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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it's much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don't use these things).

[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what is a streambox?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A pc or android running Plex and or Kodi on the front end.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's just a normal Media PC.

I think they are referring specifically to a PC that streams from those crappy streaming sites and not downloading the movies locally.

You can do that with Kodi but not Plex.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

I meant something with peerflix inside, to stream torrented stuff.