Hardware for 4K movies

    Hello Friends,

    may i reactivate this thread...

    I have upgraded my Home Cinema Setup to 4k with a Nuc11 and the Optoma Uhz2000.

    After i got the Info to use the No.2 HDMI Port (right from backside), it works now with LE perfectly and plays back the 4k movies in my library. (tested with Titanic, HP deadly hollows, maveric)

    Now the Hardware Questions: I read a lot these days about Nvidia Shield and other boxes (Android TV, et al.).

    Could anybody explain in short terms, is it worth to get one of thoses additionally to the Nuc? Do they something more/better? What could i watch with them additional?

    First, i want to get the German TV Librairies up and running (Ard, ZDF, et al), i think there is an Addon from Kodinerds.

    Then i like to play my yt channels (have to setup those API keys stuff).

    What else is there with 4k Content?


    Thanks a lot for some new hardware geeks... :)

    PS: i was too long out of this topic, playing my 1080p library along. I started with my first HomeCinema in 2001... don't ask what we spend on decent Beamer Hardware those days... :)

    Your NUC will give you best performance in terms of UI navigation, scanning files into Kodi libraries, applying LE updates etc.

    For me, the only reason you'd consider another box is for Dolby Vision support (you'll need a TV that supports DoVi too although some players will support tone mapping or on the fly conversion of DoVi to HDR10+ using CoreElec, sister of LE).

    HDR vs Dovi is not a significant 'upgrade' IMO, but players that support DoVi FEL (more video data) can look better. FEL is on 4K UHD releases only. And not all Dovi UHD releases have FEL. So unless you want to chase technical nirvana, on a subset of releases only, its not critical at all IMO.

    Having said that I do have 2 x Ugoos AM6B players, but I only use those for Movies. I mostly use Kodi for music and I use my NUCs for music (nearly 2500 albums & concerts). Scanning those is so much slower using non-NUCs. Many time slower!!