Many US consumers have tired of the ever-escalating monthly cable bill. Wait a minute, if the cable and television companies force you to use their receivers, how can Tvheadend and Kodi help? Actually, there are a couple of methods for using these applications to provide live (and recorded) television content. This software is not a part of Kodi and the shady organizations are not associated in any way with the Kodi developers. The problem is, some shady organizations have made illegal content available through the use of Kodi add-on software. These sources can include your DVD collection, home movies, and other legal content that you own. Kodi is used to stream video from various sources to a television for viewing. It's worthwhile to note here that Kodi has taken some heat recently by the uniformed who claim that Kodi is software used for pirating video from content providers.

One option that has been available to US consumers who did not want to accept the standard viewing experience, has been to use a streaming device and media center software such as Kodi . Yes, this is the same Ajit Pai who is pushing for repeal of Net Neutrality within the US. But the new FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, killed the proposal within a few weeks of his appointment as Chairman of the FCC. A few years ago, the FCC was considering a proposal requiring cable companies to allow third party set-top-box (STB) receivers. This generates millions of dollars for content providers, but severely limits the viewing experience for consumers. Consumers must rent that hardware from the service provider, one box for every television. In the USA, cable and (for the most part) satellite providers require proprietary hardware to receive and display the video signals. In other countries (particularly European countries), video services are provided by satellite (-S), cable (-C) or terrestrial (-T) methods to receivers that distribute content based on open standards. Many of the acronyms refer to broadcast standards that are not used in the US, In a nutshell, Tvheadend is open source software that acts as a dvr and live streaming server for Kodi and other media center applications.

USA based readers will most likely read that intro paragraph from the Tvheadend website and wonder exactly what Tvheadend does and what most of those acronyms mean. Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and recorder for Linux, FreeBSD and Android supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

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