If you like to be frustrated - this is for you!
I dislike giving negative reviews as an exception for this product here it goes: I was not expecting a top of the line TV box at this price but this was the most frustrating experience I have ever gone through to set up. 1. My Password for the network has a couple of special characters in it.. The built in virtual keyboard does have those characters - however you need to hold a button down to access them - and if you then try to select the character the keyboard reverts back to the ABC layout. 2. The TIme defaulted to 1 Jan 1970, ok in the settings I choose to use network time - which it did. A few minutes later I could not get to youtube - check your time? and there was once again Jan 1 1970. So, I manually set the time - an hour or two later the time was back to 1 Jan 1970. This issue continued and I could not fix it. 3. The interface is a mess. Some of the quick links for apps can be changed but for some reason when I clicked on the remote menu button the App was changed to the calculator - and from the available app menu YouTube was not listed and thus I could not add it back to the list. So, each time I wanted to use YouTube I had to navigate to another area to access it from the master list of installed apps. 4. The "free" keyboard uses a proprietary rechargeable battery - which needed to be charged. No Simple AA or AAA here. 5. The power source and HDMI cables are both about 2 feet long - so, running power up to the box is too short and I need to dangle an extension cord to get the length correct. Same is true for the HDMI 2 feet - Really! Not long enough to run the cable from the box to the TV input - I had to dig one out of my closet. 6. Overall quality is poor 7. Because I could not get the time to stay and the horrible interface - I bought a Roku 2018 - The difference is night and day. So, if you like to be frustrated using a no-name TV box - this is your KING. -- Final resting place - Trash BIN
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