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You also have the option of Amazon FireTV or Fire Stick. http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV You can enjoy netflix, amazon prime, hulu, etc and install Kodi. Although you have to go through an extra step to install it. Amazon removed Kodi from its store officially.

It otherwise plays exactly like an HTPC. Everything I threw at it played fine.

The only downside is that it does not support HD audio passthrough.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV

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Another downside of the FireTV stick and a dealbreaker to me is that Android cannot adapt the refresh rate to the frame rate of the video. Many movies are 24fps, so a multiple of 24Hz is required on the HDMI port for smooth playback. It's one of those things you can't unsee once you're aware of it.

Maybe they've fixed it, but it was like this half a year ago when I had a FireTV stick.

I have not been impressed with mine, slow and buggy. It also is not a fit for the NAS requirement.

What do you mean? Are you referring to playing stuff off of a NAS?

Our two Fire Sticks play of our NAS just fine. We even push video downloads in Kodi back to the NAS no problem. It took about an hour from pulling out of the box, to installing Kodi, configuring my streaming services and pointing it to our shared folders on the NAS.

OK, I didn't know about Kodi.

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