I was thinking on how many different things had to be plugged in to be a 'good' living room appliance/device, and wondering how does everyone else solves the same problem..
What I would like
media
- good local media access from NAS with high wife acceptance factor (ideally voice search capability)
- Netflix for remote media
- optional, BD playback
- optional, basic DVR integration with Silicondust HD Homerun
Gaming
- game streaming from main gaming PC
- optional (console gaming). after trying Steam, console gaming is way to expensive and what I play (RPGs and strategy) either non-moddable (rpg) or impossible (strategy) on consoles
willing to take at most two devices, would prefer one if modern consoles can meet requirements above. what are my choices?? willing to pay say $500 for single device or few hundreds if that has to be multiple devices.
also, why are all of these ecosystems so disjoint to the point of being unusable??
tried and run amazon fire - good remote media but stupid decision to give me no local media access so Kodi would have to be sideloaded. limited integration, no voice search capabilities for anything local.
tried and run kodi boxes (openelec primarily), ok for local media playback, no Netflix solution, no voice search, low wife acceptance factor
heard about steamlink but my understanding is that it is steam game streaming only, no local media access, Kodi, or anything else
heard about NVidia shield and believe it can do its own steaming, know that it supports Kodi as an app , do not know if it gives voice search and/or run Netflix. I think this is the closest to what I want
do not know enough yet on current gen consoles, hoping to evaluate once they shrink the tech in the next refresh. expect BD playback from both consoles, not sure on the rest.
how good (if exist) are voice search capabilities for PS4 and XBOne? what about local media integration? Anything worth recommending here or any places that looked at similar requirements
Thank you for reading, hoping for a conversation with people desiring to hit similar goals and/or option discussion
What I would like
media
- good local media access from NAS with high wife acceptance factor (ideally voice search capability)
- Netflix for remote media
- optional, BD playback
- optional, basic DVR integration with Silicondust HD Homerun
Gaming
- game streaming from main gaming PC
- optional (console gaming). after trying Steam, console gaming is way to expensive and what I play (RPGs and strategy) either non-moddable (rpg) or impossible (strategy) on consoles
willing to take at most two devices, would prefer one if modern consoles can meet requirements above. what are my choices?? willing to pay say $500 for single device or few hundreds if that has to be multiple devices.
also, why are all of these ecosystems so disjoint to the point of being unusable??
tried and run amazon fire - good remote media but stupid decision to give me no local media access so Kodi would have to be sideloaded. limited integration, no voice search capabilities for anything local.
tried and run kodi boxes (openelec primarily), ok for local media playback, no Netflix solution, no voice search, low wife acceptance factor
heard about steamlink but my understanding is that it is steam game streaming only, no local media access, Kodi, or anything else
heard about NVidia shield and believe it can do its own steaming, know that it supports Kodi as an app , do not know if it gives voice search and/or run Netflix. I think this is the closest to what I want
do not know enough yet on current gen consoles, hoping to evaluate once they shrink the tech in the next refresh. expect BD playback from both consoles, not sure on the rest.
how good (if exist) are voice search capabilities for PS4 and XBOne? what about local media integration? Anything worth recommending here or any places that looked at similar requirements
Thank you for reading, hoping for a conversation with people desiring to hit similar goals and/or option discussion