BarryBobPosthole
09-06-2016, 10:03 AM
Okay so I bought myself Amazon Fire TV. I posted earlier where I was looking into it. I got the box because it has 8g of memory vs 2, and its expandable using micro SD cards and the stick isn't. I got the package that included an HD antenna just because it was cheap and I wanted to see how it worked. My goal in this is not to get completely off of cable immediately, but to cut my cable bill down now and explore getting rid of it completely as we learn the streaming gig.
First thing I did was to jail break it. That was easy enough.I've also been learning how to find and download apps. Downloaded a couple of apps to start searching for live sports and movies. let me say this about that. Theres a bunch of both out there. But its a shady world. Lots of developers, lots of websites, lots of apps. I've still not figured out what the motivation is for a developer, since there's no money involved in any of it. The legality is dubious, but I've yet to do anything against the law and I don't plan to. I will say, it is apparent the streaming thing is exploding. I expect the content providers to pay attention at some point. The links to streams you want to watch in a given app might work one day and not work the next. So a serious tv or movie watcher might have to check two or three apps to find what they're looking for. Not what we're used to.
I can't see this completely replacing cable content. For me, just the non-jailbroken stuff in Amazon TV will save me a hundred bucks a month on my cable-internet-phone package. That pays for itself in one month. basically, that is because we'll reduce our channels from 400+ to 200 and we are Prime members for other services already.
The streaming on it works good with no buffering issues so far.
Now I'm researching setting up a vpn. Who knows about that? I want to make my shit more secure and it seems this builds a ip-address wall between me and the world.
BKb
First thing I did was to jail break it. That was easy enough.I've also been learning how to find and download apps. Downloaded a couple of apps to start searching for live sports and movies. let me say this about that. Theres a bunch of both out there. But its a shady world. Lots of developers, lots of websites, lots of apps. I've still not figured out what the motivation is for a developer, since there's no money involved in any of it. The legality is dubious, but I've yet to do anything against the law and I don't plan to. I will say, it is apparent the streaming thing is exploding. I expect the content providers to pay attention at some point. The links to streams you want to watch in a given app might work one day and not work the next. So a serious tv or movie watcher might have to check two or three apps to find what they're looking for. Not what we're used to.
I can't see this completely replacing cable content. For me, just the non-jailbroken stuff in Amazon TV will save me a hundred bucks a month on my cable-internet-phone package. That pays for itself in one month. basically, that is because we'll reduce our channels from 400+ to 200 and we are Prime members for other services already.
The streaming on it works good with no buffering issues so far.
Now I'm researching setting up a vpn. Who knows about that? I want to make my shit more secure and it seems this builds a ip-address wall between me and the world.
BKb