trouble or no end of trouble ....the same applies to a much more expensive one.......as a first box for experimenting I'd recommend going cheaper
As has been said by a number of posters, set it up on your laptop/tablet/phone first, get used to it there and play around with it there rather than wasting your money on a box. You might be lucky with a cheap box, but the odds are not in your favour. My own opinion is that, especially where people are new to this or not very tech savvy, if you start off with a crap box that never works or has nothing but problems, you're very likely to dismiss the whole thing as a load of rubbish and just forget about it. That's the reason why the posters here recommend the high end boxes so that, hopefully, the users first experience will be a good one.
Also, regardless of price, those last two boxes are 8GB and 1GB boxes - NEVER buy any box with those specs as you're basically buying a paperweight. Or a beermat. Take your pick....
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My Shield just arrived :-)
Got mine too, had a quick play.it updated itself, I setup Plex and when I returned, it was stuck in a loop displaying "system Ui has stopped"
Hadn't much time to spend with it, but could not see how to reset it.
All online instructions re. "reset", mentions holding down a power button, but this new shield doesn't have one.
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