killiefaetheferry Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Exodus is best for movies and 'series'. Zem TV seems best for football but I would welcome any other suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Cheers for the input guys that will get me started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Rampant Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 123 Movies is the best one ive found for films. Never any dead links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Hibs Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Be have  regular problems with my TV box. About every month it becomes a brick. It'll boot up, but Kodi/wookie crashes on load, even my browser doesn't work. Sometimes clearing Kodi cache fixes it, but the majority of times I need to factory reset/reinstall firmware and Wookies. This is a pain coz It's just so unreliable and each time you use it you don't know if it'll be working. It is an EntertainmentBox system, so I'm suspicious that their software is causing the issues. Anbody else experience regular unreliability when using Wookies?  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Rampant Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 9 minutes ago, Brummie Hibs said: Be have  regular problems with my TV box. About every month it becomes a brick. It'll boot up, but Kodi/wookie crashes on load, even my browser doesn't work. Sometimes clearing Kodi cache fixes it, but the majority of times I need to factory reset/reinstall firmware and Wookies. This is a pain coz It's just so unreliable and each time you use it you don't know if it'll be working. It is an EntertainmentBox system, so I'm suspicious that their software is causing the issues. Anbody else experience regular unreliability when using Wookies?  No, can't say I've ever had any problems. I've had mine for over a year and it's still working fine. The only thing I ever need to do is periodically udate Wookie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alibi Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I have a Fire Stick and I installed both Kodi and Mobdro on it last night - not difficult to do if you have any basic computer skills as there are loads of online articles explaining the process.  Between Zem on Kodi and the various channels on Mobdro, I now appear to be spoiled for choice.  The streams are not as sharp as you'd get receiving the channels directly, but perfectly watchable, even on my 50" plasma. Am I correct in thinking that the streams seem to improve in quality after you've been watching for a few minutes?  I thought maybe some sort of peer to peer effect that increased bandwidth the longer you were online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantyboy1983 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 A few of my friends and family have been using amazon fire sticks/kodi etc for a while but I was never really interested mainly due to issues with buffering/picture quality (example was I went up to my friends house to watch the Scottish Cup Final but ended up watching on my phone using SkyGo for the 1st 10 mins until he found a stream that worked). Cut long story short, after getting fed up paying Sky I got a ZGEMMA H2S box installed last month so I have cancelled the Sky subscription and am now using this box. It's set up just like the Sky EPG and can record 2 programmes at the same time just like Sky (twin tuner). This works through your satellite dish/virgin cable so no streaming/buffering (though box does need wi-fi connection, i am using the wee sky on demand boxes you get). I get full Sky package on it ie sports/movies, also have btsports etc. Also have IPTV which I believe is a streaming service, this has movies, box sets etc, even some Adult recreational channels!! . It is taking a wee bit of getting used to but I'm getting there. Cost me £140 for the box with subscription for 12 months. After year it's £25 to renew for another year or £40 if I still want IPTV too. Was paying Sky over £50 per month so in 3 months the box will have paid for itself, I would recommend if you can't be arsed with Android boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Hibs Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 5 hours ago, Grantyboy1983 said:  I got a ZGEMMA H2S box I also have one of these for Virgin - however I'm having issues with sticking channels, or some just won't work. The support I'm getting from my line supplier is not existent so I'm thinking of going with another - even though I've splashed out for a year. How do you find your reliability? And if good, can you also PM your line supplier so I can see if I can get one from there to. Incidentally: My mate's T8 Droidbox also has the same issues which I have - can anybody tell me a more reliable (cheap) one? I would be using Ethernet connection, so not wanting a Firestick.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grantyboy1983 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 2 hours ago, Brummie Hibs said: I also have one of these for Virgin - however I'm having issues with sticking channels, or some just won't work. The support I'm getting from my line supplier is not existent so I'm thinking of going with another - even though I've splashed out for a year. How do you find your reliability? And if good, can you also PM your line supplier so I can see if I can get one from there to. Incidentally: My mate's T8 Droidbox also has the same issues which I have - can anybody tell me a more reliable (cheap) one? I would be using Ethernet connection, so not wanting a Firestick.   I would say for the most part the reliability has been very good, a couple of instances when it has been a wee bit glitchy ie screen freezes for a few secs then resumes, you can notice that on recordings. I also had an issue when trying to watch the Liverpool v Man U game on Tuesday but after i put the box on deep standby and restarted it was fine. I will PM you my supplier details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Hibs Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 On the ZGemma, I've found the Sports and movie channels excellent, and also most of the standard Freeview channels too. However, music channels are unwatchable, and the usual paid for channels (Discovery, National Geographic, etc) to be glitchy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipped flake Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 On 10/7/2016 at 8:19 PM, killiefaetheferry said: Exodus is best for movies and 'series'. Zem TV seems best for football but I would welcome any other suggestions. I am pretty new to Fire stick/Kodi but I downloaded Exodus and it's great for movies. For football, I got Sportsmania and the quality of the picture is pretty close to my Sky HD. Sportsmania is subscription and I just paid £6 for a week to try it out. You can get a year for £50, or 6 months for £26, a month for £12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefaetheferry Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Thanks for that. Yes I was thinking about it. Lifestyle -wise at the moment, I am struggling to see a full game at night midweek, so I see a lot of first halves on BT Sport on the Mac or SkyGo on the iPad whilst cooking, but then it's dinner time so I tend to miss a lot of conclusions to games which is annoying ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euan2020 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) On 10/20/2016 at 3:03 PM, dipped flake said: I am pretty new to Fire stick/Kodi but I downloaded Exodus and it's great for movies. For football, I got Sportsmania and the quality of the picture is pretty close to my Sky HD. Sportsmania is subscription and I just paid £6 for a week to try it out. You can get a year for £50, or 6 months for £26, a month for £12. Do you get 3pm Saturday matches on Sportsmania - or just regular BTSport, Sky etc etc ? mate has a bar in South Africa and telling him he should stream some of the scottish matches Edited February 11, 2017 by euan2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Hibs Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 You can get access to any game in the world that is being broadcasted anywhere in the world. Quality and reliability is mixed though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipped flake Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 1 hour ago, euan2020 said: Do you get 3pm Saturday matches on Sportsmania - or just regular BTSport, Sky etc etc ? mate has a bar in South Africa and telling him he should stream some of the scottish matches You get a lot more than sky and btw, but of course it depends on what games foreign channels are you showing. You would normally get a choice of English games at 3pm and you would usually get Celtic and rangers games then too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gala Tartan Army (Borders) Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Got a Droid box that was working perfectly, got all the sports channels . On Sunday it asked me to download I think it was something like" Bob Sam's Wizard" , which I stupidly did , now I have completely lost all my sport . Any suggestions to get the sport back would be appreciated . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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