STOP Buying ANDROID TV Boxes!

Feels like a sponsored video by certain companys that want to eliminate a cheaper better alternative. 🤔

Had smart boxes for years can highly recommend it, its cheap its good!
And unlike chromecast you can watch more than 2 minutes before it drops connectivity and you dont have to install scetchy apps on the phone.
Not do you 200-400 dollars extra on a tv function thats works like shit literally aka Samsung.

U got to laugh at some of the comments, half dont even know how to jaibreak them, some probably dont know how to turn them on😂😂😂😂

I too had a bunch of those android boxes and then bought the shield (tube version). a massive difference, should have got the tube to begin with. I'll buy the new version, if it ever surfaces

Stick with Nvidia Shield

What about the xiaomi mibox S ?

at $200 you could just buy an old office mini PC, like a VESA mount PC, and use that. Sack off android, it's far easier to ethically and legally stream content on windows anyway

Ya I'll keep my android box ..Used them several years .. LOL ..

But jailbreaking a firestick and putting stremio on it is easy. My 60yo dad did it.

Last year I tried a few popular 4k streaming boxes and only the Nvidia shield and apple tv 4k could reliably run 4k. I liked amazon fire more than roku. Roku was disappointing because of all the good things I heard about it. Roku is good for your grandma because it's super simple and hard to mess up. I kept the shield in the end because of the developer options and custom launchers.

ofcourse they ruined this market aswell… iuse a amazon fire jailbroked // old roku boxes and or connect a hdmi adapter on a old phone, that has no info tied and crack the tv apps myself using lucky patcher and a vpn for kodi it should run like 25$ for a dongle if you got an extra phone ina drawer

why do people buy this crap? Just hook up an old PC and run Linux.

Where to buy?

Does anyone know the brand the hoodie/jacket Linus is wearing? Really like it

For me i don't use amlogic android tv boxes for Android, there is an amazing small yet big enough open source community for those things, we have EmuELEC and Lakka for retro gaming, we have LibreELEC And CoreELEC for kodi media center, we have somewhat official linux manjaro support, we have armbian that has two build one on top of debian and one on top of ubuntu.

I dont know why ANYONE would buy one of these things nowadays for watching tv or movies when you can do the EXACT same thing with any computer, phone or smart tv.

The cheapest android TV that is actually worth a damn is without a doubt MECOOL boxes. KM7 Plus or KM9 Pro are both great. Even the KD3 is pretty decent, but you get a little bit of sluggishness on Google TVs homepage, but as long as you close apps in settings its not that bad.

So get an Apple TV, got it.

have you thought about getting rid of android and setting up armbian on a android tv box?
if you still want to use it for the intended purpose, you can then run kodi on it… or use it for something else entirely.

a pre rooted device from china- where do i sign up lolz

For US, yes they can, but for us in south east asia, this is the cheapest we can afford sadly 😢

if that is true.. Could that also be possible on Andriod TVs? Please check it out and make a content about this if you find anything.

Amazon fire stick is also good device.

What about the ONN TV box Walmart sells? I travel so I need something that can login into hotel wifi that uses a captive portal so the chrome cast is out.

All china products that have software yes and Amazon practically single-handed funds the communist China military by allowing the sale of china products …about 90% of Amazon it from China the USA been sold out to our enemies

The condom… flol

Why not! I have android box, false google account and sim card internet only for that android box. Noone knows my password and that box is only for music.

What about Nvidia Shield? Is it safe?

I never understood why people buy this crap anyway when they cost about the same as a firestick, roku, or chromecast. Heck, Walmart sells Onn devices for $20 these days. Usually the appeal to cheap Chinese knockoffs is lower price… but these aren't. And half of these off-brand companies won't even be around 2 years from now, so good luck if you need support. Why bother?

Am I missing something? Can they do things a chromecast or firestick can't? Serious question.

Holy crap Linus… You of all people should know that it's just hardware until you start pumping current through it… Is this stuff mostly fake? Yes! Are the chips all closed source because it's pretty much stolen architecture? Yes! Do these boxes overheat on a comfortable spring day? Yes! But nonetheless it's just dead hardware until you boot anything. Ever heard of openelec/coreelec/libreelec? These boxes are pretty much shipped with the sole intention of being used to dual boot from an SD flash card. Sure you can buy a Nvidia accredited box like the shield, but ever since they nuked gamestream, you're better off buying an amlogic soc. Spyware and backdoors are manageable if you don't even attempt to boot the os they're nested in. Remember the cheap ass netbooks that came with just an ancient OS like Ms dos because law prohibited retailers from selling them without a preinstalled os? This is the same! Nobody buys these boxes to actually use the software that's on them.

There's so many more open source projects on GitHub to utilize the full potential of these cheap ass disposable boxes… So please tell me you've been instructed to say these things for a nice fee and don't actually stand by them.

Luv ya 😘

Been using one of these stupid things for years. I dont understand 90% of the terms used here. I'm scared. Thanks.

Is the nifty box and other similar car android auto Apple play boxes the same ?

Nvidia shield you don't need to worry about malware coming on it atleast that is what I have used forever.
That or just set up a raspberry pi (although those have been expensive lately last I looked due to stock issues but that was like a year ago so could be better dunno.)

what guarantees that the other American devices are not infected with Trojans?…..

Strange how VPN is not your sponsor today, since you just told us these cheap devices can destroy your VPN network. Good job shooting your sponsor in the foot.

I have two and never had any problem. I live in Brazil, the subscription here could get , with all channels like 1/4 of the minimum wage of the country, explored by multinational companies mostly from your country off course. We are not in war with china so that's ok.

How about android tv's? They also require the same details for set-up and are connected to the network

Nvidia Shield.

I had subtitles on and it just threw at my screen the whole script for the video at once.

Welcome to the great pirate era. (One piece intro music)

I cannot believe we got BACK to the point of buying malware in physical point

I dont know why anyone would still buy these since the Firestick came out. It runs Android and can install any app you can put on an Android box.

Headline is a bit clickbaity, IMO. Android boxes can be great devices if you know your way around what's under the hood; it's a cheap alternative to the more expensive offerings, but requires a little DIY tweaking. Oftentimes, there's a clean custom ROM available for these devices, or you can simply factory reset and clean up the stock rom.

With this video, I ask myself… it is ok to buy pc parts in aliexpress ? or is a possibility to buy a motherboard full of malware?

I am just using these things to install armbian and amateur radio apps…. the T95 from what I see should be a bit better than the Quadra. I will soon find out when I overwrite or at least attempt to overwrite the T95 Max OS.