Telkom LIT Android media box - Tips/Tricks/Apps thread

Icemanbrfc said:
Anybody please just tell me how to rotate an app to its correct position ie Terrarium lol. I just got the Litbox and I'm tearing hair out now.
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Terrarium TV - Settings - Android TV - Force Android TV Mode ?/Landscape Setting
 
isie said:
the issue sits between the couch and the Lit box
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Nope - it's a crap device. Fortunately I picked up a new Roku the other day so I can bury my LIT box in a cupboard somewhere.
 
Video setting

COLINR4 said:
FEEDBACK on DSTV NOW

Hi All,

To control the download speed and bandwidth of DSTV NOW app you must drop the Video resolution of the TELKOM TVB-100 box in the VIDEO settings, Mine was at 4K ( Used 1.5Gb/hour) then I used 480 as a test and used 450Mb per hour.

The downside is that ALL the TV BOX APPs now also run at 480 so U end up having to change the video setting all the time instead of just the DSTV NOW app.

Sorted for now.

Thanks a lot
Colin
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Cant find VIDEO in the Settings or are you refering to Display under TVSetting?
 
New dstv now app has data rate settings in the options screen
 
bwana said:
Nope - it's a crap device. Fortunately I picked up a new Roku the other day so I can bury my LIT box in a cupboard somewhere.
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A cupboard with space can be found in Joburg. Free storage for a limited time only
 
bwana said:
Roku Express for the spare room.
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Now that device also has some severe restrictions. Although they may not effect you - the lack of an Ethernet port or 4K is a huge thing for the majority of people.

But I believe an issue here is Android TV / Netflix (as opposed to all the boxes running 'old' Android) . I'm a running a test box (https://sites.google.com/view/droid-tv/oem/airties) and Android 8 .... still an issue with Netflix!
 
Dolby said:
Now that device also has some severe restrictions. Although they may not effect you - the lack of an Ethernet port or 4K is a huge thing for the majority of people.
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Since the spare room doesn't have ethernet or a 4k tv it's not really an issue.

I'd be willing to bet there are more non-4k sets in people's houses than 4k and most people rely on wifi in their homes so I'd probably call BS on your "majority".

The price point made it an obvious winner.
 
bwana said:
I'd be willing to bet there are more non-4k sets in people's houses than 4k and most people rely on wifi in their homes so I'd probably call BS on your "majority".

You don't think will look towards the future and think they buy based on what they're? Whew - that's short sited to buy for the immediate situation. I stopped buying anything 1080 in early 2017 knowing it'd need to be replaced within the year :/

bwana said:
The price point made it an obvious winner.
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True - what is the Roku saving? R100.00?

Personally, I'd rather pay the R100.00 and get UHD / HDR / HDMI 2.0 and know hardware wise, I'm pretty uptodate ...

EDIT : And when I say 'majority' , I know the rough sales figures of the Kwese 1080 box and the LIT ...
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Dolby said:
True - what is the Roku saving? R100.00?

Personally, I'd rather pay the R100.00 and get UHD / HDR / HDMI 2.0 and know hardware wise, I'm pretty uptodate ...
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It cost $29.

And these are the channels I run on them (give or take a few because I have't updated the list recently)

[table="width: 500"]
[tr]
[td]US Roku[/td]
[td]UK Roku[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]A&E
ABC
Amazon
Bloomberg TV
CBS Sports
Channel Pear
CNN Go
Crackle
Discovery Go
Discovery ID Go
Disney
Disney XD
ESPN
Food Network
Fox Business
Foxnow
Freeform
FXNow
HBO Go ABC
History
Hulu
Lifetime
MLB.tv
MTv
NatGeo TV
NBC
NBC Sport
Netflix
Nick
Nowhere TV
Plex
Popcornflix
Popcornflix Kids
Roku Newscaster
Showtime
Sky News
Starz
tubitv
tunein
TLC
Weather Underground
Youtube[/td]
[td]BBC iPlayer
BBC Sport
Channel 4
Demand 5
iTV
NowTV
Sky News[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
 
bwana said:
It cost $29.
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Again, your situation.

You don't need UHD ... You don't need HDR ... you don't need Ethernet ... You have a US$ account. None of those pertain to me, so knocking something because you can get better / cheaper overseas isn't really fair.

Last I checked, I had Rands in my wallet
 
Dolby said:
Ths is the cheapest we can get it locally, albeit excluding shipping and warranties?
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Nope - Amazon - less than R700 including any applicable taxes/duties.

DSTV hasn't made their apps available to the Roku so you're SOL on that.

As far as outdated - it plays netflix out of the box. Does the LIT?
 
bwana said:
As far as outdated - it plays netflix out of the box. Does the LIT?
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It's definitely outdated, bwana - it's a got WiFi chipset and HDMI from close on a decade back?
 
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