Better Alternatives to Amazon firestick

[4stang6]

What type of options are there to the firestick, What are y'all using?

 

[Catmonkey]

I did a good bit of research on this a while back and ended up with a Roku, but these devices are evolving all the time. My daughter uses the firestick and while it's adequate, it's on the lower end of the spectrum for speed. The Roku has its quirks too, but I'm happy with it. A lot will depend what you want to access.

 

[busta]

What type of options are there to the firestick, What are y'all using?

Have you side-loaded Kodi? What are you looking to do that your Firestick can't do now?

 

[chinchilla]

Most expensive, but best on the market.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/shield-tv/

 

[nxhappy]

firestick kodi, and netflix has plenty of options. Also amazon prime is pretty good. with those 3 you should be able to watch anything.

 

[Blown 89]

What are you using it for and what don't you like about the Fire Stick?

For general media consumption and games the NVIDIA Shield is the best device on the market. It has enough horsepower to function as a Plex server if need be. It might be overkill but it's hard to say without knowing what your needs are.

 

[2KBlackGT]

Yeah, need to know your intentions. Can't put Kodi on Roku, unless something has changed since the last time I checked.

I have a firestick(1st gen) in my living room with kodi and some other apps for streaming installed. I also have a Prime account. In my room I have a cheap($24.99) ebay android TV box that i bought around the same time i bought the firestick. I hasn't missed a beat and runs smoother than the firestick(1st gen). I use the same apps on both devices.

 

[Led_Zep]

Just picked up a firestick myself, going to ditch cable.

 

[4stang6]

I actually haven't purchased 1 yet, I'm just looking to see if there is other options before I purchase it...

 

[Steve@TF]

if you plan to put kodi on it i would recommend getting the fire box over the stick. i have both. 2 boxes and 1 stick. the stick has way more buffering issues than the box. and if possible, hard wire it to your router. makes it run even faster. cant hard wire a stick.

 

[SID297]

Most expensive, but best on the market.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/shield-tv/

Looks neat.

 

[RDLightning01]

Nvidia shield, and install terrarium TV, 10x better platform than kodi

 

[bigmoose]

Fire TV box here. Performance is much better then the stick. I stream Blu-ray videos from my Plex server at 20Mb to my fire TV no problem.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

Have you side-loaded Kodi? What are you looking to do that your Firestick can't do now?

firestick kodi, and netflix has plenty of options. Also amazon prime is pretty good. with those 3 you should be able to watch anything.

Ps:

Get rid of Kodi. There are multiple lawsuits going on with Kodi, and internet companies trying to find out which people are using it, and sending nice little notes about it.

As said above Terrarium TV > Kodi ( for now)

 

[helloWorld]

I have a Roku, no complaints at all.

But I will definitely look into this Terrarium TV.

 

[ViciousJay]

Torrent your stuff and create a PLEX server, done and done!

 

[IronSnake]

Torrent your stuff and create a PLEX server, done and done!

We have a plex server as well. I second this

 

[03Sssnake]

another vote on plex, run one at the house in addition to using Terrarium TV.

 

[Blown 89]

Ps:

Get rid of Kodi. There are multiple lawsuits going on with Kodi, and internet companies trying to find out which people are using it, and sending nice little notes about it.

As said above Terrarium TV > Kodi ( for now)

The lawsuit is against two add-ons, don't install those two add-ons, problem solved. Let's not fear monger here.

 

[busta]

What add-ons would that happen to be? I use Convenant, I'm sure that's one of them.