So I Wanna Buy An Android Box...

[Nazia Noor]

If you can, get a amazon fire tv stick or box from the USA. It has the best processor, and has a great platform. Install kodi yourself on there. It is a lot easier than you think.

 

[cynalan]

Yup. You can even load Kodi onto an android phone and stream wirelessly.

 

[TeeJay]

do a little more research a lot of the companies named were selling pre loaded box's and can not now do that or even offer service or tech help on said box's anyone with some tech skills can download kodi to their laptop and are away to the races but for a lot of folks a pre loaded box is all they can manage and right now it is not so easy to get one.... not impossible but harder than before

The people named can totally sell legally fully loaded boxes
They are enjoined from selling ones to circumvent copy protection

Also ANY other person who sells an illegal box is automatically added to the class action
They have 14 days to appeal but good luck with that (the 2 addons who did appeal were both dismissed with prejudice and ordered to pay $5000 each in court costs. How is that for justice, either accept our ruling, or appeal it and get a hefty fine)

 

[TeeJay]

One of my boxes has 4.4 kitkat and it won't support higher versions. That means you won't be able to install higher versions of Kodi, which means you won't be able to get some sites that provide excellent streaming. If you buy a box it should have minimum lollipop 5.1 (may be good for a year) Marshmellow is out 6.0...Nougat 7.0 should be out too.

The latest release requires Android 4.2 so your 4.4 is fine as of this year

The FUTURE release requires Android 5.0
Release candidate 4 is out so it should come soon but as of today it is not official

 

[Galseigin]

The latest release requires Android 4.2 so your 4.4 is fine as of this year

The FUTURE release requires Android 5.0
Release candidate 4 is out so it should come soon but as of today it is not official

Where you're getting this info, everywhere I look its saying 5 is the minimum requirement. The manufacture says it needs 5 but have provided a fork version 17. These guys are saying even the standard ram is not enough.
The fork version is not working so well, I'm missing items in the menus, I may revert back to 16

http://www.wirelesshack.org/how-to-upgrade-an-android-tv-box-to-kodi-17-krypton.html

 

[TeeJay]

Where you're getting this info, everywhere I look its saying 5 is the minimum requirement.

Everywhere???
Um this might be a bit too obvious and I am missing the trick here but
If I want to look at minimum requirements to run Kodi then I go to Kodi's website.... ???

WTF is "wireshack.org" and why would you use them as your reference link???

Either way the Android 4.2 minimum has been around a LONG time (since Kodi 13 I think?)
So 2 to 3 years of support (after that time I don't care how much you paid for a premium box, it is still a computer and still obsolete)
Your original post was about how a cheap box lasts a year and high end box is future proof (anyone who has ever run an Android phone can tell you how false that was)

 

[Piratos]

Happy with this one I picked up at Walmart across the border. Like the voice search.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mi-Box-Android-TV/54827138

 

[Galseigin]

Everywhere???
Um this might be a bit too obvious and I am missing the trick here but
If I want to look at minimum requirements to run Kodi then I go to Kodi's website.... ???

WTF is "wireshack.org" and why would you use them as your reference link???

Either way the Android 4.2 minimum has been around a LONG time (since Kodi 13 I think?)
So 2 to 3 years of support (after that time I don't care how much you paid for a premium box, it is still a computer and still obsolete)
Your original post was about how a cheap box lasts a year and high end box is future proof (anyone who has ever run an Android phone can tell you how false that was)

According to the Kodi website it says it requires that you have V5.0 to install the latest version of Kodi. You said: "The latest release requires Android 4.2 so your 4.4 is fine as of this year". The latest version is 17.
If you click on the link "how to" it links you to http://kodi.wiki/view/Android and here it is: