Yes, well-used! Good to have especially if you like watching movies and tv series. Worth every penny.
Kodi is a media streamer and player, no need to record if you have this installed in your fire stick. Let's say you wanted to watch episode 1 of season 1 of Sherlock. You simply go to the TV series section and click on the program you want to watch. There's loads of builds to choose from.
do they have a remote controller ? only i'm getting seriously hacked off with talk talk and want to stop renting their tv box.
Had a firestick for a few months for my 65th birthday and even after paying 79 quid myself for amazon prime I reckon I got heck of a bargain. Watch lots of movies and buy a fair amount of stuff from amazon and with prime I dont get charged delivery. Plus I get oodles of free cloud storage. Well worth the initial outlay.
I have a full Fire TV box second generation and a Prime subscription, your post prompted me to see if I could install Kodi, it's a bit long winded but it is fairly straight forward to do, just Google it, I'm not going to provide links as what Kodi 'potentially' allows you to do is 'potentially' extremely illegal, while Kodi itself is not illegal what you 'can' do with it is. Anyway it is easy to install. I find the quality of video processing and the bit rate they send to the Fire TV box to be really excellent much better than, for example, Sky standard HD broadcast quality, I am currently watching Interstellar which has just been added to Prime and the picture is far far better than anytime I have tried to watch this movie previously on any other service. The 4K processing on Clarkson, Hammond and May's 'The Grand Tour' is just amazing as is the cinematography.
so --whats the most cost effective gizmo i can buy--just want to be able to watch earlier programmes so i dont have to record. i had a hard drive / dvd recorder--but that gave up the ghost long ago. not that i ever recorded much on it. i dont want to pay anything for fillums--most are utter crap---and certainly not sports. or soaps. or jungle game shows or talentless shows. quite happy with homes under the hammer. good tv drama. masterchef. anything to do with railways.
You want Kodi in that case, Fire TV stick will do it but you will have to go through some technical trauma installing it, and you will need to get one of the free add-ons that does all the "don't wan't to pay stuff". I pay for Amazon and for Netflix and for Sky, I don't really need Kodi but sometimes it is useful.
i'm just totally fed up with talk talk. endless how are you today phone calls--then telling me theres something wrong with my computer and its going to crash their system or something. then if i say theres nothing wrong--they hang up. several times a day sometimes. been going on for months.
To be clear Kodi is just a program a piece of free software, you download and install it onto the hardware you want to use, Fire TV, Android TV, your PC, your Android tablet or phone, it runs on most hardware these days.
This NOT Talk Talk ringing you, they are trying to gain access to you computer. Your computer will NEVER crash any system. This has happened to several people I know and in some case Money has been taken from their bank accounts. They gain access so they can "Test" by getting you to install some software.
Totally agree, there are many reports of people being scammed by these fraudsters. From Talk Talk's own website: Scam phone calls. From "This is Money": Beware the scammers who claim to be from TalkTalk.
yep--a friend told me the same. one indian woman said she was from BT. another from microsoft. yet another passed me over to a manager. they all wanted me to start messing about with my laptop settings. i refused--saying if theres a problem--its with their router. i wonder if all the "call center" chatter in the background is for real?
what i now say--when "talk talk" call--is: who do they wish to speak to?" usual reply--is "the account holder"------to which i reply--"what name do you want ?" some say a name--not mine---or just ring off.
These calls are a result of all the stolen data that some of these companies allowed to be lost through really crap security measures in their databases. Talk Talk did lose a lot of data and definitely had compromised servers on their own network for a prolonged period of time, but it does not actually matter who loses data all companies then become a victim of the frauds, when you get the call from 'Microsoft' it does not necessarily mean that Microsoft has let your information be stolen these criminals are just using the phone number, name, address and email details from any database and working on the logic that you probably have a PC, when they claim to be from Talk Talk then they probably do know the source of the data and if it is BT then that probably results from the giant Yahoo data breach as BT partnered Yahoo for a long time. I got bitten directly by Talk Talk at the start of last year as they had bought the BlinkBox service and allowed the servers to be compromised in a way that meant card processing details could be intercepted, while I realised what had happened very quickly my card issuer realised even quicker and blocked several high value transactions, however I still had to wait a month for two transactions of £100 to be repaid to me.
