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  • 19-11-2017 6:43am
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    5CHULZY
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭


    hi im looking to get an IPTV box since the recent price increase to my virgin subscription. im looking to get something that is similar to the sky interface but im not sure wether to go for a mag box or a zgemma box. i would like to have the option to record programs while watching another one at the same time and have a user friendly EPG. any body have any ideas on what to get


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    #2
    blank_screen
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭blank_screen


    You may consider Android TV Box, does what you want and it's relatively cheap

    https://satellitedirect4u.com/best-3-android-tv-boxes-for-kodi-streaming-app/
    http://www.wirelesshack.org/android-tv-box-reviews.html
    http://hometheatrelife.com/best-android-tv-box/


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    blank_screen wrote: »
    You may consider Android TV Box, does what you want and it's relatively cheap

    https://satellitedirect4u.com/best-3-android-tv-boxes-for-kodi-streaming-app/
    http://www.wirelesshack.org/android-tv-box-reviews.html
    http://hometheatrelife.com/best-android-tv-box/

    Kodi is awful rubbish.

    Mag 256 is very good. Be careful and don't buy a clone.


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,990 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Kodi is awful rubbish.

    What do you think is wrong with Kodi?
    I find it the best piece of software for media purposes that I have tried.

    What would you use instead?
    Mag 256 is very good. Be careful and don't buy a clone.


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    What do you think is wrong with Kodi?
    I find it the best piece of software for media purposes that I have tried.

    What would you use instead?

    Quality is poor and the availability of streams changes constantly.

    I'd highly recommend proper IPTV. Not free but so far ahead of Kodi in terms of the two points I made above.


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    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,078 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Quality is poor and the availability of streams changes constantly.

    I'd highly recommend proper IPTV. Not free but so far ahead of Kodi in terms of the two points I made above.

    You can use Kodi with those streams,Kodi is not rubbish.


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    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,078 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Can anyone pm with a decent iptv package for Sky Channells.Its not for me,I have my own and its near perfect just a friend wants it,and wants decent Sky and BT and Racing channels.


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    the whole year inn wrote: »
    You can use Kodi with those streams,Kodi is not rubbish.

    Yes indeed you can, but isn't kodi just a complication in that case?


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    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,078 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Yes indeed you can, but isn't kodi just a complication in that case?

    No,for instance with my repository I can have a full epg on my channels,and I can record .I can also view my media on my computer from it and I have yet to have a file that wouldn't play.
    Theres also alot of free content if you know what you are searching for.
    What do you use,just IPTV and enter the username and password yea?


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,990 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    What do you think is wrong with Kodi?
    I find it the best piece of software for media purposes that I have tried.

    What would you use instead?
    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Quality is poor and the availability of streams changes constantly.

    I'd highly recommend proper IPTV. Not free but so far ahead of Kodi in terms of the two points I made above.

    Kodi is a media player and is not connected with the provision of any kind of IPTV, free or otherwise.

    So the availability or the quality of the streams you attempt to use has nothing at all to do with Kodi.

    It seems you completely misunderstand what Kodi is.

    This might help explain things
    https://kodi.tv/article/having-issues-free-movies-tv-shows-sports-iptv-streams
    Team Kodi (the unpaid volunteers who create Kodi and manage the Kodi name/brand for love not money) have never manufactured a "Kodi Box" and we do not supply media content. People who have been selling "Fully Loaded" devices on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, etc. or provide "IPTV Streaming" services with impossibly $cheap subscriptions to improbably $large selections of Movies, TV shows, Live Sports, etc. are not affiliated with the Kodi project. They are criminals who profit from piracy.


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    #11
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,078 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Kodi is a media player and is not connected with the provision of any kind of IPTV, free or otherwise.

    So the availability or the quality of the streams you attempt to use has nothing at all to do with Kodi.

    It seems you completely misunderstand what Kodi is.

    This might help explain things
    https://kodi.tv/article/having-issues-free-movies-tv-shows-sports-iptv-streams

    I have said it was a media player,you can see I said it plays files from my computer.But it also used with IPTV.


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,990 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Kodi is a media player and is not connected with the provision of any kind of IPTV, free or otherwise.

    So the availability or the quality of the streams you attempt to use has nothing at all to do with Kodi.

    It seems you completely misunderstand what Kodi is.

    This might help explain things
    https://kodi.tv/article/having-issues-free-movies-tv-shows-sports-iptv-streams
    the whole year inn wrote: »
    I have said it was a media player,you can see I said it plays files from my computer.But it also used with IPTV.

    Is there something in what I posted in response to another poster that you disagree with?

    I have no idea why you quoted my post and replied as you did. :confused:


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    NATLOR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭NATLOR


    5CHULZY wrote: »
    hi im looking to get an IPTV box since the recent price increase to my virgin subscription. im looking to get something that is similar to the sky interface but im not sure wether to go for a mag box or a zgemma box. i would like to have the option to record programs while watching another one at the same time and have a user friendly EPG. any body have any ideas on what to get

    Im getting this shortly its a dedicated IPTV box also running android 7

    Currently using an android box but I only use it for IPTV so according to all the research i have done this will give the best experience

    https://www.formuler.tv/z7plus


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Kodi is a media player and is not connected with the provision of any kind of IPTV, free or otherwise.

    So the availability or the quality of the streams you attempt to use has nothing at all to do with Kodi.

    It seems you completely misunderstand what Kodi is.

    This might help explain things
    https://kodi.tv/article/having-issues-free-movies-tv-shows-sports-iptv-streams

    I think you're right.

    All I've ever seen of Kodi are these android boxes which come with software for free tv movies and sports.

    Now that stuff is rubbish.


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    the whole year inn wrote: »
    No,for instance with my repository I can have a full epg on my channels,and I can record .I can also view my media on my computer from it and I have yet to have a file that wouldn't play.
    Theres also alot of free content if you know what you are searching for.
    What do you use,just IPTV and enter the username and password yea?

    Mag 256 plus a monthly IPTV sub. I can record (to an external drive) and have decent EPG also.

    You need fibre bb and an unlimited contract.

    I still have another Enigma2 device set for FTA sat which still works well.


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    #16
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,078 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    NATLOR wrote: »
    Im getting this shortly its a dedicated IPTV box also running android 7

    Currently using an android box but I only use it for IPTV so according to all the research i have done this will give the best experience

    https://www.formuler.tv/z7plus
    How much I don't see a price on it.


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    #17
    NATLOR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭NATLOR


    the whole year inn wrote: »
    How much I don't see a price on it.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-MODEL-DECEMBER-17-Formuler-Z7-Black-4K-WiFi-IPTV-Android-7-0-2GB-DDR4-/232578803499?hash=item3626c6e72b

    About a 10 day wait
    Need to use Parcel Motel/Wizard etc


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    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Be wary. There are lots of clones about and they are low quality. I'd always be inclined to use World of Satellite tbh


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    #19
    NATLOR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭NATLOR


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Be wary. There are lots of clones about and they are low quality. I'd always be inclined to use World of Satellite tbh

    Have used them before they are sound


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    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Can I emphasise that there are to be no links given or otherwise any discussion of any provider that claims to offer pay-TV channels for free.


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    #21
    gooner99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭gooner99


    I have zgemma h2s with ipab installed. Can someone please pm me details on using it as an IPTV box, sub provider, etc..


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    #22
    wizardman
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭wizardman


    gooner99 wrote: »
    I have zgemma h2s with ipab installed. Can someone please pm me details on using it as an IPTV box, sub provider, etc..

    Pm sent


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    #23
    Magoo462
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Magoo462


    Any chance you can pm me the instructions for Gemma too please


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    #24
    johnnyfruitcake
    Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭johnnyfruitcake


    Can someone pm me details of the best IPTV subs available please.


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    #25
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    same


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    #26
    elbyrneo
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭elbyrneo


    johnnyfruitcake wrote: »
    Can someone pm me details of the best IPTV subs available please.

    Same please


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    #27
    gunnerfitzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭gunnerfitzy


    same here please


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    #28
    BigCon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭BigCon


    #metoo


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    #29
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Looks like this thread is gone as far as it will go


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