(2015-05-19, 20:23)Junos Wrote: By adding to the Wiki you're encouraging people to use this platform.
No. That kind of bullshit is "why we can't have nice things", and I refuse to let that kind of ignorance dictate what can or cannot be placed on the wiki. The wiki manual is a collection of information that the community provides, with the intent on helping other people by sharing information. It is not a commercial endorsement or a business. It is not there to hold your hand or spoonfeed you information that you didn't research yourself. We try to do what is reasonable on our end, and the wiki manual is full of warnings about android hardware, both on the general platform level and for specific devices, but there will always be a page or a section that isn't specifically labeled. If you only look there and no where else, then yeah, you'll miss the warnings. You have only yourself to blame for that.
People get what they pay for. For $80-100 USD, the Fire TV really is one of the best options you can get. Even if there is no formal endorsement, and even if there was no wiki page made by the community, you would still have Google results showing you tons of people who are happily using Kodi on the Fire TV. I personally have one Fire TV box and 4-5 Fire TV sticks.
Just as you are now happy with your Rockchip-based box, there are people out there who will read your review, assume it supports all possible Kodi features. Only later do they find out that Netflix is a PITA to use on it, the H.265 support isn't always "complete", that the deinterlacing on
any Android box is only the most basic options, or discover the occasional audio sync issues that pop up with the right combination of hardware.
For your use case, you didn't see any of those issues or they weren't noticeable. For other people's use cases, the Fire TV box is an excellent device. The Kodi wiki manual's role in all of this is to provide a space for users to share such information, in the hopes that it helps other people. That doesn't mean the burden is on the wiki. The burden is on the person researching the product they wish to buy.