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Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 21, 2018 at 10:05 am
Gawd, there were a bunch of new live shows added a few months ago. It’s mostky rehashed episode skits, though, so no biggie.
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 21, 2018 at 10:10 am
(December 21, 2018 at 10:05 am)Shell B Wrote: Gawd, there were a bunch of new live shows added a few months ago. It’s mostky rehashed episode skits, though, so no biggie.
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 21, 2018 at 2:39 pm
We really enjoyed them.

Recently, we were able to go to a showing of Monty Python with a talk by John Cleese afterward. One of the highlights of my life.
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 22, 2018 at 12:31 pm (This post was last modified: December 22, 2018 at 12:31 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(December 21, 2018 at 6:36 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(December 20, 2018 at 9:25 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The Cube can control your TV with an IR blaster. It pretty much completely replaces a shitty smart TV's interface.

I get past that interface quickly as it is. Is the "IR blaster" that much better? Enquiring minds want to know.

One remote, that's what does it for me. "Alexa, change to HDMI 4", "Alexa, turn off the TV."

To be perfectly honest, I have an Android TV as my main TV, and I bought a cheap Vizio 4k for the living room, and I ended up using it more than my good TV. The Vizio interface is hot garbage, so I bought a fire cube on Black Friday. I never had a stick, so I don't know all of the differences, but the Fire Cube made my TV infinitely more usable.
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 22, 2018 at 6:11 pm
We've decided to go with the Firestick because we're into Prime already and a common interface on both TVs is a goodness.
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December 27, 2018 at 11:51 am (This post was last modified: December 27, 2018 at 11:54 am by Angrboda.)
I found this on another forum. You may have already seen it.


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35 Best Amazon Fire Stick Apps to Ditch Your Cable TV
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December 27, 2018 at 12:13 pm
(December 27, 2018 at 11:51 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I found this on another forum.  You may have already seen it.


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35 Best Amazon Fire Stick Apps to Ditch Your Cable TV

Good you shared! Great
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December 28, 2018 at 1:39 am (This post was last modified: December 28, 2018 at 1:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-okay...so...all of these things are scams, y'all realize?  They're just accessories that exist to sell you subs....it's a purse for a tv that comes with affiliate marketing.

The most universal is chromecast.  Theres nothing that any of the others can do that chromecast can't.....but you should just buy a TV with native dual channel and menu options.
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December 28, 2018 at 5:27 am
WHOA! We have to pay for things others create?
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RE: Roku/FireStick/WhatThing people, what's good?
December 28, 2018 at 5:41 am
I've been largely unimpressed with Chromecast. The content question aside, the implementation sucks. Casting shit always comes with problems, and I don't think it's the content, it's the Chromecast software itself. I have all sorts of issues watching things with my Chromecast. Considerably less issues with other streaming media products and technology, mainly problems with the DVR function with Playstation VUE. So, you're welcome to your opinion, but clearly, YMMV!
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