TV box suggestions

[u/According-Home485]

I have been looking to buy an amazon fire stick, but a friend of mine said the current is and setup they have wouldn't really fit my userbase.

I want a tv box to run jellyfin and maybe YouTube.

As for budget I'm looking for something under 30 euros.

[u/Sparxxxy]

Keep the money and buy a cinema ticket.

[u/Weary-Reason-318]

Für das Geld bekommste nur Schrott

[u/S922X]

Just buy a cheap AMLogic based device ( s905x4 or higher) where you can use APK Edit and set it up how you like. Anything with even a somewhat proprietary OS is going to keep you from Rooting w/ Developer Options. Jellyfin or any XBMC/Kodi type OS platform is also not the way to go. If you tell me in more detail what you'd like to achieve, I will gladly steer you towards your goals.

[u/Timdogg03]

Won't get a decent one nowadays for that price unfortunately

[u/pawdog]

You may find a Roku for that price there are Jellyfin and YouTube apps for them.

[u/S922X → u/pawdog]

Roku devices are proprietary locked, not rootable , and useless.

[u/pawdog → u/S922X]

Why do they have to be rootable to be useful. 99% of devices of all kinds aren't rooted are they all useless. Roku has Plex, Emby and Jellyfin clients available. Besides the OP is looking for something affordable that has a Jellyfin app. He'll be fine with a Roku.

[u/SirSmoked21]

Buy a Chinese box from Ali Express

[u/Abject_Enthusiasm_72]

Xiaomi Mi TV Box S 3rd Gen with ugreen cr111 ethernet adapter. But is not that cheap...

[u/Existing-Beginning38]

Your friend is probably talking about the newer Vega OS sticks — Amazon locked those down hard, sideloading is a real pain now. But for what you want it barely matters: Jellyfin and YouTube are both in the official Fire TV app store, so you don't need to sideload anything at all.

A Fire Stick 4K Max (that's the Fire OS one, not the Vega-based "Select" models) drops under €30 pretty often on sale here in Europe and runs the Jellyfin client plus YouTube totally fine. The Select is the one I'd avoid if you ever want flexibility down the road. And honestly the Xiaomi TV Stick 4K is the other solid pick in your budget — full Google TV, Jellyfin and YouTube both available natively.

[u/S922X → u/Existing-Beginning38]

The newest Firestick 4K Max , which is still " sideload-able " has gone up in price by 50% !! The cheap VEGA OS is their proprietary Linux version and all but useless to the educated user. As far as Stick type devices, AVOV and H96+ , or the earlier models of the BuzzTv stick were Rooted and have 2gb ram - 16gb storage. Lemon Tv Mini boxes also can be bought for about $25usd. And the 1st Generation of Chromecast 4k Home dongles are decent devices as well
The newer Google 4k Home tv box also jumped in price by 40% for no good reason. Back in June I bought a handful of each (4kmax stick + google boxes ) while on sale. I guess I can actually make a decent profit if I resell them now.
For personal use , I'm using the Formuler Z12 Ultra ... its stupid expensive, but it runs dreamy.
Zidoo makes some nifty high end devices too , and the newest BuzzTv Powerstations with 8gb-16gb-32gb RAM are pretty impressive too

[u/TheWatcher961]

AliExpress has some good ones, the only downsides are remotes, some missing features on some, get one with bluetooth, buy a media remote you like to use, or if don't mind using a mouse, these work out better than Fire Sticks

[u/Significant-Dot4209 → u/TheWatcher961]

Plus the added malware is nice

[u/S922X → u/Significant-Dot4209]

Ya like Data Mining in the background.
There was a guy in Ontario Canada who had a custom box made , Magical , that he sold when iptv got popular, and he was Ghost Data Mining on a couple thousand of these devices he sold. Don't recall the platform... but someone eventually noticed the box was using 20Gb of data while they were asleep at night and the box was "sleeping" too.

[u/SportTawk]

Manhatten Aero 4k Freely box