<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Gordon McCrae <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordon.mccrae@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordon.mccrae@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Personally I'd recommend the DroidBox
T8, I have Acer Revo boxes with MythFrontend throughout the house
(five of them), but as they are getting a little long in the
tooth, and I already had to use my spare because the fan died on
one of them, I started looking for alternatives.<br>
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After playing with KODI on my Android tablet, and satisfying
myself that it was a usable replacement for MythFrontend, I bought
a T8, and I must say it's much better for media only situations
than the REVO. the menus are more responsive, videos start playing
immediately instead of a 2-3 second delay, scrolling through lists
is much faster etc. All in all, I must say it's a fantastic little
box, and only £99 here in the UK. I bought mine with the
air-mouse, which didn't turn out to be a good option for the WAF,
as they struggle with the mouse mode, so I'd recommend existing
users to stick with the standard remote for now. I've configure
KODI to use an MSQL database to store centralised video/music
lists, and overall I find it to be very usable.<br>
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My family are still struggling with the fact that it's "different"
from the rest of the frontends, so I plan to just install KODI on
the REVOs and get rid of MythFrontend entirely. The plan is to use
T8s where all that is needed is media / web browsing / general
android like interface, and to keep REVOs for the kids' desktops
where they actually need to login to a Linux machine for
LibreOffice, Firefox etc.<br>
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Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Gordon</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>That is a impressive machine. I have yet to switch my frontends to xbmc but have been considering doing so for some time. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>