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We used to use XBMC and switched to Plex. We still use XBMC occasionally when I haven't added something to Plex yet but in general I find the experience of Plex is much nicer. Once you set it up you can pretty much just forget about it.

I haven't found any way for XBMC to transcode and stream or sync to other devices, which are very handy features of Plex that I'd hate to lose.

Even just having a unified experience is great. It feels painful having to browse through countless third party apps on the Play Store just to find a remote that works. Plex has an official app that's clearly branded as such. Plus having one library for all the devices around the place is great. XBMC doesn't seem to do that as far as I can see.


I haven't used the Android app but I can vouch for the Media Center app. We use it nearly every night at home and it works beautifully.


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