aardvark_admin wrote:Yeah... I think I'll make up a new SD card so we can use my RP (that presently runs Kodi) as an Ethernet/WiFi bridge for the BluRay player.
It depends what you want to play.
I have a roku 3....it's old now, a great little device...and if you tell it you're in the uk rather than nz or the states, it's much better with itv, bbc, channel 4 access. The us is too locked down, and in nz, it only really has netflix and youtube - but it can get plex, so you can play most media files pretty happily. But that's on a secondary tv.
Primary tv I use an apple tv 4....this at least does everything, and has local content provider support...but it's not the cheapest.
The advantage of a "proper" media player (as opposed to a built one, or those weird android "kodi" boxes), is they come with a proper remote. The android tv media player I bought a few years ago had a remote, but it thought it was a phone, so the interface was very touch based.....to the point it had a mouse pointer, that you controlled with up, down, left, right buttons....so frurstrating. RPi you can get CEC working, or add an infrared remote to get it to work properly, but it's not an out of the box experience