Can anyone post of give some pointers how to get started with an NEW Android TV box from Amazon..
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what make and model and how old is it
@Goldenrod knows lot about these boxes. perhaps he would point you in the right direction
There are all kinds of good android boxes but none are as good as the Nvidia Shield - it was made for TV but you can install anything on it with Google store or a USB drive. It is a powerful little computer about 6 inches wide, 4-5 deep and 1 inch thick. It comes loaded with stuff but I can't tell you where to get IPTV as I don't like commercials, and I want everything that has ever been available at my fingertips.
I already have 100's of free good IP stations that come with the LG Nanotech TV's so if it ever went down, I have 100's of stations for free plus there is Pluto which is also free.
I use Syncler because it is by far the fastest and best on demand for movies / TV out there. The box is not cheap - I tried 4 android boxes that were good and in the 50-$100 range, believe the Shield is $150 and is light years faster and the set up is intuitive and easy to use. Like gaming - it even comes with a joystick and you can play online shooter or whatever game you want.
Syncler right now - hassle free for one year to be shared among up to 3-5 people is around $40 (they send you a code - and you have to know where to go buy one). You will need to go to Real Debrid or Premiumize to buy a subscription which is around 13 euros for 6 months, and I have a VPN on all devices. Real Debrid and Premiumize cache all shows so it is fast but like everything free - every once in a while a link is dead so you pick one of the other 100's. It has 4K, 1080P, 720P, etc. and are all marked accordingly by best to worst.
Overall after the box, I have every TV show or movie I want for less than $100 per year. Once Sycler is set up - you just go to search, hit the button and say the show you want, it prints it and searches and shows you every tv show or movie with that name.
It is set up just like Netflix but faster and cues the second episode for you in advance and keeps track of everything you watch and where you stopped so you can go back. Plus it has 100 times the content of Netflix.
It is not easy to set up. They just ran like the 10th (guess) beta release (there is a stable working regular release) which is just a wonderful program but you have to enter the sources to pick up the streams for the shows. Troypoint is a great website to get started and facebook has several pages dedicated to help.
If you get approved as as beta member they have a chat group, that people answer all your questions. I set up the system years ago and never had to make one change, it will auto update for you. Once set up, you are good - as your subscriptions expire for your code or Real Debrid, etc. - you just go to the website and buy another. Go back to the program and enter the section in options for real debrid. Once set up a monkey could use it but it is no easy feet to set up - expect some frustrating hours but then your set.
Weyd is good too I hear but nothing compared to Syncler from what I have seen. It is like Netflix on steroids lol. You are watching shows already played so keep in mind you may not see the show on today for hours to the next day but it will be there in your list of the shows you watch, you just click it and watch.
I believe they made purposely hard to set up at first so there won't be 10,000,000 people downloading it and creating too much publicity like TVzion did. If he charges 20 a yearly subscription but to make sure you get a legit code, there are sellers that are fraudsters - there is one guy I know that is legit and I use him - and has 1,000,000 users he just made 20,000,000 tax free.
Tried setting up something similar at home for a few international channels. The tricky part was keeping the connection stable, but using proxies made it way smoother. Ended up using them for some light data mining too, and it worked surprisingly well.
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Kodi with fen lite or crew addon plus real debrid works very well, all the movies and tv ya want. Kodi is free, real debrid is very inexpensive and a must have in conjunction with Kodi for all the quality links. Have mine setup on a firestick along with IPTV,works very well!