The Droid TV thread

cenredash said:
Ripper can run through kodi or stand alone iptv apps like perfect player. Kodi via simple iptv
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With ripper do you get dead links or slow starting?
Is it a worthy paid alternative to DSTV?
What about buffering? What is your internet speed?
 
Otttv , £6,50. You get a crap load of channels. UK, US, AUS, CAN,NZ. Plus sky sports
 
[email protected] said:
My MXQ box has a Rockchip, and Netflix has stopped working for the last week or so. I don't have DSTV Now on there, so not sure about that. Netflix support has been less than helpful, just saying its not a supported box, and I have to buy something else. Anyone know if there's a relatively easy way of getting Netflix to work again on that box?
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If thats their attitude > Terrarium Tv.
 
tRoN said:
With ripper do you get dead links or slow starting?
Is it a worthy paid alternative to DSTV?
What about buffering? What is your internet speed?
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There are very few dead links that I have come across but there are hundreds of channels. For popular sports channels there are usually three stream quality channels as well as a backup or two of them HD or FHD streams.

Slow starts and buffering were common when I used the smart tv interface on my oldish Samsung plasma TV. A bit less slow when I used the Minix Neo x6 but near instantaneous for the mibox and Telkom lit.

It depends on what you need from dstv. I've only had it for 10 weeks so don't know about SA rugby and cricket esp domestic but major intetnational sports are more than covered adequately. There are a lot of entertainment channels so depends on use case but unless you want specific dstv/sa programmes it is worthy. 9.5 GBP per month but I took a year at 70GBP to trial it as I want to cut the dstv cord and do for the year it costs 1.6 months dstv I thought it is a good trial.

My Internet is fibre capped at 20/10 from axxess.

One final thing is that I get some buffering say 15-20 percent of the time on random channels although not sports channels unless I am trying to show my non tech savvy wife or father in law how great iptv is at which point it buffers. So deoends. If I watch alone it is near perfect but if I try to show someone something quickly it stops working 50 percent of the time.

Dstv is easier to use if you don't like messing around with looking for stuff. It isn't difficult operating it but yah. Use cases vary. It wins hands down on money saving and content availability.
 
cenredash said:
There are very few dead links that I have come across but there are hundreds of channels. For popular sports channels there are usually three stream quality channels as well as a backup or two of them HD or FHD streams.

Slow starts and buffering were common when I used the smart tv interface on my oldish Samsung plasma TV. A bit less slow when I used the Minix Neo x6 but near instantaneous for the mibox and Telkom lit.

It depends on what you need from dstv. I've only had it for 10 weeks so don't know about SA rugby and cricket esp domestic but major intetnational sports are more than covered adequately. There are a lot of entertainment channels so depends on use case but unless you want specific dstv/sa programmes it is worthy. 9.5 GBP per month but I took a year at 70GBP to trial it as I want to cut the dstv cord and do for the year it costs 1.6 months dstv I thought it is a good trial.

My Internet is fibre capped at 20/10 from axxess.

One final thing is that I get some buffering say 15-20 percent of the time on random channels although not sports channels unless I am trying to show my non tech savvy wife or father in law how great iptv is at which point it buffers. So deoends. If I watch alone it is near perfect but if I try to show someone something quickly it stops working 50 percent of the time.

Dstv is easier to use if you don't like messing around with looking for stuff. It isn't difficult operating it but yah. Use cases vary. It wins hands down on money saving and content availability.
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Thanks for the comprehensive reply.

Lol. You right about the buffering or dead links. Whenever you have the family gathered or showing off the darn thing always freezes!!

And yes. The wife and kids get irritated about not being able to “find their channels” easily in a streaming service.

Maybe one day we can get a set top box streaming experience.
 
tRoN said:
Thanks for the comprehensive reply.

Lol. You right about the buffering or dead links. Whenever you have the family gathered or showing off the darn thing always freezes!!

And yes. The wife and kids get irritated about not being able to “find their channels” easily in a streaming service.

Maybe one day we can get a set top box streaming experience.
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Lol @ comprehensive reply.
I was looking for especially local experience and information on IPTV before I took the plunge and couldn't find much, so hopefully someone finds it useful.

With SimpleIPTV it is getting a lot better and both that and the Extreme IPTV app it has been improving. You are also able to make favourite channel groups but it is a schlep, and when it gets to about 30 then you end up with the same scrolling problem.

I think the technology behind the showing off of "things that work great when you're alone" is bandwidth and number of eyes. The more eyes in the room that looks at streaming it needs more bandwidth which causes the buffering :-)
 
cenredash said:
Lol @ comprehensive reply.
I was looking for especially local experience and information on IPTV before I took the plunge and couldn't find much, so hopefully someone finds it useful.

With SimpleIPTV it is getting a lot better and both that and the Extreme IPTV app it has been improving. You are also able to make favourite channel groups but it is a schlep, and when it gets to about 30 then you end up with the same scrolling problem.

I think the technology behind the showing off of "things that work great when you're alone" is bandwidth and number of eyes. The more eyes in the room that looks at streaming it needs more bandwidth which causes the buffering :-)
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Nope, you are wrong... Stutter comes from poor supplied streaming!
 
For the guys that run iptv (ripper, ottv...): Do channels buffer? I am running ultimatemania and I rarely get to stream without channels buffering at some point.
 
mercury12 said:
For the guys that run iptv (ripper, ottv...): Do channels buffer? I am running ultimatemania and I rarely get to stream without channels buffering at some point.
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Never had a channel buffer on otttv, I do get the occasional kick out, but then I just go back to the channel and it works fine. I’ve noticed that a lot of my kick outs happen when I use a TV guide like mayfair or some such
 
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