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re: Amazon FireTV Stick, $19 for Prime members ($39 now) - 11/23 deals for $24
Posted on 12/1/14 at 11:50 am to TU Rob
Posted on 12/1/14 at 11:50 am to TU Rob
So has anyone had any issues with streaming live sports? I have a Roku 1 and have never had issues with WatchESPN on there. I got my Fire TV stick on Friday. Set it up and played around with it some. Got all of my Hulu and Netflix log ins entered and checked it out. I was streaming some CFB games on Saturday and a couple of times in the Florida FSU game it would buffer. And I was watching the Pregame before the Iron Bowl and it did the same. I ended up bringing the Roku down to the living room to watch the Iron Bowl because I didn't want any issues during that game.
Is this an ESPN thing being that both were big games? The stick did fine on anything not live. But that is one reason I bought it.
Is this an ESPN thing being that both were big games? The stick did fine on anything not live. But that is one reason I bought it.
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Posted on 12/1/14 at 3:25 pm to TU Rob
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So has anyone had any issues with streaming live sports?
I didn't have any trouble streaming live WatchESPN, but I did have the device lock up when leaving the app twice, both times after having the stream go for a good while. It was unresponsive, then went to home menu and scrolled through all crazy like, and I had to unplug it. Wondering if it was a processing power or overheating issue. I had some stutter with Plex, that I didn't have when using a Chromecast as well. Me thinks it's those apps being written for the Fire TV and not being optimized yet for a less powerful device. I sure hope so, because otherwise it is a great little device, and my wife finds it much easier to use than the lack of UI of the Chromecast.
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