Amazing what an open stick can do!



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Good video, just loaded up those apps.

If the local TV app works as well as he says it will be our next step to de-cableising the house

PBS. Sign up for a (free) account with your local PBS station. Download the app. Sign in. Watch all the free, commercial-free content.


Also understand that there are quite a few 3rd party apps available out there for "jailbroken" Fire sticks that allow you to watch pirated content. This includes several of the apps that this guy is touting, like CinemaFree and Crackstreams. I mean, it should be pretty obvious... The reason why you're able to watch stuff like in-theater movies and paid subscription shows and sports programs for "free" instead of paying for them like everyone else is because they are pirated.

Based on prior threads on similar topics, I know some folks here don't see anything wrong with that. And yes, copyright laws were written before streaming was a thing so there's some technical legal wiggle room there, plus law enforcement and copyright holders mainly go after the ones distributing it rather than the ones viewing it.

But when it comes down to it, for me personally, I'm a grown-ass adult with a paying job and I can afford to pay a few bucks for my streaming content rather than stealing it. Even if a good lawyer might be able to argue that it's technically not illegal due to some loophole in outdated copyright laws as written, it's not right. The content creators, and all the thousands of associated people who work on it throughout its production and distribution, deserve to be compensated for their work.

(I'll get off my soapbox now.)

We get plenty of movies with Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, so while that option exists, it's like anything else, up to the end user to decide if it's the right thing to do or not.....

I"m more interested in making sure the channels we watch that are not prime time channels we can get through streaming, if so, adios pay per month

Dunno, these days about the only firestick app I use is the Tinycam-pro IP camera viewer to view my home's security cameras. I guess I've watched about everything I've wanted to watch