Alright, a non techy newbie here, copy and pasting command lines to fix IP address issues on my laptop is confusing enough for me for reference. A week ago, I was just going to snag a firestick with kodi on it and be done, but my soon to be former employer, decided to throw some incentive payouts onto some rip off (drop shipping) store, while browsing products there, I was led here while doing research on products. Unfortunately, no hardware there is of use. So have a tight budget, as it's going to be out of pocket. Read thru the forums here all day yesterday, and am now probably as confused, if not more than before.
Basically am going to be using it to stream movies online thru kodi, a few add ons and maybe put a handful of movies I have onto it. The out of the box Chinese boxes were appealing until finding out there's no support for them, and other reasons. So a nexus player is pretty appealing with the price point, and seems simple enough to get hooked up. Reading thru that thread got me a tad confused if it's not needing tinkering with what I want to do. The rasberry pi2 seems really cool and fun to learn on, but maybe as a secondary project later, as for now I want something I can get set up and use now.
So, keeping it under $100, and somewhat ease of use for now, is the nexus the way to go? I recall another cheaper hardware that ran amlogic 805 (?) mentioned but heads spinning after all the reading I've done, any other suggestions, input , etc? Also, have netflix on my Xbox one/vizio smart(dumb) tv that my gf uses, so Netflix, Hulu, etc aren't of concern
Also, I stumbled upon this while posting this, it doesn't say NOOBS is preloaded with those bad add ons, but thoughts in this package? If it's bad, let me know mods I'll edit post.
http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-...y+pi&psc=1