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Who Shall Control My Media? Part 3 - Media Players

Marc Lewis
Date : June 18, 2016
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Tags : android ,fire-tv ,mythtv ,plex ,roku ,shield ,sony-tv

Media players are a interesting topic. Over the past couple of years, we’ve tried a variety of them. The first one was back in 2007 and was the D-Link MediaLounge DSM-520 that got its media from a UPNP Media server. It was designed to fit into a home entertainment unit, the typical ~19 inches wide and looked a lot like a DVD player or VCR. At the time it was great. There was no metadata, though, just a list of files. Select one and it usually played just fine. It was a good product and nothing else even came close to it.

Who shall control my media? Part 1

Marc Lewis
Date : February 27, 2016
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Tags : chromecast ,emby ,fire-stick ,kindle-fire ,kodi ,mythtv ,plex ,roku ,shield

Over the last couple of years, the entire media landscape has changed. We were quite happy with MythTV, but its pretty limited in its scope, it can only handle TV, Recorded TV, Videos, Music and Pictures that are on its local drives. Now, add in the fact that we’ve had a Roku now for a while, as well as played with the Fire TV stick and set top box, and things get more messy. I’ve been exploring and trying out a bunch of different options, and have started to settle in on one.