I might take a look at that tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the heads up.

Sky Sports 1 , 12.45 start . C`Mon Bris

I can stream sky sports 1 easily enough - 3.45 for me. But there's an England game at pretty much the same time.

Sometimes I watch the football on the telly at the same time as a rugby stream on the laptop, but it's often not that satisfying.

In fact sometimes I switch my vision back to the footie and then wonder why someone doesn't catch the ball.

My mate played for L Welsh.

carry on...

So which one is the best android box? What should we be looking for spec wise?

Just cancelled Shaw after 8 months of 50 bucks deal thats gone up to 142... yea right.

I haven't seen any but I haven't been using it for that long. I saw some online discussions (from a few months ago) regarding the Hola Unblocker add-on injecting ads during general browsing but apparently it was easy to turn that off. However, I also saw reports that they have since stopped doing that anyway after receiving user complaints.

Shame UK TV has caught up with ad blockers. Have to sit through that bloody Meerkat cat now.

SIMPLES!

I'm thinking we should have a thread that deals with specific alternatives but no discussion, just a summary. Perhaps to become a sticky or in the wiki.

I always thought Apple TV was an actual TV but it sounds similar to the Android thing.
So, does this mean that it's no good without an iGadget?

Does the Android thing work off wi-fi too? Or does it have it's own gizmo or whatever to receive stuff?

If there are two TVs presumably one needs two boxes or is there a wireless version as well?

There are times when my stepson is watching streams off Vodly or Primewire, I might be watching live ITV and my wife is streaming 'housewives' on Bravo or something. Others in the house will be watching old fashioned TV, perhaps something on CTV.

Is all this possible on Android without any additional fees? We do it without any bandwidth issues. Are there bandwidth issues or other similar problems) with Android

Does anything need changing according to what you want to watch - for example, Stealthy required one to select USA to view something from CBS but it had to be reset to UK to watch BBC, whereas MediaHint needs no adjusting.

One of the nice things about TSN & Rodgers is that on Saturdays I can plonk myself down in front of one TV and there may be 3 or 4 matches on simultaneously. I can focus on one and flick over to see scores from the others. Ditto on Champions League matchdays.

Does Android receive TSN/Rodgers TV and TV quality? They have subscriptions for on-line access. Does Android count as on line and it's free or is there a sub involved?

Football and rugby streams are much more reliable than they used to be but can still be not as good quality as if they were on TV. Our Internet speeds are very good so it's more likely to be a streaming source problem, but I still get the odd stutter or fuzziness.

Does that happen with Android?

Acestream has improved the quality of live streaming. Shame the really good streams are Russian. There was a 4k one there for England yesterday but the commentary was annoying. I watched through ITV live, which was pretty good... unlike England's performance.

Me too. It was on TV here but I just can't take the presentation - when there is any - hence preferring ITV even with Andy Townsend.

We have just the one wifi android set up with our main TV in the sitting room , bought for a couple of hundred with no additional fees , how it would work with multiple boxes I cannot say .
Am just enjoying the access to BT Sports and Sky , a welcome relief from hockey and rounders

Don't start me off on Townsend.

Does BBC iplayer works with it?

So it's receiving from your wireless internet. How do you "tune in" to whatever channel you want? On screen menu? Search function?

Can you quickly change from one to another - to check a score for example - as I described?

Interesting that i managed to get media hint to work again after some googling you can download the old version and drag it into extensions on chrome in "developer mode" this is a non updating version and worked just as before until yesterday. Now i get message from google chrome telling me all extensions that are enabled but not on their app list store have been permanently disabled to "protect my system" WTF???
I guess Firefox is still ok? I am now trying Hola and it seems to work well, the mrs just managed a whole episode of Casualty on i player without issue and watched episode on of a new drama called Amber which was good.