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How To Choose The Best Android TV Box 2017

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Wondering the best way to watch Kodi? Here are the best Kodi-friendly Android TV boxes available right now

Buying an Android TV box is an absolute minefield. Chances are you’ve ended up here because you either know what an Android TV box is and want some buying advice, or you’ve been advised by others that an Android TV box is the solution to your streaming problems but have no idea what one is. If it’s the latter, I have some bad news: no-one really knows what an Android TV box is – there’s no general definition for these streaming boxes, and it appears that some don’t even run Android TV.

Confused? You should be: the Android TV box market is a confusing place. However, with our guide, you can safely navigate your way to the best Android TV box.

What is an Android TV box?

If you don’t know what an Android TV box is, it’s a small set-top box – about the size of an Apple TV – that runs on Google’s Android operating system, or a re-skinned version of it. This means it’s an incredibly flexible device that allows you to stream content to your TV over the internet or from local storage on the device.

These Android TV boxes come in various guises but many of them market themselves as Kodi or XBMC devices. If you decide to brave the wildlands of eBay, you’ll find many devices calling themselves Android TV boxes, claiming to come “unlocked” or preloaded with hundreds of channels and free content. Resist temptation – these devices are technically illegal.

This is where Android TV boxes start to venture into strange legal territory. To get the functionality many of you are hoping for, the easiest route is to purchase one of these legally grey devices. However, the Kodi platform isn’t actually illegal to use – the way you decide to acquire the content to stream could be – and you’re better off buying an off-the-shelf streaming box and installing Kodi onto it yourself if you want to stay on the right side of the law.

Streaming media players suitable for home

Streaming Media Players Suitable for Home

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Streaming media players like the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast might seem more at home in the lounge room than the boardroom, but these tiny wireless gadgets offer a great way to fling presentations and other content around your office.

No matter how articulate you are in the boardroom, sometimes it’s more powerful to show people what you mean rather than just talking them through it. A new generation of slick presentation tools have helped us escape from PowerPoint hell, but there’s still the challenge of getting your presentation up on the big screen.

It’s easy to spend a lot of money setting up an expensive networked multimedia system in your office, but before you splash some cash it’s worth considering whether a simple streaming media player like the Apple TV or Google’s Chromecast could be the solution to your problems.

They’re best known as the easiest way to get streaming video services like Netflix into your lounge room, but these devices also let you mirror the desktop from your computer, smartphone or tablet. You can plug a player into any monitor, television or projector with an HDMI video port, giving it a wireless overhaul so it’s easy to fling video to it. This is even more convenient if you regularly waste time during meetings waiting for one person to relinquish control of the big screen while the next person fumbles with the cables they need to connect.

As you’d expect, the Apple TV is a very Apple-centric device, designed to play nicely with iPhones, iPads and Macs using Apple’s AirPlay streaming format. You can easily mirror the screen from any of these Apple devices, and many iOS apps have built-in AirPlay video support.

If you’re only interested in AirPlay then an old third generation Apple TV should do the job, and you’ll find them for less than $100. The newer fourth generation Apple TV starts at $239, but in return you gain the ability to run a wide range of third-party apps.

There’s no official Android support for AirPlay. You’ll find third-party apps in the Google Play store that support AirPlay video streaming, such as Allcast, AppleTV AirPlay Media Player and AirScreen – AirPlay & iTunes, but the results can be hit and miss.

Meanwhile Google’s Chromecast is more flexible—it’s designed to mirror the screen from an Android device, Windows PC or Mac, plus mirroring is built into the Chrome desktop browser. You’ll pick up the Chromecast for around $59, or you can step up to the $99 Chromecast Ultra, which supports Ultra HD resolution.

Streaming to a Chromecast from an iGadget is slightly less convenient. You can’t mirror the screen but you can mirror Chromecast-compatible apps—not just multimedia apps like Netflix and YouTube, but also Google’s apps like Google Slides for presentations and Google Photos for images and video clips.

Choosing between Google’s Chromecast and the Apple TV comes down to what devices you’ll need to connect—you might even decide it’s worth having one of each. Once they’re set up, it’s simple to get your big ideas up on the big screen in the office.

Avoid penalty from Kodi fully Pre-loaded

Avoid Penalty from Kodi Fully Pre-loaded

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Kodi is open-source software designed specifically with home entertainment in mind – and it’s totally free. Although it was originally created for the Microsoft Xbox and called Xbox Media Center (XBMC), the software has continued to evolve, spawning a community of its own.
There are many streaming apps on the market but Kodi is the best known at the moment. Some of these are of questionable legality because they give access to the latest movies, pay-per-views and Premier League football.
Since Amazon issues its new policy in 2017 which has been proved by some Amazon TV BOX or streaming media player sellers, a big action has taken by many related parties.
How are TV BOX manufacturers avoiding penalty from Kodi fully Pre-loaded? Many of them are hinting that TV BOX buyers can download the apps they need (like Kodi and its Add-ons) with one-click only. And this can be hidden and operated at the remote controller.
Actually, Amazon official website states:
“Products offered for sale on Amazon should not promote, suggest the facilitation of, or actively enable the infringement of or unauthorized access to digital media or other protected content. Any streaming media player or other device that violates this policy is prohibited from sale on Amazon.
It is obviously that the measure that TV manufactures take is against Amazon’s policy. Mr. Schneider, a TV BOX policy researcher says that Amazon or Government will have new policies against the facilitation of the infringement of or unauthorized access to digital media or other protected content.

Which TV Box Is Good To Use?

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Which TV Box or network set-top box is good for you? Three standards to choose a TV Box should be remembered recommended to you.
Heat Dissipation. Now, with the pursuit of good-looking appearance of TV box shape, the fuselage is getting smaller and smaller, then the heat dissipation is a big problem that can not be ignored, especially in summer. If the heat dissipation is not good enough, the box will get hot and problem may be serious, crash and a series of problems such as black screen will happen.
HD Video Playback Experience. We know SMALLRT TV Box through its TVMC app side, which means TV Market Center, and used widely to watch online video.