Kodi boxes

Their main purpose, despite the developers assertions otherwise is to steal movies and TV shows. All that free stuff they advertise? It's likely stolen.

Efforts have been made to cut off access to the stolen content. The boxes are losing functionality by the month.

That's not to say they're worthless. If you have a large existing media library (DVD backups for example) Kodi is an excellent way to access that.

GordonThree wrote:
Their main purpose, despite the developers assertions otherwise is to steal movies and TV shows. All that free stuff they advertise? It's likely stolen.

Efforts have been made to cut off access to the stolen content. The boxes are losing functionality by the month.

That's not to say they're worthless. If you have a large existing media library (DVD backups for example) Kodi is an excellent way to access that.

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They are a great deal for about $50 to have for streaming your existing media. If you want it for the other purpose it is losing steam by the day and really not worth the hassle of trying to stay on top of the updates to continue.

Gdlow .... Take comments here so far with a grain of salt..

Plenty to read about Kodi - hit your favorite search for kodi piracy or kodi dmca

Of course as with anything, there's ways around some of the loss of functionality, other plug-ins rely on services that just don't exist anymore. Hollywood is leaning H A R D on foreign countries that informally hid these services but now they can't afford to look the other way.

I'm not a supporter of the Hollywood Industrial Complex or it's control over world governments... I think it's awful what they get away with, and I try to support them as little as possible. But I drew a line through pirating content a long time ago after leaving college. Getting involved in any sort of legal argument with the MPAA or goonies would be bad for my government job.

If you want free/cheap and legal content watch that's easy, get a used Roku and add the new Roku Channel - plenty of movies and tv shows, plus there's PBS, CNBC, YouTube all on there and Roku is easier to use for streaming Internet content.

No need for a box. Put kodi on your laptop and it works great.
https://kodi.tv/download
Kodi in itself is legal. It's the add-on's that change that.
If you choose to use the unofficial add-on's a VPN is recommended.

kodi works good on a laptop if you have hdmi out on it plug it into your tv and your set there is some configuration to get it to work. i have apple tv and roku the roku works excellent you select just the apps you want on it. but the big question is always where are you getting your internet connection as each movie can be about 3 gigs of data to stream and you need a good strength fairly fast uninterrupted connection to prevent dropouts.

Personally I feel that Kodi is too much work. Even if the stream is legal you are still responsible to construct your own programming. My experience was,once a program ended you need to manually start the next one. It might be different now but I prefer to avoid the legal implications.
There are a few affordable paid options now (sling, Hulu, Netflix) that are very reliable. I tried kodi a few years ago but quickly moved to Sling which can be used on the android box.

I have 2 amazon fire devices both with Kodi loaded. We tend to watch with it less than expected and mostly the tv shows that we would watch at home on cable anyway. We have tried to log directly into the tv apps from the networks but for some reason they never take my login. (not sure why, because I use the same login to get to my bill) Either way, we do use it for watching some tv. We tend to just go with Amazon to watch movies as the stream provider and speeds play a big role in how well Kodi will work and Amazon seems to have plenty of processing power behind their distribution of content.

I tried a Kodi box, cost about $175 as I recall. They claimed that the content was paid for from some of the proceeds of the box. The truth about it I'm not sure. I returned it due to technical problems for a full refund. I stick to Netflix, Sling and Amazon which works great. I get the big three stations over the air in High Def couldn't be happier. I'm more on the computer than the TV anyway.

sherlock62 wrote:
Gdlow .... Take comments here so far with a grain of salt..

O I have been on these boards for long enough I comp-letely understand that...:W