Quote:You nailed it. Without netflix and amazon and giddyup still down and crackle broken and navi overloaded there is little reason to continue using xbmc unfortunately.
Sorry, have to disagree with you there: XBMC, from the onset, was an interface to your already existing media, be it tv shows, movies, music or photos.
in that respect, it works very well and has been the cornerstone of every iteration of htpc(s) I've set up in my home. over the years I've put together a rather extensive collection of movies and tv shows and the features of XBMC have allowed me to organize them in a that is useful to me and my family.
newer iterations of XBMC, particularly of late, have allowed for newer media to be included into this framework, namely streaming files and live tv/pvr. for myself, this has been a boon, since as my children grow up they need more content that's relevant to them. Netflix stills works, but you have to shell out for playon or tool around with plex server. Hulu still does as well. For the most part, those 2 services fill the gap that Amazon has left quite nicely if not even more so. what stings about Amazon is that we had to shell out a year's subscription up front. Netflix and Hulu are a month to month basis and hence much "easier" to drop should they stray.
this Amazon debacle isn't an XBMC problem, not as it was initially conceived nor in its current iteration: bluecop's plugins are NOT built into the core of the program. and as such, if and when Hulu and Netflix change the way they deliver their content, i'll either figure out a way to work around it for the sake of my kids or look for different providers altogether.
XBMC however will always be the cornerstone.