While streaming-media juggernauts like Netflix and Hulu really have defined the media experience from a user-interface perspective, they are hampered by Hollywood’s unwillingness to license premium content such as recently released feature films.
This also just happens to be where piracy excels. Ultimately, it’s content availability that has proven to be the main stumbling block in creating the holy grail of media experiences. Software Netflix and YouTube … provide solid examples of driving content discovery through sophisticated algorithms that provide recommendations for additional content viewers might enjoy. Figure 1-The little dongle that has replaced the HTPC In this way, the streaming-media industry has met one major need of users. With distribution across devices and a plethora of delivery options, media has become an omnipresent experience. As Figure 1 shows, a little dongle has replaced the HTPC. Plus, tablets and smartphones with large, high-resolution screens have decoupled media from televisions, which are no longer the only means of watching your favorite shows or movies. There has been huge progress in the hardware that delivers the media experience, with the release of AppleTVs, Rokus, Chromecasts, Amazon Firesticks, and even the integration of Over The Top (OTT) capabilities into gaming consoles such as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Those needs tend to boil down to certain categories, which include hardware, software, and content. Over the intervening period, there have been some overarching trends in what users want and what the market demands. Anyways, it's pretty great, and I'm curious to know how many here use it, and if so, how they have it configured.We’ve done a great deal of research work in media, going back to the days before tablets, when people waited for their Netflix DVDs to arrive in the mail and connected Mac Minis to their TVs to create their own Home Theater PCs (HTPCs). Maybe back in the day, XBMC wasn't compatible with PS3? I don't know. I had been using Universal Media Server (and before that, PS3 Media Server) ever since I had a PS3. I'm honestly surprised that it took me so long to realize it was there for me. There's also a function that makes it so Kodi will automatically download subtitles for whatever you are streaming, which is pretty handy. Super sleak interface, flexible, intuitive. XBMC evolved into Kodi, which is available for pretty much every platform available. I remember having to use FlashFXP to access the homebrew servers you could download a lot of homebrew software, including ports such as Doom, and original games such as Super Mario Bros. I used it back in the day for the original Xbox. I had completely forgotten about XBMC's existence. I was looking at alternatives to Universal Media Server to stream video from my laptop to my TV, when I came across Kodi, which is XBMC rebranded.
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