FireTV Stick

my friend was saying to sideload kodi or something onto the stick I to stream all sorts of media. Anyone else try it yet?

Definitely a good way to go.

bought it. love it.

I love my Fire Stick. After all the press the Fire Phone got and how really bleh it was and subsequently failed I see almost no one talking about the Fire Stick. I've had a couple glitches like having to reboot both phone and Stick in order to get the You Tube app to work, but found it to be more useful than Chromecast in every situation. Simply having its own little remote and built in apps makes it nicer. People who visited thought Plex was nice, but never wanted to bother with setting it up on their phone etc but now that the Fire Stick works they just go to town with it.

Damn.. Just discovered my ex wife took my chromecast AND Firestick when she left. She use to bitch about the things every other week but apparently they were good enough to keep when she left!

Got my Fire TV stick yesterday, I now have both it, and a Chromecast.

The FireTV stick is pretty cool, it's nice that it comes already set up for your account and everything, don't even have to log in with your Amazon info.

My only gripe so far is that it gave me a warning that it could not draw enough power just from having the power cord plugged into an extra USB port on the TV, it recommended actually plugging it into an outlet(Chromecast works fine powered from USB only).

Also though, Amazon Prime video service needs to do a little bit better job distinguishing between movies/TV shows that are free with the Prime service, and ones you have to pay for. You have to actually go into the episode list of a series before you can see the pricing, it would be nice if you could somehow tell that while browsing (A "free" typed on the series graphic or something while browsing would work.

I think all the free ones have a Prime logo at the bottom. I usually browse just by Prime video regardless. The only time it can be somewhat confusing is when I specifically search for something but I just look for the prime logo. If it is absent then it is paid content.

For sure. I mean, I'm not going to bitch too much for what I consider is basically a free perk. I'd be subscribing to Prime for the free shipping regardless, but they definitely have room to improve if they want to really push their video service as a legitimate alternative/competitor to Netflix

Holy crap, just felt like looking into if it could run XMBC/Kodi and 1Channel etc, and it can beautifully... jesus.

sideloaded this pretty much spot on.TVMC App for Android

Gay, it can't run the March madness app.