[Bluewave]

"questions that would only come up when using XBMC with the Fire TV."

OK...For some silly reason, I thought that that was EXACTLY what I would be doing.

In any case, you at least gave me some information that was missing (or, at least, inscrutably buried) in the manual pages that I was reading. So, no matter what device -- iOS, Android (including Fire TV), whatever -- as long as there is a WiFi or wired connection between the device running XBMC -- in this case, the Fire TV -- and the device that has the media -- in this case, a PC in the next room -- and the device that stores the media has them set up as shares, then you should be good to go.

My block was in understanding exactly how the Fire TV would access the PC, and be able to see and stream its files. I wasn't even sure that it could do that in the first place. Sounds like it would just be a WiFi connection between the two, and that the XBMC software on the FireTV would be configured to access specific shares set up on the PC.

If that's correct, then that was basically all I was asking. Then I can dig into more of the details once I get all of the equipment.