DownTime 21 Posted January 12, 2017 I have a 2 Tb external hard drive that I link to my laptop and then to the tv to watch movies and stuff. My "hit the room like a hurricane" 2 year old boy bumped the laptop off of the floating shelf under the tv. I was thinking of using something else to prevent this from happening again and had a look at multi media players and the Raspberry Pi. What will be the best Pi to use as I see there is a Pi2, Pi3, A+, B+ model etc and do I need to load anything like KODI onto it to be able to watch movies? Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 12, 2017 I use OpenElec on a both a Pi2 and Pi3b. Kodi also worked on both but I like OpenElec more. Drive in my case is a QNAP where the entertainment is stored on. It uses less power than a Laptop. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superdiy 526 Posted January 12, 2017 I've been using a MEDE8ER MED500X since 2010 - ripped all the kid's DVDs onto the internal HDD and also use it for movies and series. It is still used daily by the kids - they have a choice of more than 300 of their DVDs and when they go to bed we usually watch an episode or two of one of our favorite series. I actually bought a newer model (MED800X3D) last year on special, copied everything from the MED500X's HDD to the MED800X3D's HDD, but never started to use the new M8R - the old one just keeps on working... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
