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News with the Tag: April Fools

Kodi bandwidth speed limit

April Fools 

Kodi's Response to Internet Issues

Kodi's Response to Internet Issues Team Kodi would like to wish you all good health and security during this difficult time for the world. With almost everyone working and schooling from home now, the internet and world wide web are under severe strain for bandwidth and data volume. Many streaming…

Team Kodi

March 31, 2020·1 min read
Kodi MultiPass

April Fools 

Presenting KodiTV MultiPass

This is going to be short and sweet: we proudly present KodiTV™ MultiPass! Starting at 00:00 UTC, our servers will deploy an update to your Kodi install if you're in North America (Canada not included) or Europe. Unfortunately the broadcasting rights don't allow us to offer the service to other…

Cris Silva (h.udo)

March 31, 2019·1 min read

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April Fools 

Kodi No More! - April Fools

Update: Of course, this was an open source joke. We're going to keep supporting all the platforms and keep our Kodi username. The XBMC shirt is actually real though, so you are welcome to keep grabbing those if you, but only for a few more days. As many of you may have noticed, Google has decided…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2018·2 min read
alissa-eady-92378 - compressed

April Fools 

And.....we're baaaaack!

Happy April, everyone. Did you miss us? :) Apologies if we scared you, but you'll have noticed that we've redecorated while you were looking the other way. Some might even suggest that taking the website and forum down for a couple of days was all part of the plan... However, despite the…

Prof Yaffle

April 01, 2017·3 min read
hasselhoff_crop2-600x336

April Fools 

April fools: Introducting XBMC 14 - The Hoff

Note: This was of course an April fools prank. The real codename for v14 has since been established as ‘Helix’. Amid all this news of the XBMC 13 release (Just now hitting Beta 3), we have some developers who are beginning to submit features for the upcoming XBMC 14, which, of course, means we…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
xbmc_immersive

April Fools 

XBMC Goes Back to its Roots [April Fools]

Sranshaft's Immersive skin is a leading candidate for new default XBMC skin After extensive contract talks and negotiations, we at XBMC are excited to announce an early agreement to work with Microsoft to replace the now defunct Windows Media Center with XBMC for Modern UI (formerly “Metro”) using…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2013·2 min read

April Fools 

[April Fool's Day] Partnership with Sony, Movie streaming Add-on unveiled

Today we are proud to announce an exciting new partnership. In early May 2010, a representative at Sony Japan’s Home Theater and Console division expressed interest in using XBMC as a delivery platform for its newest content. After nearly a year of development, we have delivered a product that is…

Team XBMC

March 31, 2011·2 min read

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All News653Community Updates176Conferences56Deep Dive14DevCon33Developer Updates129Prerelease Announcements138Release Announcements66April Fools7

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Kodi bandwidth speed limit

April Fools 

Kodi's Response to Internet Issues

Kodi's Response to Internet Issues Team Kodi would like to wish you all good health and security during this difficult time for the world. With almost everyone working and schooling from home now, the internet and world wide web are under severe strain for bandwidth and data volume. Many streaming…

Team Kodi

March 31, 2020·1 min read
Kodi MultiPass

April Fools 

Presenting KodiTV MultiPass

This is going to be short and sweet: we proudly present KodiTV™ MultiPass! Starting at 00:00 UTC, our servers will deploy an update to your Kodi install if you're in North America (Canada not included) or Europe. Unfortunately the broadcasting rights don't allow us to offer the service to other…

Cris Silva (h.udo)

March 31, 2019·1 min read
XBMC_media_center_main

April Fools 

Kodi No More! - April Fools

Update: Of course, this was an open source joke. We're going to keep supporting all the platforms and keep our Kodi username. The XBMC shirt is actually real though, so you are welcome to keep grabbing those if you, but only for a few more days. As many of you may have noticed, Google has decided…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2018·2 min read
alissa-eady-92378 - compressed

April Fools 

And.....we're baaaaack!

Happy April, everyone. Did you miss us? :) Apologies if we scared you, but you'll have noticed that we've redecorated while you were looking the other way. Some might even suggest that taking the website and forum down for a couple of days was all part of the plan... However, despite the…

Prof Yaffle

April 01, 2017·3 min read
hasselhoff_crop2-600x336

April Fools 

April fools: Introducting XBMC 14 - The Hoff

Note: This was of course an April fools prank. The real codename for v14 has since been established as ‘Helix’. Amid all this news of the XBMC 13 release (Just now hitting Beta 3), we have some developers who are beginning to submit features for the upcoming XBMC 14, which, of course, means we…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2014·2 min read
xbmc_immersive

April Fools 

XBMC Goes Back to its Roots [April Fools]

Sranshaft's Immersive skin is a leading candidate for new default XBMC skin After extensive contract talks and negotiations, we at XBMC are excited to announce an early agreement to work with Microsoft to replace the now defunct Windows Media Center with XBMC for Modern UI (formerly “Metro”) using…

Nathan Betzen

March 31, 2013·2 min read

April Fools 

[April Fool's Day] Partnership with Sony, Movie streaming Add-on unveiled

Today we are proud to announce an exciting new partnership. In early May 2010, a representative at Sony Japan’s Home Theater and Console division expressed interest in using XBMC as a delivery platform for its newest content. After nearly a year of development, we have delivered a product that is…

Team XBMC

March 31, 2011·2 min read
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