The Official Sup Forums Kinostations Thread - Show off what you play your kino with

How does Sup Forums watch all their kino?

I play it all with my trusty pic related on my Sony 60 inch LED display.

Care to share your kinostations?

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720p tn laptop display

How's the
Pornhub app on roku? I'm waiting on that rumored roku styled Xbone that's coming out.

lol

1600x1200 TFT LG screen and logitech headphones I bought for 15 bucks

>no h265 support

garbage

I wanted a Directv subscription awhile ago but didn't like the hassle of installation and contracts so I got a Roku 3. Finally sprung for the Directv and now my Roku sits there collecting dust.

Whenever I need to play pirated media a use my WDTV Live Plus I bought in 2011.

Mag254 box for IPTV & Videoclub
PS4 for Plex / Netflix / Amazon Video

also have a Now TV box for Sky Box Sets (it was only £12 for 3 months sub) will probably hack it after that and put Plex on it or something.

Heres a question.

Is there one of these media boxes that will play files using that stupid fucking x265 codec that people are using now? We have a fire TV, a smart tv with its own built in media players and got some other little box media player (micca spec something or other G2) and NONE of them will play x265 files. And sadly more and more movies and shows are popping up using that codec.

Why? You can just put a usb stick in a tv and it can play anything from flac to mkv

>Is there one of these media boxes that will play files using that stupid fucking x265 codec that people are using now?

yes

>And sadly more and more movies and shows are popping up using that codec.

Then...don't download those.

i convinced my mom to get a roku 3 only to realize that she literally ONLY watches tv land.

do any of these streaming services show that kinda stuff? maybe crackle?

also, should i just get a plex account so i can watch all the stuff i have on my external?

This
I bought it in 2011 and it plays damn near everything. I've played dozens of filetypes on it over the years. You can find newer models that stream wirelessly.

Then im stuck with standard def shit. More and more 1080p rips are popping up in JUST that format. Also a few oddball things ive DLed were ONLY available in that format, even as standard def.

>You can find newer models that stream wirelessly.
I have an Asus box that does that but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The software is beyond horrible and also, no HEVC support.

>Then im stuck with standard def shit.

No you're not. x264 is still the standard for SD and HD you retard. It's not going away anytime soon.

My projector arrives tomorrow! I am hype! Wonder what I should watch first... maybe Blade Runner. I still have a shit sound system, though.

x265 is gaining momentum if you're planning on buying a media player you'd better make sure it supports it

the easiest route is to build an htpc out of and old computer, even old dual core processors can easily decode x265 through software

>projector
>not buying a huge LED tv with trueblack(tm)
it has literally no advantage unless you inited a dozen friends on a movie night

>More and more 1080p rips are popping up in JUST that format.

No they're not. Everything is still in x264. x265 is just what a few people encode in simply to shrink the existing files even smaller and thus fuck up the quality.

>x265 is gaining momentum if you're planning on buying a media player you'd better make sure it supports it

Not for another 5 years. x265 has barely any hardware support so nobody is going to drop x264 until everybody and their mother has x265 hardware decoding.

>the easiest route is to build an htpc out of and old computer, even old dual core processors can easily decode x265 through software

Or just enjoy your x264-compatible media player now and for a long time because x265 is not even close to replacing x264.

When x265 becomes the standard in 4 or 5 years I can just simply replace the box on my TV for like $25-50 which is a fucking nothing amount of money.

I just use a Raspberry Pi running Rasplex client that gets content from a cheap Netgear NAS with a Plex Server add-on.

Works beautifully and was dirt cheap, relatively speaking.

Chromecast to a cheap 1080p TV with slow refresh. But my eyes are shit anyway, so it doesn't matter.

>x265 has barely any hardware support
doesn't matter

even gpu manufacturers have started including software decoding capabilities in their drivers

i agree it's going to take some time until it becomes standard, but there's no reason not to look to the future if you're building something right now

Patriot Box Office with a couple usb drives in it. Best $100 I ever spent

>More and more 1080p rips are popping up in JUST that format.

You sound like a fucking retard.

Everything is still coming out in x264.

The only x265 encodes are the ones being made by Indians who shrink down existing x264 encodes for the sole purpose of making it easier for other indians to download shit faster.

x264 isn't going to be replaced for years. x265 usage is just a fad right now. x265 isn't even ready for mainstream usage. It's a beta codec right now like x264 was over a decade ago.

>Works beautifully and was dirt cheap, relatively speaking.

And by the time x265 becomes the standard, which is fucking years from now, Android boxes and Raspberry Pis will be fuckloads more powerful and even cheaper than they are now.

>Android boxes
google's nexus player can already handle h265

The other benefit is that the NAS I bought is just powerful enough to transcode x265 at source via the Plex server, so the low powered Pi Plex client simply streams the content like x264 rather than processing it. So from that point of view it's a little bit future-proof too.

>all these anons fighting over bullshit

go to bed grandpa

>i agree it's going to take some time until it becomes standard, but there's no reason not to look to the future if you're building something right now

HTPCs are a waste of money, electricity, and space. You simply enjoy your current player now and then buy a more powerful, cheaper box when you actually need it. My Nexus Player cost me $25 dollars on sale and it plays fucking everything, even x265 via software decoding.

Imagine 4 to 5 years from now, when x265 becomes the scene standard, and Android boxes are everywhere, and faster, cheaper, and more efficient at what they do.

You can literally replace your box like its nothing right now. Imagine how easy it will be to replace in another 4 to 5 years. There's no need to worry about "futureproofing". You just buy another box for chump change.

>HTPCs are a waste of money, electricity, and space
i bought a laptop for $20 for an HTPC, it can handle anything and it's pretty future proof

i don't live in a hovel so space isn't a problem and it doesn't consume huge amounts of electricity

I never understood the point of a HTPC when a cheap media player does 99% of the same shit and is tiny as fuck. My friend spent $700 building his current htpc and I spent $50 for a media player and another $30 or so for storage, and the results are the same: watching pirated shows in 720p because that's what the rips are and watching movies in 1080p.

Putting a laptop under your tv isnt as handy as my Android box which goes under my tv undetected with a remote.

Android boxes are the future, user. Laptops are for computing. Not tv media. This isnt your moms house where you HDMI your laptop to the the tv.

Your friend sounds retarded. I spent $200 to buy storage for my router and I torrent directly to that and my $25 Nexus Player plays it all.

HTPCs are dead. Android is the future.

>My Nexus Player
what model/year ? i would like to avoid hassle that might come with recent models like restrictions, inflated price and shit. basically want to do like you, watch some sho and movies easy peasy and cheaply. will have to buy a new tv, might as well ask what kind works best with that?

Unfortunately Google killed the Nexus player this week, which means even the older stuff will stop getting updated firmware soon.

theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/24/11762276/google-nexus-player-discontinued

>Putting a laptop under your tv isnt as handy as my Android box which goes under my tv undetected with a remote.
it's not under the tv, it isn't even visible and a bluetooth keyboard works wonders

>Laptops are for computing. Not tv media.
we're now pretending media boxes aren't computers? ok user

>This isnt your moms house where you HDMI your laptop to the the tv.
stop projecting, an htpc is a much more flexible proposition assuming you know wtf you're doing yet you seem determined on shilling for android

>a bluetooth keyboard

lol

You must get laid a lot when you whip out that keyboard and your desktop shows up on the tv while you hunt for videos and open them with VLC, user.

sure, like pic related

calling it a keyboard is probably an overstatement

>what is kodi
>ever seeing the desktop ever
>vlc
>more implications and projections

going all out huh?

MXQ android box

I put torrented stuff on my external HD and stream on KODI a lot. Exodus and KissAnime are GOAT

also have some USB SNES controllers. the box runs android, so I have emulators

you must have shit gear m8

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