[Fredman]

Looking for someone to install a fire stick. Willing to pay an reasonable amount
412-585-6668

[EdFNJ]

"Install it" or "load it up" ? Installing it simply requires plugging it in an available HDMI port on your TV and following the instructions that come with it to connect to WIFI. Loading it with "other stuff" than what it comes with may present some legal issues depending on what you are loading it with. I'd gladly do the "former" for free (if there is access to the back of the TV) as that is a 3 minute job assuming you have WIFI as for the "latter" you'd have to find someone else.

[Babubhat]

Roku is a much better device. I have both and detest the fire stick

[SFSkol]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Roku is a much better device. I have both and detest the fire stick

I have both, I prefer Firestick by far. I find the Roku interface difficult at times.

But, I also prefer vanilla ice cream.

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by Fredman

Looking for someone to install a fire stick. Willing to pay an reasonable amount
412-585-6668

You really should do it yourself it’s not difficult at all

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Fredman

Looking for someone to install a fire stick. Willing to pay an reasonable amount
412-585-6668

If you can connect the fire stick device to an HDMI port, set your TV to look at that port, then enter your wifi password you have everything you need to configure it yourself.

My father and my in-laws would not be able to do all that so I set up their devices. Unfortunately, I have commitments all morning.

[JerryP]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Roku is a much better device. I have both and detest the fire stick

What exactly makes Roku better than the fire stick?

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by JerryP

What exactly makes Roku better than the fire stick?

One reason is that the Firestick is made by Amazon, and like other Amazon devices, they try to restrict or block some apps from being installed on the stick for proprietary reasons. Apparently, there are ways to work around some of these restrictions, but why bother? The Roku doesn't have these restrictions.

[PoolBrews]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

One reason is that the Firestick is made by Amazon, and like other Amazon devices, they try to restrict or block some apps from being installed on the stick for proprietary reasons. Apparently, there are ways to work around some of these restrictions, but why bother? The Roku doesn't have these restrictions.

This post is so wrong, not sure where to start. I've owned both. I've been in IT at fortune 500 companies for 40 years, so I understand technology.

Roku is a hardware device - there is no OS to speak of. If Roku doesn't allow the app to run, it doesn't run. Period. Case in point is their recent fiasco with YouTube TV. If you didn't have the app installed already, you were screwed as Roku didn't allow you to load it (and there is NO work around).

FireStick is an actual android device running android OS (similar to your phone). This allows you to easily sideload any app IF Amazon tries to block it (they haven't blocked any apps to date, unlike Roku).

In addition, I can run VPN on FireStick - I can't on Roku.

Not arguing as to which is better, just replying to the post concerning restricting apps on a FireStick. I haven't seen it, but anyone wanting YouTube TV over the past 8 months has witnessed it on Roku.

I like both device interfaces, but Roku lost me forever when they decided to shutdown access to the single most popular streaming service in the US. I had 3 Roku's at the time, and switched to FireSticks when one of the Roku's lost the YouTube TV app.

[Jimbob the Newbie]

Use this guide. It's perfectly legal and allowed.

How to Jailbreak FireStick [New Secrets Unlocked in Dec 2021]

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by PoolBrews

This post is so wrong, not sure where to start. I've owned both. I've been in IT at fortune 500 companies for 40 years, so I understand technology.

Roku is a hardware device - there is no OS to speak of. If Roku doesn't allow the app to run, it doesn't run. Period. Case in point is their recent fiasco with YouTube TV. If you didn't have the app installed already, you were screwed as Roku didn't allow you to load it (and there is NO work around).

FireStick is an actual android device running android OS (similar to your phone). This allows you to easily sideload any app IF Amazon tries to block it (they haven't blocked any apps to date, unlike Roku).

In addition, I can run VPN on FireStick - I can't on Roku.

Not arguing as to which is better, just replying to the post concerning restricting apps on a FireStick. I haven't seen it, but anyone wanting YouTube TV over the past 8 months has witnessed it on Roku.

I like both device interfaces, but Roku lost me forever when they decided to shutdown access to the single most popular streaming service in the US. I had 3 Roku's at the time, and switched to FireSticks when one of the Roku's lost the YouTube TV app.

As I understand it, you can now install the youtube tv app on a Roku device. Even when they blocked it, you could still access youtube tv from the youtube app. I don't know of any other apps that are blocked by Roku.

The Firestick, and other Amazon devices, are not a true Android devices. For example, they do not support the Google Play Store app without doing a sideload installation. I once tried to install the Google Play Store app on a Fire 7 tablet, but the installation failed due to an insufficient amount of memory.

Every independent review of streaming devices I have read rank the Roku devices higher than the Firestick. I own several Amazon devices, including tablets and Ereaders. They are good, economical devices. But, for streaming videos and movies, I think the Roku is a better way to go.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by Jimbob the Newbie

Use this guide. It's perfectly legal and allowed.

How to Jailbreak FireStick [New Secrets Unlocked in Dec 2021]

First of all they aren't being "jailbroken" because they aren't in jail (or locked blocked or anything else) it's just loading programs.

There is absolutely NOTHING illegal about installing KODI, what is illegal is what you do with it which is the obvious meaning behind your comment and the article you posted.

No one is going to be arrested (not really true) but that doesn't make it "legal" or "right" and saying so is not being truthful.

This kind of explains it:
Youtube: Four arrested for selling illegal Amazon Fire TV Sticks - YouTube
Article: Suspects sold ‘jail broken’ Amazon Fire Sticks at Florida flea market, deputies say

[Jimbob the Newbie]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

First of all they aren't being "jailbroken" because they aren't in jail (or locked blocked or anything else) it's just loading programs.

There is absolutely NOTHING illegal about installing KODI, what is illegal is what you do with it which is the obvious meaning behind your comment and the article you posted.

No one is going to be arrested (not really true) but that doesn't make it "legal" or "right" and saying so is not being truthful.

This kind of explains it:
Youtube: Four arrested for selling illegal Amazon Fire TV Sticks - YouTube
Article: Suspects sold ‘jail broken’ Amazon Fire Sticks at Florida flea market, deputies say

Thank you for interpreting my post for me. I was merely quoting the opening line of the website. And what it says , and what you said, is absolutely true: there is nothing illegal about using KODI or Venom with an opened Fire Stick, just as there is nothing illegal about driving your car at the speed limit. What you choose to do with the apps, or your car, is up to you.

[JoelJohnson]

TROYPOINT - Firestick, Android TV Box, Kodi, VPN & Streaming Tutorials this site will walk you through the set up.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by Jimbob the Newbie

Thank you for interpreting my post for me. I was merely quoting the opening line of the website. And what it says , and what you said, is absolutely true: there is nothing illegal about using KODI or Venom with an opened Fire Stick, just as there is nothing illegal about driving your car at the speed limit. What you choose to do with the apps, or your car, is up to you.

Except there probably aren't 2 people in 1 million (hyperbole of course as I have no real data) who doesn't load those apps only to get free stuff they should be paying for.

Just to be transparent ..... I've done it for a few days because I like to mess with that kind of stuff and found mostly crap quality and erased the stick (still have it in my drawer if anyone wants to buy a factory reset 4K Firestick since I now use Apple TV) and I've also driven my golf cart and car over the speed limit and have watched movies and listened to music I should have paid for. My point is all the posters who make it seem like it's just the normal thing to do then out of the other side of their mouth complain that someone is breaking the law by walking on the wrong side of the road bugs me.