My Apple TVs have not been set and forget. Apple's aggressive storage saving makes it so that it resets storage for, and I get logged out of, apps that I don't use frequently. It'll also randomly need a reboot to solve the problem of some videos not playing correctly.
replyIt's definitely not the most troublesome player I've dealt with, but rebooting and logging back into apps randomly can be frustrating.
I think the only problems I've had on mine were network related and I would have had the same problems with an ATV since it can't magically fix DNS or my NAS being off.
replyIf you want a privacy focused solution it's probably the most private. Yeah, admittedly harder to use but I'm not recommending it to my parents.
People haven't been running kodi in ages. You can install jellyfin on an Nvidia shield without any issues
replyWe use it everyday with OSMC Vero devices, across 4 different setups.
replyYes, yes it's niche. Comparing it to Apple TV is a bit strange though when Plex, jellyfin, etc have largely replaced it.
replyYou can use Kodi as a Jellyfin front end. Personally I don't care enough about streaming TV to mobile devices and I only have 1 TV I watch on so the extra complexity of Plex or Jellyfin seems not worth the hassle.
replyAnd I definitely don't want to pay for something like Plex.
At 429 you can get a whole new tv.
replyI have an Apple TV exactly to not deal with any Smart TV feature and to avoid connecting a TV to the internet, mine is the first gen 4K from 2017 and is still chugging along fine.
replyI don't plan on upgrading it to this new version yet so I'll probably get 10+ years of use out of it, great value overall.
Although not a particularly good one. Especially if you want to stream (which I presume Apple TV buyers would) and care about privacy.
replyOr 8 pairs of jeans on sale.
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