So this is kind of a small rant but ultimately have a question at the end, if its allowed. I have a nice Sony Bravia with Android TV and love it, also have an Xbox one as well. Contrary to the marketing wanks the Xbox is a terrible "All in one" entertainment device as literally no app is optimized for the system, so it shits the bed regularly with everything streaming.

Now to the TV, Netflix is amazing with the Dolby vision on it, streams perfect, no stutters or buffering, Disney and even Hulu do great when I find those to crap out on the good ole Xbox. Also my phone streams 4k over YouTube all day on my network, no lag or anything. So I'm almost certain there's no network issues, as literally every other option is doing fine.

But that fucking YouTube. Always lags, doesn't want to load, have to back out and reload only to watch ads again for it to fail, again. 4k is pretty much undoable and about 20 minutes into watching I'm barely holding on at 720 or even 480. It's shit. Same story on the Xbox

So my question, I've had it, I'm ready to spend coin on a dedicated streaming device ONLY for YouTube IF, and only IF, there is one that it's optimized on very well. I'm not sure such a device exists, I just want to watch good 4k content on my good TV and good internet and not deal with the bullshit anymore.

Anybody have suggestions?

Is Google's latest "Chromecast with Google TV" powerful enough run emulate basic 2D Sega Saturn titles like "Saturn Bomberman"?

Are there any performance differences between the stand-alone version of Yaba Sanshiro and the Sega Saturn cores in Retroarch?

Anyone else notice the recommended videos are really useless and repeat the same videos on the same page/line and will show videos watched the same day/week over and over.

Is this just me?

Hi, I bought Motorola ZX2 Android TV yesterday. I'm getting meagre spped on my wifi with the TV, constant buffering with even youtube 480p. I did a speedtest and found it to be 0.5Mbps whereas my phone when kept at the same location gets 20Mbps. What could be the issue? TIA.

I use File Commander to side load and as of today, I’m getting an error when trying to connect to Google Drive saying “Something went wrong. Sorry, this app is not supported. Please try again later.”

Anyone else experiencing this and any idea how to resolve?

Just bought one so far so good for what it is , it’s tiny. It’s for my garage tv so I didn’t need anything special , it was cheap as well , so why not

I had it since Last Fall when it came out, I have to say at first it was great they it started acting up, I will also mention I have the new Google TV device also. So Dynalink is just a headache, I had issues with updates such as Android WebView not updating, did all the tricks suggested, nothing worked except factory resets this week is the second time having to do this I never had issue with Google TV and updates if I did the tricks that people suggested work like charm. The other thing with Dynalink is the remote kept having to be reprogramed almost each time I started the device. Today I just decided to factory rest the device and put in in a draw enough is enough. Google TV it is.

Is anyone else having this issue

Is there another modded youtube app like smart tube next that can be installed on TV? Or better still, is it possible to install two instances of smart tube next?

I have that Chinese android tv that slow and annoying and want to get something better.

I heard that Chromecast doesn't play videos from external hard drive without many extra wires and other things (USB spliter with power adapter)

All I want is a thing to use with Kodi and Hard Drive and my country dosn't have many good options besides Chromecast and other Bootlegs boxes

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I live in Bahrain by the way if you ask.

thanks

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Edit : I order Mi Box S, I hope it better, it have Kodi right?

Has anyone tried the latest version on an Android TV 9? I'm still stuck with the last December one know as LauncherX on my TCL.

Hi, I'm interested in buying a smart tv. But most of the smart tvs i looked cant get the sky x app. I think only samsung and LG tvs get sky x.

I now watched a YouTube video of a MI smart tv which has android tv 9.0. Android is google..and on my android phone i can download the sky x app. Is it also possible on android tv?

I have downloaded some movies on my laptop and I want to watch them on my tv.

Currently, I use Sendfilestotv app to send movies from my laptop to tv. But this a lot of work.

I am looking for an app like Syncthing which syncs files on my laptop and tv over wifi. With something like this, everything happens in the background, I need not do anything.

My tv has 32GB internal storage, so storage in tv is not a problem.

One can use hdmi cable to play movies on laptop on tv. But I don't have hdmi cable. Also, I don't want to keep my laptop turned on during this process.

Hi,
I am looking for people with Verizon Stream TV Box manufactured by WNC or Year of Manufacture 2019.

Thanks.

I tried using my pixel slate's charger (which I think is ~45W) with my hub but CC just boot loops. I'm guessing my charger couldn't supply enough power. Does anybody have a power brick suggestion? Preferably microcenter or anything else not Amazon. Thank you!

it's an OTT TV Box. Model M8S. Android 4.4.2

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Build number: M8S.BCM4335.201510291048

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Kernel version: 3.10.33 ubuntu@google-server #1 thu oct 29 10:51:20 cst 2015

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when i click system update it says network connection failed but wifi is working lol

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i found a site called entertainmentbox that instructs how to update to firmware from 2017 using an SD card and other things i'm confused about. but can i update from a usb?

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how important is it to update? and should i be trying to update its android version?

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all i really use it for is MX Player, which i'm running an old version of as well and not sure if i should wanna update that too?

I have a Philips 50' 4k Android TV with everything updated. It's the newest model line.

How do I check the signal strength of an OTA tv channel, is there even a way to do it on an Android tv. I used to be able to on all my old TV's even back to a 2006 plasma I had, I'd rather not have to buy an extra device to do something it should already do.