Thanks for dropping by. The purpose of this thread was initially conceive by others, to give SHORT concise one or two line answers to people with little to zero knowledge on IPTV and thus android boxes.

I took it upon myself to do it, but as you can see, it is still "WORK in PROGRESS" after 3 months for reasons explain below

The framework of this thread is then limited to HIGHLY recommended ENTRY Level Boxes with affordable prices. I don't wish to steal any of the thunder or work down by dwRK in the other thread, and even made reference to it for those who wish for Expert advise to put their 'out of topic' query there.

There are lots of manners of  introduction on this TOPIC, and I wish to bring this thread to answer some of the more common questions or ODD questions posed by Local Malaysians to Sellers of Android Boxes or IPTV sellers, and not necessarily explain A to Z of everything and anything about Android Boxes akin to being a encyclopedia.

Why still "Work in Progress"
- primarily due to my inability to give good 1 line answers to most of the common questions.
- other engagements
- need more fact finding as I am not a seller, thus I may not have much knowledge of the Odd questions customers pose.

Hope the above addresses your concern, and lastly thank you for your dedication in attending to the questions pertaining Android boxes in the other thread for the last few years. Your comments were ever present in there.

android boxes have been around for almost a decade now.
some of us started way back then, some are totally new to it.
newbies typically do not read much and hence do not even know what questions to ask.

with all that has happened, and knowing the questions most often asked, i came to the conclusion it is rather futile to attempt to deal with all questions of all boxes at all times in a single thread.
much better to deal with it by model or at least by brand.

primarily, i only comment on brands and models i know - himedia and tanix - becos i have several of each brand.
secondarily, i comment on apps that i use a lot, incl astrogo, kodi.
the rest... i don't really comment becos i do not know enough of them, never used them.