Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 11466079)

I don't like the look of that thingy with all those buttons on. :eek:

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11465988)

Got us a Magical Box Android Smart TV box last week, had a week to try it and looks like Rogers TV is guna be history in our house

New and old Movies, footy, live BBC 1-2-3, ITV, Ch4, Sky sport 1-2-3 etc, new and old series it's very good. (Yeh i knows u can get all this on a computer but) so easy all at the touch of a button, or 3.

Price? $110 all set up fully loaded with channels

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11465988)

....Yeh i knows u can get all this on a computer but so easy all at the touch of a button, or 3.

Price? $110 all set up fully loaded with channels

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11466133)

I am with Bell, Fibre and we get 365GB for $49:00 month. .

Originally Posted by not2old (Post 11469185)

how can I get such a deal which doesn't show on the Bell website?

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 11469223)

Some of these things don't get advertised other than mailshots.

We get a regular mailing from Rogers about something for about $15 a month that didn't show up on their site when I looked.

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11469252)

I called and negotiations took place

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11473191)

Disney channels, all what BBC ITV and ch4 have to offer and Cbee bees, or whatever. Plus all the kids movies, planes 1-2 ect

Originally Posted by not2old (Post 11474373)

I figure you've been using this box on a serious basis for over a week, so could you please do a short report for us?

- Quality of signal feed, selectivity & are there any channels you dont get that you had on Rogers?

Signal is as good as ur wifi.
+ Not looking for Rogers channels, I still have Rogers on the TV in the Basement, not got rid of it yet. Most channels are there tho.

- does the thing ever freeze frame (signal locks up)?

Just to put things in perspective not2old, last week I went for dinner, had a few beers, cost was $80, the Android box is around $100. Not the biggest outlay really, just give it a try, even if u only use it to watch all the current movies or just some UK TV and get the basic Rogers channels to run along side then it be worth it IMO.

Yeh, couple of times, tonight while watching Carl Fogerty on I'm a celeb. Just buffering I think. Was ok later tonight when Mrs watched the Mrs Brown Boys Movie. Yesterday's England game on ITV was perfect, plus English commentary:@)

- what about interruptions, commercials, messages etc when you're watching programs using the box?

Can't get away from adverts on ITV or ch4, no other messages it's not like a laptop it's programs only

- For a full family schedule viewing all watching (not filling in with Rogers) how many GB are you using per week?

I duno, it's not on all day and the boy is a big gamer too so not checked yet, will know better end of the month

thanks

Originally Posted by quiltman (Post 11474574)

Try Filmon.com
Use it all the time here in Philippines. Get all UK channels plus about 500 others. doesn't stutter and we only have a 6Mb feed. Nice thing is you can download recorded programmes to play back at leisure!

Originally Posted by not2old (Post 11474813)

magnumpi @ post 21... thanks for the update which appears you are on the way to saving some serious money

When you finally dump Rogers cable forever, will you go out & purchase a couple more Android TX boxes for the second & third TV, then upscale your Bell internet service to 'unlimited' at an additional cost (of whatever) to also continue to have to keep calling Bell every 6, 12, 18 months to (beg) negotiate to keep on giving you a discount or switch ISP to someone else?

Originally Posted by not2old (Post 11474828)

On 'filmon' have you used the 'subscription' service they offer?

FILMON TV FREE LIVE TV MOVIES AND SOCIAL TELEVISION

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11465988)

Got us a Magical Box Android Smart TV box last week, had a week to try it and looks like Rogers TV is guna be history in our house

New and old Movies, footy, live BBC 1-2-3, ITV, Ch4, Sky sport 1-2-3 etc, new and old series it's very good. (Yeh i knows u can get all this on a computer but) so easy all at the touch of a button, or 3.

Price? $110 all set up fully loaded with channels

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11475402)

He already has some of the boxes set up. He did say he usually add $20 to fill up the box with extra stuff, but he didn't charge me for that when we purchased ours.

Yes some channels may not work as they could be ones that need a seed, similar to limewire, that happens but then we select a new channel, mostly when selecting new movies.

It realy is plug n play, even get a HDMI cable in the box. But no batteries for remote :@(

Originally Posted by BexM (Post 11475413)

Does it show a list of BBC iplayer, itv iplayer, etc though so you know what you're clicking on? I only ask as back home we used to watch a show through xmbc on our computer and my husband used to navigate around it. It all looked a bit confusing to me and I don't want to have to rely on him to find me eastenders!

I don't suppose the guy you dealt with was called Malik was he?

Thanks for your help. I am so completely lost with all of this, and the more I read up on it, the more confused I get!

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11475423)

Not sure his name but does sound right

My OH can do it, she is not tech savy at all, takes a while to know we're stuff is, it's not BBC iplayer it's the Film on app, realy easy !!

Select sport devil

Click on live TV

Then live UK TV then it gives a list from BBC1 ect, all the way to DAVE channel

Originally Posted by BexM (Post 11475418)

Oh, and did you get the wireless keyboard with it?!

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 11475450)

No that was eXtra, the remote is ok that comes with it. We use both lol