Amazon Prime and the Fire Tablet. My review.

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    Night Prowler Medium Load Member

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    I use a program called Graboid on my laptop. Its 20 bucks a month, unlimited downloads. it has most tv shows. tons of movies. A lot of movies not long after they come out are on the site. I just down loaded black mass today. I like it a lot as I don't have cable. I also use Netflix. You can try Graboid free and download a couple movies an try it. Also commercial free ! Watch anytime.
     
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    Awesome! I had never heard of it, thanks.
     
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    Graboid has a lot to offer, It even has old movies an tv shows. All content is downloaded by users ( not sure how that works ) But graboid doesn't get any content themselves. But it is virus free. Its not perfect but its really good. I find it much safer and better than torrents. And I can keep up to date with the WALKING DEAD !!!!! Oh an most tv shows are downloaded the next morning, So its almost realtime.
     
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    graboid works in the same manner as torrents.

    Since graboid doesn't get the content themselves like you say. SOMEBODY has to have and share. Just like torrents. That means viruses also. Unless the software itself has a detection and scrubber system in place. For $20 a month, They better have something in play. Cuz torrents are free.

    i'll probably be checking it out tonight, since we usually spend the nights in california now. waiting for a load back.
     
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    Don't those tablets have memory card slots to increase storage. You could probably double your storage space pretty cheaply. Could someone go with a less expensive tablet and a card or does it only work on native memory.
     
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    it's the operating system. only capable of going so big. 32 gigs.

    the latest android os's can now read up to 64 gigs. and i think the most recent can do up to 128 gigs.
     
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    You can't increase the data on the Fire that I know off but the 25 title limit is by Amazon not memory.
     
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    Agreed... Limit is imposed by the App not the tablet.
     
    MidWest_MacDaddy, Oct 15, 2015
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    Anyone say "Napster"... lol

    Sounds like a great business model, if not completely legal, get others to do your uploading and then charge others for the downloading... Oh yes, completely legal, and very safe too... ;-)
     
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    yea Napster, I thought the same thing LOL. But it works for now. So until it gets shut down, i'll continue to use it. Still cheaper than cable. And its easy to use.
     
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