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    <div>On 6/24/2015 9:39 AM, Larry Kennedy
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Tom
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                  <div>On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Nick
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                              <div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Mon, Jun
                                  15, 2015 at 2:09 AM, paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thannet@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:thannet@gmail.com" target="_blank">thannet@gmail.com</a>></span>
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                                      interesting. Perhaps if there was
                                      enough willing to support the Pi
                                      with some cash, then you never now
                                      there may be someone to take on
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                                      I have tried Kodi, worked quite
                                      well, but the interface was too
                                      much of a culture change for all
                                      of us in the house. At vote was
                                      taken, and we all prefer the
                                      simple familiar Mythfrontend. <br>
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                                <div>I just forced it. You get used to
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                    <div>I also tried Kodi, and while there is a
                      learning curve in getting used to the new UI, it's
                      not a showstopper.</div>
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                    <div>The blocker for me was the slow 'skip ahead'
                      responsiveness.   Myth Frontend is amazingly fast,
                      Kodi on Openelec/Pi2 was slow.</div>
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                    <div>I would definitely be willing to pitch in some
                      cash if it would help move a MythTV frontend
                      along.</div>
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            <div>Given that an ECS Liva can run a MythTV frontend very
              well, I have to wonder if the trade-offs in user
              satisfaction and the effort required to make MythTV work
              on a device that costs about half as much is worth it? <br>
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    And if that $80 price is for real, that is actually very close to
    the real price of a Raspberry Pi: $30 for the board, $10 for a case,
    $10 for memory, $10 for micro-USB cable and power plug, $10 for HDMI
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The Liva also doesn't have an HDMI cable, but I would agree that it is basically equivalent in price.  It also comes with Wifi (although I don't use it for much on either of mine) and the RPi doesn't.<br></div></div>