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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
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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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Interesting, does the RP2 deal with MPEG-2 OK (I have Freeview DVB
files), and does it have support for 4K?<br>
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I'm particularly interested in why it's easier to manage the KODI
menus, network connections etc in Linux than in Android, as I plan
to implement KODI on my REVOs which are Linux based. I was under the
impression that the menus and network stuff in KODI was all done
within either the config file or in KODI itself, at least that's how
I've done it.<br>
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As a Unix admin of over 30 years, I didn't find it any easier to
setup in Linux than in Android, and the web browsing in Android is
many times faster than under Linux on my REVOs. The other advantage
I've found with Android devices is that you can easily get apps for
things like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD, etc etc which
simply aren't available on Linux unfortunately.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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