2010-04-23, 11:31
too expensive and i would never pay a monthly fee
i am happy with xbmc on my computer as my computer is connected to my lcd
i am happy with xbmc on my computer as my computer is connected to my lcd
eg4190 Wrote:There's definitely a market for something like this, because a lot of my non-techie friends are completely blown away when they see my XBMC setup and want one for themselves, but they would have no idea how to go about building a set-top box of their own and installing XBMC on it and I'm too busy to do it for them.
But one thing to really consider is that the demand isn't necessarily just for the hardware/software work that goes into setting up XBMC, because the end user would also have to do a significant amount of work to sort their media in such a way that XBMC can scrape it.
You'd have a lot of unhappy customers if you just sold the box with XBMC pre-installed, they booted it up into the pretty interface, then they started downloading a bunch of improperly named torrents all into one folder and were shocked when the media didn't scrape properly.
In order to be successful, you'd also have to organize your customer's existing media for them, then install a comprehensive set of sorting/renaming scripts on their computer so they didn't have to worry about the backend at all. And you'd have to offer some kind of ongoing tech support for the issues that would come up.