Android TV Box?

[Gray]

Has anyone had any experience with these Android TV Boxes?

I'm considering my options and someone in work mentioned this which piqued my interest. I used to have an old Cable-box to get any and all channels, but after Virgin/Other companies had their lockdown on the service i had to cease using it.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adSLwaHBlic


Video which goes through the details of a product and the channel capabilties. My only issue i feel i have is that i have Virgin multiroom and so i won't get the benefit of the service in both rooms, so i'll be losing channels if i opt to downgrade my Virgin service.

 

[Gray]

oh pffft, can this be moved to the Tech forum, sure that's were i posted this!

 

[Jupitus]

oh pffft, can this be moved to the Tech forum, sure that's were i posted this!

Done.

 

[MYstIC G]

£82 is expensive for something you could probably do with a RaspberryPi or Android stick if you install XBMC yourself his video gives away the plugins you'd most likely need.

 

[MYstIC G]

http://m.aliexpress.com/item/1365849555.html?tracelog=wwwdetail2mobilesitedetail

Circa £40 from China for the hardware

 

[ECA]

You can get cheap A9 boxes like this - £28 , basically same spec as the ebay link.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MK808-Andro...?ie=UTF8&qid=1399246428&sr=8-1&keywords=mk808

The reason is the cheaper ones are running on mk808s and the newer more expensive ones are on mk818s.

~£50 for an 818 build:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generic-Lat...?ie=UTF8&qid=1399246564&sr=8-6&keywords=mk818

 

[MYstIC G]

Just noticed your eBay guy lies as well @Gray the Chinese preloaded all the shizzle.