8GB RAM is more than enough for watching movies.
Load the whole movie into RAM and go to town.
The Nvidia Shield TV, which is amply powerful for most media purposes, has only 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, though is expandable via microSD.
The "Pro" version bumps that to a whopping 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage... with no microSD card slot.
You can expand it with a usb hard drive as large as you like though.
And half of it is used by Chinese spyware.
RethinkDNS has a lockdown mode where it blocks everything you don't explicitly unblock. Doesn't help with memory usage but might be useful to not be part of a botnet or ten.
Nobody will ever need more than 640kb anyways
For anyone who doesn't know this quote is attributed to Bill Gates, though he denied ever having said it
You weren't planning to store movies on the box, were you? Do yourself a favor and set up jellyfin on your network
"Powerful"
