Server4You Review

scottalanmiller

ACD + Fire TV is a huge win. I mean truly epic for us. I can't believe how good it is turning out to be.

dafyre

ACD + Fire TV is a huge win. I mean truly epic for us. I can't believe how good it is turning out to be.

We have a Roku 3 and it works flawlessly with Plex. One of the reasons I haven't ripped my entire library yet is because I had not space to store it. Not a problem at all now!

Plus, you can share your Plex libraries with others... as long as you don't have 10 or 20 people playing videos out of your Plex + Amazon system, Amazon shouldn't complain either way.

scottalanmiller

With my new setup, I don't need Plex at all, which is awesome. One step leaner than even that.

Alex Sage

I am guessing that Amazon is going to back off the unlimited storage just like Microsoft did.....

scottalanmiller

@anonymous said:

I am guessing that Amazon is going to back off the unlimited storage just like Microsoft did.....

I'm guessing very much the opposite. Lots of reasons but here is why I think this...

There is no connection between them and that MS did this in no way suggests that anyone else will.
Amazon said unlimited, backing off would be foolish.
Amazon is making a huge point of encouraging the very behaviour that MS called ridiculous
Amazon has so much more capacity than MS, the issues facing MS do not face Amazon

I haven't seen any reason to be suspicious of Amazon not keeping the unlimited feature around. MS was always sketchy on their large capacities, Amazon has never been.

scottalanmiller

For example, MS said "it's like people are uploading their movie collections here."

Amazon, on the other hand, is spending money to not just let you upload your movie collections but is actively building features around making that the killer feature of the storage platform!

dafyre

I may Nab the FireTV in a last-minute Christmas Special or something, lol. Is it pretty much just Android (or Amazon's take on it?) or is it something completely Amazon?

Since you have one, can you check and see if the SlingTV app is available on it?

scottalanmiller

Fire TV is an Android device but with Amazon's own store on it. It's very limited in use, but that's what makes it nice too. You can only do so much with it, but it works well for what it is. It comes in tiny, cheap stick models or 4K set top box models. Prices I've seen are from $25 to $75 when on sale. Unless you get the gaming one like me that includes a 32GB SD card, $50 game controller and two games as well.

scottalanmiller

The Fire TV is an NVidia Tegra K1 quad core 64bit RISC processor with 192 cores of GPU as well. It's pretty impressive.

dafyre

So to get the Google Store, you have to root it and upload the Google Apps?

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

So to get the Google Store, you have to root it and upload the Google Apps?

Correct.