Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

• fin@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hopefully this will enlarge the user base of kodi

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  • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kodi is not suitable for the average user. Some streaming apps like Disney+ require a full chromeOS download just for extracting the DRM part. Roku instead offers for a few bucks a ready-to-go system.

    I always wonder why some products just simply have all these DRM features and others don’t. Is DRM just a monopol for the chosen ones?

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    • richmondez@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s exactly a monopoly for the chosen ones, gate keeping at its worst. Anything that isn’t blessed is going to be a bit more effort to get working, but I wouldn’t say Kodi is unsuitable for the average user on the grounds of the widevine module though, the DRM module extraction is automated when installing a plugin that requires it.

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