Few months back purchased a firestick and installed kodi. Now looking to upgrade and buy something similar for my parents. I’m also trying to factor in cost (sub £50 maybe more for iptv) and longetivity. Looking to access all free material and pay a sub for live football.
A cheap, straightforward upgrade I think would be a Chinese android box. I don’t have money for nvidia shield, could push to the xiaomi mi box. I’m thinking the Nexbox A95x, Beelink Mini MX3 v2, Mini M8S2 etc…all around the £40-£50 range 2gb/16gb. Does anyone have any advice as to which Chinese brands may provide ongoing support / updates? Which are recommended?
The alternative is to go IPTV, I think the main advantage here is stability and UI. I keep hearing about the mag 254 box, is this the one to get? Also, would I be able to get VOD such as something like exodus? Or is iptv mainly for live tv?
I think the service (football) is down to the provider, so a good provider on kodi would beat an average one on iptv?
Any opinions would be appreciated.
A cheap, straightforward upgrade I think would be a Chinese android box. I don’t have money for nvidia shield, could push to the xiaomi mi box. I’m thinking the Nexbox A95x, Beelink Mini MX3 v2, Mini M8S2 etc…all around the £40-£50 range 2gb/16gb. Does anyone have any advice as to which Chinese brands may provide ongoing support / updates? Which are recommended?
The alternative is to go IPTV, I think the main advantage here is stability and UI. I keep hearing about the mag 254 box, is this the one to get? Also, would I be able to get VOD such as something like exodus? Or is iptv mainly for live tv?
I think the service (football) is down to the provider, so a good provider on kodi would beat an average one on iptv?
Any opinions would be appreciated.
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Re - IPTV, I would have thought a dedicated unit would be the way to go, but maybe an android box would suit my limited tech prowess.
You need a microSD card with fast 4k rand read/write though, the normal read/write speeds are useless for this, the Samsung Evo/Evo+ is good for this and under £6 for the 16GB Evo+
once you put in your server address, that's it your done. no real technical knowledge needed.
you will get most channels in HD and all football in HD. VOD (series and movies) and also catch up.
If you go this route, do your research and get a 24 hour test off the provider (try and make the test during a decent game that you know the server will be busy). you will have a good idea how stable the server is under load then.
Specs look really good on this box. Is this much power needed to setup IPTV?
I'm leaning towards spending c.£40 on a beelink android box, S905x 2gb 16gb. I can get this directly from UK quite quickly.
I’m only really interested in sports and vod.
I think Kodi does this fine for me whereas iptv seems less flexible, more of a replacement for iks.
Mag 254 – the VOD/video club has the same kind of content as exodus?
Apart from people suggesting IPTV streams are more stable, are there other advantages of IPTV over using kodi? If the quality is down to the provider (e.g. buying a sports sub), does it really matter which one you use?
I see the Satellite and IPTV thread, hundreds of pages long, are most of these people using kodi? or an iptv box?
Thanks,
I use an Android app for my IPTV rather than Kodi, Much less of a resource hog, quicker to load etc.. My supplier has it's own app and it's got an epg too.
They pretty much use the same streams, If they're down on Kodi, they'll probably be down on IPTV.
You need to do more research. IPTV means Internet (Protocol) TV, it is IPTV if you are watching it live through Kodi. If you are using Kodi though then LibreElec is much better.
Sure, but the terminology thrown around forums muddles this and iptv comes in the form of a m3u file on something like a mag box, whereas kodi is known as a media player with access to several add-ons such as Exodsus.,
If you had to choose out of the two - xiaomi mi box or a mag 254 box? and why?
Wetek play 2 seems an interesting choice, although not sure you can watch and record other TV channels at the same time.
Hi Guys,
Found the thread looking for the same question. Whether to buy A95x or Mag 254 ? I like the idea of having a stand alone box for IPTV due to already have smart tv with apps but not convinced that £65 it only has 512mb ram.
Hows your pick going a year later ? Would you still choose the A95x (edited)
H96 Pro max+ 4gb ram, 32gb storage - £38 on ebay
The z7+ gets used the most, followed by the 322 in the bedroom, mecool box is basically a backup box atm.
Z7+ runs iptv the best out of these boxes/formats due to its mytvonline app which is the best app I’ve used for iptv. I have another thread here discussing this in more detail, if you do go this route ensure you buy from official seller because the biggest issue with these boxes are bugs/glitches, I’ve had to send one back after 2-3 months.
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H96 as above is a good box if going for an android box.