<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Phill Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">philledwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr"><br>
On 18 Mar 2016 12:11 PM, "Michelle Dupuis" <<a href="mailto:mdupuis@ocg.ca" target="_blank">mdupuis@ocg.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I've been hearing a lot about Kodi recently...and the enormous range of free content. I don't understand where all those channels/content are coming from (perhaps it streams from your cable provider's web service)? Hopefully not a massive pirate network like popcorn now available as a plugin...<br>
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</span><p dir="ltr">Pretty sure a lot of it is not legitimate. </p><span class="">
<p dir="ltr">> Can myth do the same? Kodi is also very slick. I've read a few comparisons from a year ago, but wow I'm wondering if it's time to relegate Myth to the backend only?<br>
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</span><p dir="ltr">There are lots of threads all about whether MythTV frontend is better than Kodi. I think it is when it comes to recording programs, playing them back, skipping ads, skipping forwards and backwards etc. I also think it's easier to use than Kodi which is important if there's someone in the house so just wants something nice and simple. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But it's all personal preference. I think a lot of people like Kodi because IT has a very impressive looking UI. </p>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer - I am a mod on the kodi forums.<br><br></div><div>Kodi is not about getting free content illegally from the internet, any more than mythtv is. See here <a href="https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/">https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/</a> for the official position.<br><br></div><div>However an open and relatively easy python based addon system means many people have built addons that access plainly illegal web sites and offer all the free movies and tv you ever wanted and so on.<br><br></div><div>Coupled with the fact it works on android (and therefore chap chinese "tv boxes" means that there is a ready trade in people adding a freemedia player and a whole lot of illegal addons to a $50 android box and selling them for $150.00.<br><br></div><div>But I use kodi because it looks good, I have a large collection of ripped movies and TV, it works well with Youtube and Vimeo and it has a functional mythtv frontend. Myth is still my backend, but I haven't used mythfrontend for more than testing in a couple of years,<br></div></div></div></div>