Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device?

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 6, 2018 @05:24PM from the discerning-couch-potatoes dept.

The network card died on Thelasko's smart TV -- and rather than spend $65 on a new one, they're considering buying a nice, simple streaming box. I am running a Rygel server on my PC, but rarely use it... I primarily only watch Amazon Prime, Netflix, and YouTube for streaming, and am wondering what Slashdot users have found to be the best option. I'm considering Roku or Chromecast because they are well known and supported. However, I have heard a lot of news about Kodi devices being more hackable.
AppleTV? Amazon Fire TV? The Emtec GEM Box? Building your own from a Raspberry Pi? Leave your own thoughts and suggestions in the comments.

What's the best media streaming device?

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Re:Pi 3 you fuckers by gravewax · 2018-01-06 19:20 · Score: 4, Insightful

I call myself a nerd, but my wife does not and when she wants to watch something she doesn't want to be debugging why Netflix won't run or why she can't playback her recorded show properly, this inevitably takes me away from doing other nerdy stuff (games, programming, fiddling with my raspberry Pi). This is why I no longer use kodi, I don't want to spend my time maintaining shit that has been implemented far better on cheap devices like Roku, my time and sanity are worth too much for that.