Fetch TV Mini
AN OVERPRICED STREAMER.
THIS ISN’T A PVR as such, as it doesn’t include any form of storage. It’s designed as a supplementary device to the Fetch TV Mighty. While the Mighty lives in the family room, doing all of the recording, the Mini sits in your bedroom, allowing you to stream recordings from your Mighty over your home network.
It does have a single TV tuner, so you can watch live TV if you so desire, but it’s heavily reliant upon the built-in Wi-Fi to deliver to the maximum of its capabilities. By doing so, it opens up all of the IPTV channels available on the Fetch Mighty, and you can also buy the same channel packages and programs. It’s got the same winning interface and remote of the Mighty, making it ridiculously easy to use. However, it also struggles with certain downloaded movie formats — when we tried to watch Thor Ragnarok off our NAS, we were left without any sound, and had to revert back to the good old Xbox One to watch it.
Like all streamers, it’s also highly dependent on the quality of your Wi-Fi. While there is an Ethernet port, most users will rely upon Wi-Fi, and streaming HD movies can be hit or miss. Surprisingly, Google’s Chromecast seems to be one of the only devices we’ve tested that does this without issue.
For the price, we think you’re better off with something like the Chromecast, although you’ll miss out on the seamless connectivity between the Mighty and the Mini, not to mention the ability to buy extra channel packages and live TV.