Computational Device Technological Discussion Thread

[ryangreen1]

We've covered Kodi before actually. Just be careful, you are basically illegally streaming - which is different than just illegally downloading.

IMO Plex is way easier if you are okay with providing your own movies (however you choose to do so) - and it now offers it's own built in DVR functionality.

I'm pretty new around here so I must have missed what thread you covered Kodi in. I'm pretty familiar with streaming/torrenting and have a good VPN. I'll look into plex as I've never heard of that. I prefer to torrent things for the most part anyway for the higher quality and that was my main question about Kodi, since I didn't really see any options to do that.

HTPC's are dead. With roku, apple tv, chrome/fire sticks, air play.... and anything you would ever want to watch is available streaming easily, there's no point any more.

HTPC was useful when the only way to get stuff was through torrent/newsgroups, but that ship has sailed. I get that its free, but even broke ass college kids can afford netflix.

I feel like the raspberry pi is basically an open source roku/firestick/chromecast anyway since its only $35. I want some sort of setup like this since for my apartment living room I'm using my 8 year old home audio receiver and flatscreen from my basement before we redid it. Its not a smart tv or smart receiver so I need some sort of way to watch stuff, and I don't really wanna pay for cable since I only would use it to watch live sports anyway. It just seemed like a good option since I can get everything I need for $75-$100 and its open source and somewhat expandable with the usb ports.

Except that's wrong. All the streaming options are shit when it comes to new releases or non-standard programming (like UK F1). We had a week with Netflix streaming while on vacation and I honestly don't understand why people pay for it.

My family has netflix and other than their originals (which are getting better and more abundant) I dislike the selection, or I've watched all of the shows/movies I'm interested in. Since they're moving more towards their original content they've also removed a ton of great stuff on there.