Dr Gloom 19736 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Depends on your expectations. If you want access to pretty much any film or tv program ever made at whatever time you want to watch them, it's first class. If you expect live tv to come through at the same quality and reliability that you get from Sky, you're going to be disapointed. Other than football and Cricket, I barely watch any live tv anymore and I never paid for the sports channels anyway so it's perfect for me. football and cricket is pretty much what i'd use it for. is it not HD quality in the main then when you stream sport live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1115 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 (edited) football and cricket is pretty much what i'd use it for. is it not HD quality in the main then when you stream sport live?It all depends on what streams are available. Last week I watched the champions and europa league games on Fox Sport (added bonus of no Michael Owen) and they were HD with no buffering at all. The stream I watched the last five minutes of the Arsenal game yesterday wasn't quite HD but a decent SD. For the cricket you can usually get much better streams of Sky than you can with football. It's pretty much HD a lot of the time and always very watchable. Given that with cricket there's not the contant movement that there is with football, worse quality streams often look better. It's never quite as good as what you'll get if you pay for it though whereas for watching TV Shows and Films I would say it is. Edited April 18, 2016 by David Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17619 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I've found it completely shit for football personally. I can never find a decent stream that looks good on a large screen or isn't buffered to fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12736 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I've found it completely shit for football personally. I can never find a decent stream that looks good on a large screen or isn't buffered to fuck. Same here. My Kodi is purely for telly and filums and that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I've found Exodus to be fantastic, but it's not great for older stuff I've found so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19736 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Maybe not time to cancel the sky subscription after all then? Tits. I usually watch Vipbox for streaming football. The quality is anywhere from average to awful with unwatchable buffering. If Kodi is like that I don't think I'll bother. What's all the hype about then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 i still haven't got around to getting this sorted. going to cancel sky soon so need to get involved. is it still as awesome as everyone made out at the start of the thread? and is the amazon fire stick thingy still considered the best device to dump it on? It's fantastic As DK says, every movie, every tv show. Basically you have more than sky has. I've found the football 80% of the time, perfect HD quality. Last couple of weeks has been iffy for some reason. That said, I'm talking about non broadcast live TV games. Anything that's on Sky or BT is usually spot on. No idea about cricket as I'm not a tart. Absolutely mad forking out for sky imo. The Beast still works superb as it has from day 1 (pre Xmas). I appreciate the guys who want to do it themselves etc with all these defrid??? Accounts that they ramble on about but it's great for me. I sit down on a night, decide what I want to watch and 99.9% of the time, it's there with zero buffering issues. I also like that it has several sports add ons so that if ones crap, it's a 10 second job to choose one of several others. Fire stick still works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38559 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 No idea about cricket as I'm not a tart. . One half of this statement is true, one half isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3181 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Of course if everyone stopped paying for tv then no new shows would get made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Everyone pays for Netflix and Amazon who are the only people making good TV any more anyway. You can get HBO solely online now too. And the BBC still produces some good stuff which is paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 13967 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Of course if everyone stopped paying for tv then no new shows would get made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1115 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 (edited) I never try to watch our matches on it as I'm always either there or watching it the local. The bloke at work has told me a few times that he's struggled to get decent streams. He is in his 60's though and not massively savy with these things so I think he could probably find better if he had the skills to search about a bit. I can usually find a good quality link of any match I want to watch and have never had a problem with the cricket. But for me it's really films and TV shows that I use it most for and I never have any problems. As I never had sky sports or movies to begin with it's all a bonus for me. It's not stopped me for paying for anything other than DVD/Bluray. I have a season ticket, still go to the cinema regularly and I pay my licence so I have zero guilt. Edited April 19, 2016 by David Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30241 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Of course if everyone stopped paying for tv then no new shows would get made. Footballers would have to go back to earning 10 grand a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3181 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Footballers would have to go back to earning 10 grand a week. Oh please watch as much football as you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Anyone been able to get the football on today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobos 297 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Not for 3 weeks now :/ phoenix seems bust and robot is gone, now I'm stuck, not working on vipbox for me either :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 phoenix > vc events looking good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share Posted May 7, 2016 Anyone been able to get the football on today? Bulldog streams pl pass has been superb last two games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobos 297 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 cheers HF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 For anyone who has kodi on a Firestick etc it appears you can no longer add / update kodi through ES file manager. You could connect to the PC or there may be another app that does it. However, if you are bone idle and want a quick fix from your settee, there is an iPhone app called side loader that lets you download kodi to your phone and then transfers it to the Firestick / Fire TV etc. Costs £1.49. The whole process takes about a minute. > insert comparisons to my sex life here< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Awesome ! thanks for the update ! was thinking about getting another Fire Stick for another room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Can anyone recommend some good Kodi add-ons, a lot of the ones I'm using, especially for live sport are really unreliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1115 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Zem, halow, Phoenix, njm all pretty much cover it for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26606 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Anyone tried loading kodi on a fire stick? Did it myself and all seems OK but exodus, velocity etc just won't work, only SALTS seems to and even then only on films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Exodus fine on my fire stick. 1080p shizzle. But I do have a real debrid account. Had the golf on SS1 yesterday via phoenix too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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