#Ilive for kodi for mac upgrade#

Android mobile OS gets clogged up and slows down, needs frequent clean up and possibly a upgrade to the latest box every 1.5 years. Audio quality is probably on par with the shield, or so i think. The worst video quality among all three. Airplay, Spotify, Tidal etc., apps are available Kodi works the best on the minix box & deserves a special mention. Kodi media player for downloaded content is brilliant, both Movies, TV shows & HQ music. Has apps for almost everything - Netflix, Hot-star, Popcorn time, uTorrents, brilliant Youtube experience.

Runs Android mobile OS, which for me is way better than the Android TV OS, Apple TV OS, and may be unto par with running a full fledged Mac. The best usability among all 3, all you need is a bluetooth mouse. HDMI from device to TV & Optical audio out to my Kef LS50 I was using the MiniX android box from 2014-2016, a mac mini from mid 2016 - now, experimented with the Nvidia Shield in April this year. I should say that, at its time it was the best option around. I was using the WD media box between 2010-2012, great box which can play almost all file formats, works very well if you have downloaded a file from a computer and want to play it, but for other tasks not quite up to the mark. I have a Samsung series 8, 65'' TV hooked up to the media player/HTPC, while the TV is a smart TV and can play media, i just don't us that at all, because of the usability which is a real pain.

Of course the ubiquity of torrents, popcorn time & youtube for music videos & the availability of a 1 Gbps line for cheap helped the cause. When the contract ran out, I decided to do away with it completely and go all in the media player route, subscribing to content via Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar. I live in Singapore and travel quite a bit, i was using a cable connection on contract for a couple of years, after a while i figured out that i was hardly watching TV and the money spent every month on the cable was a literal waste. Hello all, this is my humble attempt at a mini review of sorts of these media players/HTPCs, which I've used extensively.

Ilive for kodi for mac