Kodi Entertainment Center - http://kodi.tv
Kodi (formally known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
Kodi has a lot of offer from Music, Movies, TV Shows, Pictures, PVR, Add-ons, Skins, UPnP, Web UI, Remote Controls.
Starting with version 14, XBMC will be named Kodi. 13.2 “Gotham” will be the last version named XBMC.
Find out more: http://kodi.tv/about/
"We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14.
Since 2002, the software known as XBMC has gone through three namings. First, it was called Xbox Media Player. Upon realizing that it did a bit more than your traditional media player, in 2004 the development team elected to rename it Xbox Media Center. A mere 4 years later in 2008, the team once again elected to rename the software to simply XBMC, given that it had moved on from its original roots on the Xbox. Support for the Xbox was dropped shortly thereafter. Today it’s all happening one last time."
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Kodi (formally known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
Kodi has a lot of offer from Music, Movies, TV Shows, Pictures, PVR, Add-ons, Skins, UPnP, Web UI, Remote Controls.
Starting with version 14, XBMC will be named Kodi. 13.2 “Gotham” will be the last version named XBMC.
Find out more: http://kodi.tv/about/
"We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14.
Since 2002, the software known as XBMC has gone through three namings. First, it was called Xbox Media Player. Upon realizing that it did a bit more than your traditional media player, in 2004 the development team elected to rename it Xbox Media Center. A mere 4 years later in 2008, the team once again elected to rename the software to simply XBMC, given that it had moved on from its original roots on the Xbox. Support for the Xbox was dropped shortly thereafter. Today it’s all happening one last time."
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- Real World Problems
- Legal Problems
- Results of the new name, Kodi
- The last XBMC shirt ever
- Conclusion
