The verdict
Media servers
The reason we chose Kodi as our winner is that it’s so versatile. It’s hard to think of a way of working with media files that Kodi can’t be persuaded to do. Often, when we considered the advantages of one of the other servers, we noticed that Kodi could work like that as well. It’s also the only one of these servers that can be connected to a TV as a true HTPC (home theatre personal computer) without depending on being connected to a network. On the other hand, it can also be used as a network server using the DLNA protocol.