Any New TV Streaming Setups

[Billybong]

Anyone running a Fire stick modified or a unique streaming setup??

 

[PROACEX1]

Yup. Tried Kodi. Not sure I like running a broken version of the Fire TV. I don't watch much outside of prime, Netflix, and hulu. Now I do have a ton of torrented movies and the standard codecs for a fire TV are kinda meagre, and transcoding everything again is a pain. For that I liked Kodi. But anymore I just stream from my PC to the Fire TV to avoid the hassle. I dislike paying for HBO go when it is just for one show, game of thrones.

 

[PokeTheDragon]

I have a Synology NAS box, it basically does everything. I think the cheapies one is about 100 with no hard drive or 200 with 3TB

 

[YoshiBishi]

I have a home theater PC with a 980TI in it running Kodi with Emby for our theater.





The other TVs use Android TV boxes. http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_202596.html


My server is running Sonarr, Emby, and SabNZBD.

 

[Billybong]

Are the Android boxes plug and play?


Or do you have to flash it with OS?

 

[CR8Z]

How does an Android Box differ from say, a Chromecast?

 

[BIGWILL]

popcorntime works well for me, got my old gaming pc hooked up to the tv

 

[YoshiBishi]

Are the Android boxes plug and play?


Or do you have to flash it with OS?

It is just an Google TV, I put Kodi on it since that is what I am using as a front end on all of my devices.  Play time, seek point, watched list, etc, all sync up between devices.

How does an Android Box differ from say, a Chromecast?

Chromecast is mainly for streaming I assume, I don't use one.


Android TV is a full blown Android OS in a box.  Anything you can do with an Android device, you can do with an Android box.  I have bluetooth/USB controllers hooked up to mine as well so my kid can play NES games and Android games.  It is a FULL OS, not some stripped down software like Chromecast.