Turn your Shield Android TV into a full-blown media hub with Kodi
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It's also an amazing media device that outperforms everything else on the market and looks incredible on the latest 4K televisions, and it sounds just as good thanks to its Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound. It's great for enjoying Netflix in ultra high-definition, but for the ultimate home entertainment options you really need to head for the Google Play store and download Kodi.
You might not know the name, but Kodi's been around for years, getting better and better all the time. It started life on the original Xbox, as a homebrew media player called XBMC (Xbox Media Center), and over the years it's been improved and expanded and ported to almost every conceivable platform.
Basically it's a high-end digital media player and entertainment hub, designed to look fantastic on a big screen. It's an all-in-one solution for videos, music, photos and podcasts, whether you're getting them from your Shield's internal storage, an external drive, your local network or the Internet, and it's easy to use with a big and bold 10-foot user interface designed to be easy to navigate with a remote control.
Whatever format your video content is in, Kodi takes full advantage of the Shield's video hardware acceleration abilities to display it at its very best, and recent releases have been specifically optimized for Shield Android TV, offering 4K Ultra HD support, refresh rate switching, and hardware-accelerated HEVC playback support.
It's open-source and completely free, and best of all you can expand its capabilities considerably with a large library of add-ons. If you're not keen on Kodi's you can completely change its appearance by installing new skins and even screensavers, and get it looking exactly how you like it.
The best bit of Kodi's add-on repository is the vast library of audio and video packages that you can download and install—also for free. Developed both by the Kodi team and third-party users, these add-ons enable you to vastly expand your viewing and listening options, giving you access to assorted online video and audio services.
If you look in the official repository you'll find add-ons for well-known services such as YouTube, BBC iPlayer and MixCloud, as well as the likes of TED and Twitch plus a whole host of lesser-known services that just might tickle your fancy, such as online anime channel Crunchyroll, or Classic Cinema, which features a roster of great movies.
Look beyond the official Kodi repository and you can find many more options of varying quality, not to mention legality. So ensure you are downloading officially recommended Kodi add-ons when browsing what's out there.
The latest Kodi version 16.1 (codenamed "Jarvis") is available now on the Google Play store. If you want to make the most of your Shield Android TV's media options then don't waste any time and download Kodi.
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