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11-27-2018, 10:01 AM | #106 | |
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Like the Fire tablet and everything else Amazon has the fire stick just felt like nothing more than a big ad to push you into buying stuff. Screw that. |
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11-27-2018, 10:04 AM | #107 |
'Tis my eye!
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If nothing else, the lack of response to complaints smells of shenanigans...
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11-27-2018, 10:46 AM | #108 | |
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I don't have a dog in the fight, and I'm certainly not going to battle for Amazon, but the fire stick is cheap as **** and works pretty good for me. |
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11-27-2018, 10:47 AM | #109 |
Go Beavers!
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We've had a 50" Samsung plasma for what seems like forever and it's still going strong. It's fine for watching TV but has started to feel small when watching movies, especially the movies shot in 2.35:1.
I started researching 65" TVs and the wife put her foot down and stated she didn't want a bigger TV in the living room, especially for watching regular TV shows. I had a 720p projector before we got the plasma so I started researching new projectors. BenQ was running a Black Friday deal on their 1080p and some 4K projectors from mid-November to mid-December. Then on the actual Black Friday, projectorpeople.com was running an addition 4% off plus a free ceiling mount so I picked up the BenQ HT2550 4K projector for around $1040. It's not "true" 4K because it uses pixel shifting to achieve the 8 whatever million pixels but I don't really care. My eyes aren't good enough to discern the difference anyway. All reviews said it had a a great picture even with some ambient light so that's good enough for me. My main concern was that I saw rainbows with my old DLP projector and this is also a DLP but it has the newer RGBRGB wheel which is supposed to eliminate the rainbow effect. All in all, I hope this is a good compromise for movie watching. |
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11-27-2018, 10:56 AM | #110 |
Ain't no relax!
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I've had a FireTV for many years, and it's never once disabled Netflix. I have many friends and family with one as well, and I've never heard of such a thing. Short of the current lack of native Youtube and YoutubeTV access, the FireTV has been a great device for the people I've set it up for. I've found Roku is way too limited in what you can install on it.
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11-27-2018, 11:35 AM | #111 | |
Scarlett Johansson's boytoy
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agreed, I have 2 firesticks, one 1st gen and one 2nd gen, neither have this issue. |
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11-27-2018, 01:44 PM | #112 | |
Psycho Bag Of Squanch
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11-27-2018, 02:11 PM | #113 |
Ain't no relax!
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Nah, Amazon devices don't require any jailbreaking at all. They allow you to sideload any .apk you want. They're actually very developer friendly in that regard. And technically a "Netflix crash" is a very different thing than "Netflix disabled" which is why you see lots of results.
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11-27-2018, 02:18 PM | #114 |
'Tis my eye!
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It's definitely not a "crash". Once or twice a week, it wouldn't login, instead asking for her username and password (or to start a free trial, as if she had never signed in). Entering a username and password would be met with an invalid login error.
Clearing the data cache (or removing and reinstalling the app) was the only way to fix it. |
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11-27-2018, 02:20 PM | #115 | |
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11-27-2018, 02:23 PM | #116 | |
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11-27-2018, 02:31 PM | #117 | |
Ain't no relax!
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11-27-2018, 02:39 PM | #118 | |
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11-27-2018, 02:43 PM | #119 | |
'Tis my eye!
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I think the voice search might be a big part of the experience. Her stick was the one right before they added the voice remote. I had to show her at least 2 or 3 times a month how to find Hulu and Netflix because the apps are buried in the Amazon-centric UI. |
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11-27-2018, 05:02 PM | #120 | |
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