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It's my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it's soooo old. $200? IDK

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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have one and it is pretty amazing, but it sucks for Kodi from time to time, usually a reboot fixes all the annoyances... But I don't like that workaround.

My unit was downgraded to 8.2.3 and debloated for the sake of a better performance.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's probably worth saying that I think the issues with Kodi are down to Kodi itself and not the shield. That is to say you'll have similar issues on a fire stick or Chromecast 4k or whatever.

I have up on Kodi after having used it successfully for years on a raspberry pi. I switched to Emby and it has been much more stable.

[–] TooJ20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on the flip side, i also dowgraded to 8.2.3 and debloated. i have zero issues with Kodi using PKC with direct play over a wired connection.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Wait a few weeks without reboot and check again, although usually it does pretty well with PKC, especially if you have light local media.