[tredman]

My Fire TV gets here tomorrow. To celebrate, I just closed my Roku account:

My understanding is roku has several channels that you can't get other places like the B&W channel and others that you won't find on the firetv. But then fire gets you amazon prime. Of course even Xbmc has lots of stuff missing from it so I guess if you truly wanted everything you'd have several boxes

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xbmc on android (ouya in particular) is pretty good for me.

My interest in this is the apps which form the amazon ecosystem - assuming this plays netflix hd and xbmc can be installed then this is a box which will run xbmc well enough for me and also have a decent netflix and amazon app for streaming - at the moment there is nothing which does this (ouya netflix app quality is not good enough for me)

There is no Netflix HD for any android box. I think only a few tablets have it. Which is why I hate androids broken ecosystem. My Apple TV 2 has had HD Netflix for years. Had Hulu for quite awhile before android. I had Netflix on my iPad long before it was available on droid.
Be nice it one or these boxes could do it all amazon Netflix HD and hulu and Xbmc.

Someone once said, and I agreed with him hundred percent, that you cant think of XBMC as a do it all media center for proprietary and paid apps. Because they keep changing and XBMC is of course an open sourced platform. It is best to not try and comingle the two.

XBMC's attraction lies in the fact you can get all these other addons and free content to give you more options than a lot of these paid apps do.

But at the end of the day its personal preference. I would also love to have native Netflix and Hulu Plus integration but quite honestly you get more options and variety for free in XBMC.

Its changed for me as I got older, i'm not keen on using the 'other' apps now.

I'd love to have a really great xbmc box which can launch other official apps (netflix, iplayer, sky go, amazon etc). Ouya is almost that platform, but lack of netflix HD lets it down.

If amazon box can run xbmc then i'll be getting one for any secondary tv i have (the main tv will always have an htpc).

lack of mpeg-2 could be a killer for live tv though