[mythtv-users] ECS Liva BAT-MINI v1.0 Still OK as a FE?

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Michelle Dupuis <mdupuis at ocg.ca> wrote:

> I’ve found a lot of turnkey ‘kodi’ boxes that run linux. Priced in the $80
> range.  I can’t help but wonder if these would be ideal Myth FE boxes too.
> Have you looked at those?
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> *From:* mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf
> Of *David Whyte
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 09, 2016 6:10 AM
> *To:* Myth TV Users List
> *Subject:* [mythtv-users] ECS Liva BAT-MINI v1.0 Still OK as a FE?
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> G'day all,
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> My FE  (circa 2004 Pentium M with Intel graphics) is ready for replacing
> and I have seen good things about the ECS Liva line and they seem quite
> cheap...unless you live in Australia.
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> Luckily, I am in the US this next week and thought about picking a couple
> up.  Through unfortunate timing, the Liva X on newegg seems to have
> increased considerably in price in the last week.
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> I have found some of the original BAT-MINI ones at $70 delivered (to the
> US) though on eBay.  Are these still recommended by those that have them?
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> Regards,
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> Whytey
>
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'kodi' boxes such as? Low cost/power frontends are often limited by
MythTV's support of graphics hardware. I am not me knocking MythTV for
anyone about to tell me to contribute. Kodi has much larger developer base
to support a larger set of hardware.

-Tom
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