Current fire sticks and Nvidia shields need a spec bump. I think they are starting to show their age. But Amazon is getting push back from content providers saying they enable piracy so time will tell what direction they end up going. People may have to go back to media center PCs if companies start to lock products down.
I'm a huge fan of Chromebox. Even the oldest ones are great, the only issue is that CEC which can be fixed with an adapter or you can use a media center type remote.
