There are, I suppose it just depends on what you use it for. I have it on devices all over the house. My main device is a small Dell Optiplex 7020 PC and a GeForce GT1030 that I run all my media through and it works and plays everything I throw at it. It has TV/Media/Radio/Movies and emulators all running through it, that I have on my frankenserver thats sat under my stair case. I understand that people want stuff like streams/movies and whatnot free or as cheap as possible but its not for me. I don't see the point in having a 55" UHD TV just to stream low bitrate content.. its just a complete waste to me personally. Therefore I use CS for cable, have DVB-S as a backup and get my movies from either purchased blurays or torrents. Its not dying though, the users that like tvaddons etc will go and it will be back to the same user base that it had a few years ago before all these "fully loaded" Amlogic boxes flooded the market.
Other media players are horrible to use in a HomeTheater, that is why kodi is so great Kinda sucks the xbox port doesn't support SMB but setting up the correct file sharing service on windows server is so much easier than I thought it would be Nice to be able to have a full 4K, bluray and Netflix (dat security bro) box that also plays any media format on my network with extremely low overhead... for $250 Only bummer is there is no audio pass-through yet, I think it was a limitation to how the software is kinda sanboxed on the xbox or something like that... I wish they would just block them in the program :/ also Plex is silly for a HT application.. transcoding, whats the point?... waste of money.....
It's open-source, it'd be easy to create a branch without the block, and now all those people would have an unsupported version of Kodi. It might create more problems than it'd fix. About lack of SMB: NFS ftw. About Plex: Transcoding would be nice if you want to change the format for different devices (tablet vs HTPC) or stream your own video files over the internet when you don't wanna bring them, nor download the whole thing before starting to watch it.
Ahaa.. so does it play 4k content okay? I was thinking about picking up a bare One S if it worked well. Thanks
