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i just bought a 55" SUHD 4K Curved Smart TV JS9000 Series 9 ( UN55JS9000F )
I was wondering if i can install kodi right onto it. it has a 8 core processor.
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To be precise, there's no official support, but assuming this one runs tizen, I think there's an unofficial port around.
Just Google for it.
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A Raspberry PI is so cheap it is not worth the headache of trying to get it to work on the TV. Just get a Pi. Or Amazon Fire. Or similar.
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Especially when a Pi is only 1% of the price of the screen...
</irrational gadget envy>
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Hi all,
You are all right in regards to the cost of the Pi or the cost of the screen, but let's turn the discussion the other way:
-> How many Smart TVs are available and used to play content?A: millions
-> How many PIs are available and used and people are used to is? thousands? less than a million anyway...
Kodi launched on Android and IOS - that's awesome and increased the awareness of the project and the usage of the player, but why not expand to other platforms? Documentation is available and I am sure there are lots of developers who would want to give it a go and a lot of consumers that would find Kodi very interesting and usefull on their *smart* device.
ps: congrats Blair
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Quote:...why not expand to other platforms? Documentation is available and I am sure there are lots of developers who would want to give it a go and a lot of consumers that would find Kodi very interesting and usefull on their *smart* device.
There is no "why not". If other developers make the port then great, but that hasn't happened. I think you greatly over estimate the number of available developers that have the ability and interest in porting Kodi. Especially considering how few developers we have right now for huge platforms like Windows, Android, etc.
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2015-10-02, 05:24
(This post was last modified: 2015-10-02, 05:27 by Ned Scott.)
(2015-10-02, 03:42)theblacktruth Wrote: It looks like Samsung SmartTV can install kodi directly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrqJ89M7hxg
That's a fake video. You can't install XBian, which is specifically for the Raspberry Pi hardware, as an "application" onto any Samsung TV. It just doesn't work like that. Maybe the guy made it as a joke for his friends, but none of that is real.
EDIT: Yep, it's definitely a joke video, as are all of his youtube videos. I have to admit, that's pretty funny.