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> I ended up buying a $75 android TV box which is way faster than a TV and has Kodi w/ torrent search + streaming

What product is this? It sounds freaking amazing!

Amazon is full of these boxes, you can use any of them that support new android versions + 4k/8k.

The software I use for torrent streaming is a Kodi add-on called "Elementum". For a similar app that crawls all of the steaming websites see "The Crew".

https://howtomediacenter.com/en/install-elementum-kodi/

https://kodi.expert/best-kodi-addons/the-crew/

It really changed the way I download movies. No need to keep a NAS or collections when you can just stream anything on demand (unless you use private trackers w/ bandwidth caps where streaming doesn't make sense).

I have to say that if you’re planning on running Kodi, it can really be a dog on underpowered devices. I like the recommendations that the guy who runs mediaclients.wiki has on the homepage. The Apple TV is probably the fastest set-top box you can get to run Kodi but you have to sign it yourself or pay a signing service. In second place comes the newest fire tv cube which runs Kodi even better than (my third place) Shield TV.

Also, if you want to have your mind blown look into plex media server “shares”. I love Kodi but it’s just no contest vs the polished commercial app, and it even does the recommending thing you miss from iptv land

oh wow I just checked out the Plex shares thing. That’s really cool. Man we’re living in the golden era of piracy. People who are used to old torrenting on PCs or just Netflix are really missing out.

I got what I thought was a pretty powerful Android box but it is kinda slow when loading in-line EPG TV guides for the channels. I’ll look into some of the more powerful ones…

What about Jellyfin or Emby?

There are Jellyfin shares and Emby shares too, there should be a relevant subreddit that lists them periodically

I've tried both Jellyfin and Emby (as well as kodi), they're all 2nd rate compared to Plex. Plex is just such a polished experience with very few bugs compared to the other offerings.

Having said that, if you need something that's not built into Plex, there is little you can do to add it, that's where kodi etc shines, they have some massive catalogs of third party add ons.

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