[Harryg]

Anyone know whats considered the best Android Steaming Box.

[nordberg]

I’ve got a TX3 and it’s been great.

[Ss66]

I'm running iptv but on a cable box

[chris-c]

Nvidia Shield is still regarded as the best.

Depending on what you are streaming many of the cheaper boxes cope fine. If its netflix, iplayer or similar you're fine on everything but if its local content at 4k you're going to need something a bit beefier.

I originally started with WDTV Live's. They were okay but when I moved onto a T95M (4k) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tronic-T95M.../dp/B06ZZF5VPV - it was far better. Since getting a 4k HDR TV the older boxes simply couldn't cope with the content. They'd jitter and buffer and simply were not up to the job even though they are 4k capable boxes.

I bought one of these for the 4k content and it copes fine.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FD1SN2G
The problem is some heavy 4k streams are upwards of 150mb/sec and most cheap boxes only have a 10/100 network port so are simply unable to handle the throughput. The cheaper box sat at 85mb/sec solidly then buffered then repeated. It just needed that little bit extra through put to handle the content.

[Harryg]

Originally Posted by chris-c

Nvidia Shield is still regarded as the best.

Depending on what you are streaming many of the cheaper boxes cope fine. If its netflix, iplayer or similar you're fine on everything but if its local content at 4k you're going to need something a bit beefier.

I originally started with WDTV Live's. They were okay but when I moved onto a T95M (4k) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tronic-T95M.../dp/B06ZZF5VPV - it was far better. Since getting a 4k HDR TV the older boxes simply couldn't cope with the content. They'd jitter and buffer and simply were not up to the job even though they are 4k capable boxes.

I bought one of these for the 4k content and it copes fine.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FD1SN2G
The problem is some heavy 4k streams are upwards of 150mb/sec and most cheap boxes only have a 10/100 network port so are simply unable to handle the throughput. The cheaper box sat at 85mb/sec solidly then buffered then repeated. It just needed that little bit extra through put to handle the content.

I was looking at the Beelink GS! but are hard to come by at the moment looking at the Nvidia Shield the specs look really good and it streams games FOC at the moment its more expensive but I believe it worth the extra
Thanks for the info now looking to run a cat6 cable to hardwire it..

[chris-c]

The Beelink GS is decent and I had looked at those I was just in a rush and the one I bought from amazon was around the same money and has slightly better spec.

For the older boxes I run them with OpenElec to make them that bit faster but there seems to be issues with the gigabit lan on some of the units that OpenElec doesn't play nicely with and at the moment I dont have time to mess around with "fixing" something that isn't really broken on the new box.

The older boxes with a 10/100 card can work better with a £10 USB3 -> Gigabit lan adapter but they then have the hardware bottleneck with the GPU with some content.

[Harryg]

Originally Posted by chris-c

The Beelink GS is decent and I had looked at those I was just in a rush and the one I bought from amazon was around the same money and has slightly better spec.

For the older boxes I run them with OpenElec to make them that bit faster but there seems to be issues with the gigabit lan on some of the units that OpenElec doesn't play nicely with and at the moment I dont have time to mess around with "fixing" something that isn't really broken on the new box.

The older boxes with a 10/100 card can work better with a £10 USB3 -> Gigabit lan adapter but they then have the hardware bottleneck with the GPU with some content.

Thanks again
As I already have a cat 6 cable to my compo would it be possible using a switching box 10/100/1000 instead of running another 15 metre cable from the router?

[chris-c]

You could add a small switch near your computer and turn one cable into 4 if you needed it.

[Hooded]

Agree with what's been said already .. the Nvidia Shield is the Daddy, although if you just want to stream some 1080p stuff it's over kill.

[teaston]

Why not just install IPTV app on your TV?

[Rudz]

Which is the best iptv solution at the minute?

[Abrek]

Originally Posted by Rudz

Which is the best iptv solution at the minute?

Satguru is very good had it for 6 months, all UK and US channels, 4K content, good VOD choice.

[chiefy]

Originally Posted by Abrek

Satguru is very good had it for 6 months, all UK and US channels, 4K content, good VOD choice.

Can you PM me link for this

[Abrek]

Originally Posted by chiefy

Can you PM me link for this

PMed. They do 1 day free trial so do that to make sure you are happy with what’s on offer

[Steve_M_Sport]

Originally Posted by Abrek

PMed. They do 1 day free trial so do that to make sure you are happy with what’s on offer

Me too please as a Google search for satguru reveals nothing

[Harryg]

Originally Posted by teaston

Why not just install IPTV app on your TV?

Depending what OS the tv has it may not allow an IPTV to be installed also its best to go through a good VPN when connected so another app the TV may not let you install.
You can do all this on a box even if you have to sideload to get it on its more difficult with a TV OS unless you have an android TV

[nordberg]

Originally Posted by chiefy

Can you PM me link for this

Could you PM me too please. Always on the lookout for new providers...

[Abrek]

Originally Posted by nordberg

Could you PM me too please. Always on the lookout for new providers...

Done, let me know how you get on

[nordberg]

Originally Posted by Abrek

Done, let me know how you get on

Thanks mate 👍👍

[Harryg]

Originally Posted by Abrek

Satguru is very good had it for 6 months, all UK and US channels, 4K content, good VOD choice.

Can you please pm the link I would like to try them out thanks

[chris-c]

I'm all ears too

[Harryg]

thanks Abrek