I bought a monitor since the smarts in my smart-tv died, making the entire display unusable. Now I wanted to use a separate SBC for smarts in the “dumb” monitor. I would have gone for a modded fire-stick, but Amazon in their infinite wisdom, sunset all versions except the 720p potato and the smart-speaker-cube. I’m currently using a RaspberryPi 4 and looking at argon one for a remote control case. Googles widevine does limit the DRM on some content I “own” though. With Amazon on course to EOL the more sane sticks, are there any well-moddable streaming-sticks/boxes, that bring the relevant codecs and DRMs?
Yeah, it’s kinda telling, if you look at my prime subscription for example. I can either:
Hook into the web-service with Kodi, breaking TOS and theoretically risking the account. While Google, missing their widevine tax, limits the quality.
Pirate the same content without an account, at full 4K.
It’s truly a service problem.
Yes.
Not quite. The Kodi plugin still uses Widevine. You just don’t get higher quality content unless your hardware is “certified” with some key burnt in at the factory, or some such nonsense.
Yes, that’s what I meant by “widevine tax”, the certification is done by Google for a fee.