[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slackbladder:
Hi Leedsgreen,

Well the update went through today once I released the ftv from the blocks on opendns and my router.... Good thing, is that there is no banners in sight,..... but is this due to the mrs taking out a temp prime membership? (But thinking about it, the banner would surely be globally pushed).

Although I have put the blocks back in place for the time being, so maybe that's why I'm not seeing any banners at the moment... who knows?

I've been searching for a decent HDMI Switcher also.... one of them things that after two hours of head banging one tends to give up looking.. lol. I did come across one being talked about over at AVforums, https://www.avforums.com/threads/best-hdmi-switch-splitter.1921678/ the unit being talked about looked quite good,.. all hdmi ports facing one way and not all around a square box, and it runs from AC as well,... (seems most problems occur due to flimsy 5v switching line on shoddy hdmi cables). This was the unit, http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...ue&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00&tag=av0c-21 looks perfect, only to find out, (well with my luck it was bound to be no longer available).

It's now going to be a toss up between kodi and spmc,... I been reading, and reading, and then some more reading... and finally came to the conclusion, what one person says is an incredible experience I read about 10 that says, (It Stutters) (It resets itself), (I get loud screeching from 1080 content), (loads about buffering issues)...

I think the problem is, that everyone has there box set the way they want it,... and when things go wrong the questions start to get thrown about.

For instance there's one person I know that would sit through a DVD got from the local chip shop under the counter, which is a blatant cam,... One can hardly see what's happening on the screen but he's quite happy to watch it.... personally I think the money would have been better spent on a pint and a go on the fruity machine.

I didn't even bother about trying kodi/helix on that old firmware, .... It's my understanding that I could have sideloaded and then still updated the FW and it would not have caused any problems, but why make things worse.

There was one serious problem I had with that old firmware.... and that was when the screensaver kicked in,.... one or two of the pictures were okay, but then suddenly an image would appear and the shimmer from it was unreal,.... but it only happened on a few of the images and not all. I even tried going back and forth to see if it was me but it was deffo the images causing the shimmering (best word I could think of).

But the update seems to have cured that to a certain degree.

I did go through a set number of tests first to see if it was me, made sure i was on 1080p at 50hz... screen size reduced by 2% (if I remember). Iplayer did that check for me when i first ran it.

I almost thought I was looking at a live image at first, there was so much shimmer. It was either the whole screen or just certain areas,.... I've never experienced that before with anything I've watched.

As a sidenote here's one of the images, (not one that shimmered though)... http://www.cokoart.com/Shop-Art/?&search=sara winter&st=1 It's called "rainforest waterfalls"... oh dear amazon, did you pay her royalties for using her images. lol hhhmmmm It starts "from" $22 x lets say (how many boxes, is that on now).

need to thank nyders for his help in pulling them off his box. And a few come from a company called Travel Pix Ltd.

I'll let you know how I get on with my setup and mycloud once up and running.

Oh,.. out of curiosity, when I get a power cut and my router goes down, I loose over 50% of my router attached usb hard drive content due to corruption, and it's ac powered, not that it makes much difference.

Have you had any similar problems with lan attached NAS during total power loss?

Would be very handy to know, losing 150gb of content is one thing, losing a couple of TB is another... lol

Thanks for the reply Leedsgreen...

slackbladder..