Hardly have free lunch in this world.. lol..

Agree..

For old folks definitely still have to stick with Astro.

I'm using an android tv box, namely CS918. It is quite ok to me (consider cheap comparing to those Minix model) since I didn't plant to spend a lot on these tv box. The specs seems ok and using it been good (smooth and no issues installing apps from google play). It is preinstall with Kodi and have no problem streaming videos in Kodi (sometimes facing longer time to stream as mine only internet speed of 4mb)

My question is, when want to stream videos from chinese apps (e.g VST, Togic and etc), it is always lag very slow. Is this normal?

IC, thanks for the advise. but fyi, it is damn slow streaming youtube now. it happened for few months already. my area will have unifi soon. hope unifi can perform better than streamyx...

Cool, thanks for the advise. will try the pu-ding app u mentioned.

Talk about VPN, are you using it? which vpn you can recommend if i want to access to those vst/ togic/ youku videos?

I've tried the pu-ding app ytd. some shows it stream HD smoothly. but some it is still slow/ can't open at all. i think it is still the same back to the source it pulled from (e.g. youku, iqiyi, letv and etc).

one good thing is it can pre-cache the shows.

Looks like i have to opt for VPN, will try to source for some free trial first.