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2019-05-22, 18:24
(This post was last modified: 2019-05-22, 18:30 by CraigHB.)
Yeah for sure it doesn't make sense to put a high end box on a "kitchen" TV. I only have one TV and that's the one in my home theater system. It's not a matter of money for me, it's just I only watch TV there. I want high end equipment in my system so that's my perspective.
I did actually buy an S905X board to start, but I wasn't sure how Kodi would work out for me so I didn't want to spend a lot to try it. It works great so I went and picked up the high end one, no regrets, really happy with it.
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I have the Beelink GT-King coming, since it has been confirmed to have an UNlocked bootloader, hoping the devs at CoreELEC will support it. Adamg assured me, that they would do their best to create ports for the third party Amlogic S922x boxes.
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I guess 'expensive' is in the eye of the beholder :-), i had a Intel NUC 7th gen with an i5 and 8GB of RAM, it cost me a fortune!, £450 all in after i bought the RAM and a decent SSD, i suffered thermal issues with it and the fan noise drove me mental (located in lounge) so i bought the Odroid N2 and in comparison its significantly cheaper (£130 all in for me), silent, and actually plays all my content BETTER than the NUC, so for me personally, the N2 was cheap and the performance in the Kodi UI is VERY close to the NUC.
Now for $15-$20 is just another ball game and i guess at that price point the N2 IS expensive :-). can i ask which make/model of s905 you went for?.
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That's pretty darn cheap, about 15 USD. Wow, didn't the pound used to be almost two USD? Anyway I started with a Le Potato which was like 30 USD. I just ran it with an SD card and power supply I already had sitting around. The N2 was about 135 USD all in after buying the additional stuff I needed or wanted. Pretty big price difference but still not much money compared to what I spent on the TV and AVR. They're actually getting old now, but they were expensive when I bought them. Probably time to upgrade pretty soon, actually been browsing new models.
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Is the new N2 can replace my good old Asus Chromebox? I need 4k, hdr, atmos, and de-interlacing 1080i h264 TV channels.
I can live with Netflix being 1080 as the TV probably will have some app installed on top of tizen/webos
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Yes the CoreELEC forum is the place to find info on the N2, but S922X based boards and boxes other than the N2 are starting to pop up now. Not sure if and when LibreELEC is going to support that SoC so right now CoreELEC is it. They only support the N2 at this point, but I'm sure they'll support other S922X makes as they become more available.