WDTV Live replacement

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My wdtv live is playing up and I'm not sure which new device to get.
I have loads of movies and tv programs saved onto my d-link 320 dns as a network share but i can't find out if i can access them on the roku 3 or the amazon fire tv. Any help on choosing a device would be appreciated
 
I just swapped a wdtv live for a fire stick installed kodi now i have a fully functional media center very happy with it and it was only £25.
 
I had a wdtv and am now running kodi. I would say take a look at something like the Intel nuc 2820 or a raspberry pi 2. Both are good for kodi. If you care about smooth playback and had the wdtv set to automatically change refresh rate according to the content you were playing then you will like both these devices. The fire TV is good and would be a cheaper option but it does not support auto frame rate changing so you are stuck in either 50hz/60hz.
 
Just a word of warning with the Amazon Fire TV, I had stuttery playback on my 55" 1080p TV when playing bluray films from my Synology NAS, it's the same for all my TV's in the house bigger than 42", anything smaller and it was fine, this was over Ethernet too.
 
Clov!s said:
Just a word of warning with the Amazon Fire TV, I had stuttery playback on my 55" 1080p TV when playing bluray films from my Synology NAS, it's the same for all my TV's in the house bigger than 42", anything smaller and it was fine, this was over Ethernet too.
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50Hz or 60Hz?
 
There's few devices i like the look of to replace the WDLIVE TV. The WDLIVE is ok but its to slow and limited to only few things it can do. Could someone please recommend where to get the PI 2 from please and what i need to be looking for any links would be great please
 
nicknack35 said:
There's few devices i like the look of to replace the WDLIVE TV. The WDLIVE is ok but its to slow and limited to only few things it can do. Could someone please recommend where to get the PI 2 from please and what i need to be looking for any links would be great please
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Purple shirt place stock them now. As do OcUk.
Otherwise check Rasp Pi site for their distributors.
 
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Another vote for the Fire TV, got mine on Thursday and have Kodi 14.2 Helix installed along with Genisis, Icemovies and IStream for streaming films and TV shows, all integrated into my TV and Movie libraries and just finished adding IPTV with EPG into the Live TV tab so I can stream live TV from just about Any channel... it's a great bit of kit and easy enough to setup. So much faster then the WD TV Live was at booting and loading and browsing.
 
UKDTweak said:
Another vote for the Fire TV, got mine on Thursday and have Kodi 14.2 Helix installed along with Genisis, Icemovies and IStream for streaming films and TV shows, all integrated into my TV and Movie libraries and just finished adding IPTV with EPG into the Live TV tab so I can stream live TV from just about Any channel... it's a great bit of kit and easy enough to setup. So much faster then the WD TV Live was at booting and loading and browsing.
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Did you install the addons separately because TVMC comes with everything already installed?
 
rob77 said:
I had a wdtv and am now running kodi. I would say take a look at something like the Intel nuc 2820 or a raspberry pi 2. Both are good for kodi. If you care about smooth playback and had the wdtv set to automatically change refresh rate according to the content you were playing then you will like both these devices. The fire TV is good and would be a cheaper option but it does not support auto frame rate changing so you are stuck in either 50hz/60hz.
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I don't think the 2820 would be sufficiently powerful as a replacement for the WDTV

Perhaps something like this:

NUC 5th Gen - Core i5 5250U
1.6 GHz / 2.7 GHz
Dual-Core
16GB Ram
120GB SSD
Intel HD6000

This should come out to about £420-450 and will run anything you throw out at it as a home HTPC and will also work well as a server to stream for multiple rooms/TVs.

Add:
Windows 7 Pro for the NUC and then load Kodi & Plex
NAS with 2-10TB of HDD storage

You should be set for the next 5 years or more with this setup
 
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actually thinking about it some more, that system ^^^ is probably overkill

You could get an NUC5i3RYK instead and drop it to 2x4GB and save yourself some dosh to put towards a good NAS.
 
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