Thread: General The rise and rise of "streaming boxes"
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Old 28-01-2016, 19:32   #43
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Re: The rise and rise of "streaming boxes"
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Originally Posted by buckeye View Post
I think for many people who wish to have a wide range of legitimate content a box like the Roku you suggested would be the way to go.
Kodi is unlikely to have services like Netflix supported natively within it in the foreseeable future if ever.
Without wishing to get too technical it cannot handle streams containing DRM so unless the media companies work with the team at Kodi and create binary addons for it (which seems unlikely) many legitimate services will not be on the platform.

As I said previously those legitimateservices that are on it provide in my opinion a much greater visual experience over their browser or app based counterparts but are reliant on someone developing and maintaining the addon in their spare time,
a good example of this is Amazon Prime, this worked very well on Kodi until a couple of months ago when Amazon changed things on their website, the person who wrote this addon seems to have given up on it so now there's no Amazon Prime on Kodi.
Yes, I couldn't be doing with that, I'm afraid. Kodi is clearly designed for the enthusiast!
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