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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/19/2015 11:27 AM, Kevin Johnson
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM,
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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>
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<div>That is a impressive machine. I have yet to switch my
frontends to xbmc but have been considering doing so for
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I use Kodi with mythtv plugin on Raspberry pi 2 on two frontends and
they perform perfectly, including High Definition. It is difficult
to beat the price on Raspberry pi 2 (currently $29.99 at micro
center). Raspberry pi 2 being a linux machine it is far easier for
me to customize things like menus, network connections for videos,
etc. <br>
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Peter<br>
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