(2016-11-13, 17:51)BKSinAZ Wrote: In a recent discussion, I was warned not to get an android box. This is because the android kodi developers are not showing much interest any longer for android development or moving on to other projects.
Is this true? Considering a Shield, but now have doubts.
The 2015 & 2016 has being exciting years for new Hardware & technology in general, below are some of the examples.
HDMI 2.0 > HDMI 2.0a > HDMI 2.1 (2017)
HDR10 > Dolby Vision > Dynamic HDR10 & Hydrid log Gama for Broadcast (2017)
UltraHD > UltraHD with Dolby Vision (2017)
TV 8-bits panels > Mid to High-end TVs > 10-bits panels (2016)
Intel is the world’s largest chip maker but their support for HDR, HDCP 2.2 and a wide color gamut (Rec. 2020) has being available only this month with the first Nuc Kaby Lake-S.
I think nvidia is working for Linux HDR support but it will take
some time.
The Android 7.0 already support the latest HDR-10, Dolby Vision & Hybrid log Gama.
On Hardware side its must faster to built System-on-a-Chip (SoC) based on ARM architecture, probably cheaper too.
For example :
Chromecast Ultra (available today) supports HDR10, Dolby Vision, VP9-PQ YouTube HDR.
Sigma TV UHD SOC
STV7804 support all 3 along with 100/120hz frame rate converter... the other 2 SOCs
SMP8980 and SMP8758 supports HDR10, HDR HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) & Dolby Vision.
Oppo UDP-203 (available december 2016) has invested millions of dollars with MediaTek to develop a specialized UHD Blu-ray decoder SoC for their latest Bluray player..
Its obvious that the ARM & Android platform moves a lot faster than X86/Intel, and the Gap between them will might be higher in the future since Intel has announced the
end of their Mobile SOC theres also an article from
anantech about it.
Regarding the OP question, the Android is doing very well and its recommended, its INTEL / AMD / Windows / MAC / Linux / Kodi
that are late to the game...