Youtube cutting access to Amazon Fire TV on January 1st

[Demache]

[QUOTE=waylander;52950611]I got a chomecast with Google home and it was really easy to use with local cast, recently though I noticed it lacks a lot of codec support so I went back to using a pi3

The pi can be really annoying some times, the interface is slow and it corrupts your SD card whenever it wants even if your careful about power cycling it[/QUOTE]

If all you use your PI for is Kodi, install an "embedded" OS like OSMC. Its optimized for using Kodi on the Pi so there is very little overhead. Its pretty quick on the PI 3. Animations are stuck at 30 fps, and are downgraded to 10 fps intentionally during playback, since its robs valuable CPU time, but its quick, at the cost of not being buttery smooth.

[That Deer]

Whenever I hear Amazon Fire, all I can imagine is Gary Busey screaming "AMAZON FIRE TV SSSSSSTICK" into my face during the commercials.

[Octane]

Roku Master race.

[Danneh]

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;52950224]My FireTV stick is now useless again. Well, back to using a PS3[/QUOTE]

Did you miss my post? The Fire TV is probably more useful than your PS3 unless you have CFW

[gk99]

[QUOTE=Savage Octane;52953662]Roku Master race.[/QUOTE]

The cool kids use a Steam Link

[editline]8th December 2017[/editline]

[QUOTE=djjkxbox;52956672]Did you miss my post? The Fire TV is probably more useful than your PS3 unless you have CFW[/QUOTE]

If he was only using it for YouTube somehow I doubt his PS3 is less useful in any circumstance.

[helifreak]

[QUOTE=Mitsuma;52949893]Not sure I will put this on YouTube.
Amazon is notorious for keeping their own stuff to their ecosystem.
Even if their versions are pretty shit they try to push that instead of integrating in better existing solutions.
Not that I ever had a problem paying with Amazon for example but why can't I just use PayPal there too.
The free games from Twitch Prime also all run over their own Twitch App instead of getting Steam keys.[/QUOTE]

Wish more places took Amazon Payments, it's miles ahead of PayPal but apart from Amazon themselves only a single place I've used has it.

[Jeezy]

I like my FireTV, use it all the time for Sling since it's not available on the PS4. At least it wasn't back when I first looked. It was only $10 more than the Roku at the time, and has been reliable. (Yes I know Sling is available on the Roku)

This move won't really bother me that much since I never used YouTube on it, my computer is right next to my TV, but I can see why it bothers other people. However I see Amazon eventually caving in especially when their commercials for the FireTV often show the user using YouTube.