Kodi working good, supports a ton more codecs than the fire tv, and roku 3 also I think. I am using Nvidia Shield Tv and I love it. Yes its wordy, yes its lengthy, but every step is explained, and you simply jump the bits you dont need or want. And I have fire sticks in other rooms with kodi sideloaded (they also do netflix, prime, plex and espn3 for soccer) 1 After over 100,000 view of my last Idiots guide, I thought Id write one for Kodi (and Mobdro) as Im seeing the same questions come up time and time again. To sum up, I'm using a combo of chromebox (kodi) and roku 3 in the man cave. It has more codec support and tends to do more direct play which I like, but it has no kodi and the Amazon prime interface is ancient and ugly. If it's snappy with kodi, it might be the best solution for a casual htpc (I don't think anything would replace my chromebox kodi hooked up to a projector with hd surround). I switch to kodi when plex has the wrong or off sync subtitles (kodi's subtitle addons are kicka$$)Įvery once in a while I get tempted to buy the bigger fire tv and give that a try. I use plex more often on the stick as it is much snappier. Entering the movies takes about 15-20 seconds (1500 movies in the library). When I fire up kodi on the stick, it takes about a minute for the widgets to load and weather to update (using either the amber or the mq6 skins). Compared to my chromebox running kodi, everything takes much longer on the stick (this is true for kodi, but netflix and plex work pretty well) I have a couple of fire sticks with kodi on them. It cant be as good as running Openelec on a dedicated mini PC. I have to test out Kodi on the Fire stick. Works great.Įmbarrassed because my content is so much better than what Netflix or Amazon offers. Why's that? I got a Fire TV just so I could stream a few apps and more importantly so I could side-load Kodi. for Amazon Prime (atrocious selection) and Netflix (which is slightly better), but my media collection and the Kodi interface is so much better than either of those services. I am also embarrassed to admit that I have one Amazon Fire TV stick.
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