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Wait for a good deal and go for the shield (good deal is about 160€ with remote and controller), it will also be cheaper than a new htpc. Don't know where you are but Guess that if you can order from Germany, you can order from France. At the moment, you can buy from Amazon France at 214.99€ (controller + remote)
Fire TV stick 4k can't passthrough DTS MA or TrueHD. Rumor has it that MiBox are going that way.
If shield is not an option, then consider cheap amlogic s9xx Android box with CoreELEC. No Netflix HD, though.
can you buy a shield on ebay using ebay GSP?
TL, DR: need a speedy box with remote for Kodi+Netflix, around 150€ budget.
= Shield
Otherwise non Kodi (use Infuse or MrMC Apps), no Bluray lossless Atmos = Apple TV 4K:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=335219
Auto Frame Rate Matching is really important for UK / European / Australiasia media player usage because you have to also deal with 25/50fps video content - yes even from Netflix with BBC and European sourced content streaming at 25fps.
Catchup TV Apps also need 25/50fps support in the territories mentioned.
It's a PITA manually changing media player video output refresh rates trying to guess the source video's fps to sync up and match for smooth video playback.
North American Android TV users only really have to deal with 29.97 and 59.94fps (60Hz) - so simply manually set Android TV output to 60 Hz and let their modern TV's smooth out resulting movie 24p video judder. Which many TV's now do:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/motion/24p
Best Netflix platform = Apple TV 4K (lossy Atmos, auto Frame Rate Matching, DolbyVision)
Best Android Kodi platform = NVIDIA Shield.
Android TV 5.1 Netflix audio needs a HDMI connected audio receiver that supports DD+ otherwise expect 2.0 PCM Netflix (& Prime Video) Audio. It's one of Android TV's achilles heals.
This post is useful:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=252916&pid=2192251#pid2192251
this is a question for /u/biggussdikkuss
Save for a Shield. Trust me when I say it's not worth the headaches trying to make something else work. Cheap devices will give you sub par results. There's a reason the Shield is still king. I have never had an issue with either of my two Shields. Had cheap Android boxes and nothing but problems.
I know it's not what you want to hear but pay once cry once.