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Flashy movie posters you can idly browse through while you are curling up against your significant other. There's a real emotional difference in clicking on a
by NortySpock 7y ago
Flashy movie posters you can idly browse through while you are curling up against your significant other.
There's a real emotional difference in clicking on a movie poster rather than squinting at text in a list of folder contents.
Additionally the media server will generally pull lists of actors, directors, and other related works, as well as holding your place in the episode or series if you are working your way through a TV series on the weekend. "What episode where we on?" becomes a rhetorical question rather than a debate.
- FreeKill 7y agoAlso, other quality of life features such as searching your library, ordering your list by different criteria such as directors, critic reviews, release date, combining movies/tv shows into organized collections etc.
- petepete 7y agoPlus your library marking what you've seen and bringing what's next to the fore. Kodi does this very well
- majora2007 7y agoPlus gives you the optional ability to watch your media from anywhere, even outside your network.
- o-__-o 7y agoI use Archos video player on a firetv and connect to my miniDLNA instance. Archos gives you all of the movie posters, imdb descriptions, actor info etc etc. my dvr recordings are also served from minidlna which allows archos to pop up “new episodes!” on recently added series episodes What is the benefit of this being a server side function?
- anthonylavado 7y agoRemote access and a single library of truth across multiple clients - keeping track of what’s been watched and when. There’s other bits, but that’s the most important.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoAm I the only one in this thread doesn't regularly fall asleep or get distracted watching a show/movie? Multiple times a week in having to fight to find which episode or where in the movie I was. This is painful with the atrociously slow uis of every app I use.
- o-__-o 7y agoArchos flys and this is in the face of Amazon's Fire OS which is not the fastest UI at all.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago> There's a real emotional difference in clicking on a movie poster rather than squinting at text in a list of folder contents. Sounds like the opposite of a feature. Never judge a book...