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3.0 out of 5 starsBad interface, no Kayo, not a keeper for me, but it is one of the cheaper options you'll have.
Reviewed in Australia on 5 July 2022
GOOD: Cheapest price for main tv boxes (wait for a sale), voice recognition is good, screen quality fine, Peacock works w/VPN while Google dongle will not.
BAD: Most everything else. No Kayo. Only parental controls is you have to PIN every single app or move. Painful. The interface is bad, you can only pin 6 apps to your homescreen, no app live channels like on Shield (mostly Prime videos), all sideloaded apps are in an ugly grey background with the app logo shrunken down tiny in the middle, they've broken LM so you can't attach custom launcher to Home button, no Chromecast, remote feels very cheap, did successfully remap buttons with adb commands and paid software, you can no longer use Button Mapper. They tried to remove Dev Options don't like the way the wind is blowing there. Unlike Google and Nvidia they don't include a power adapter or batteries for the remote. It's the little things. Volume controls worked fine on my TV but gave to my brother and it doesn't work on his, though his TV is probably 10 years old now. The lack of Kayo is just a huge no for me and no, it will not work sideloaded either. I couldn't even get it to work via browser. They're blocking it that way too. I guess that one is on me for not checking, though I didn't think I'd have to check.
