2010-10-06, 12:47
Hey XBMC Guys !
just felt like letting you know :
Today Amazon delivered my brandnew Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 and after the usual 10 mins of Windows7 setup (you know, username etc) and another 20 mins of Win7 updates the first thing i did was install XBMC Dharma Beta2 and map my network drive (on another Win7 machine, mapped as drive Z
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So, after booting up XBMC, i set the Source for the Movies, downloaded Shade as the Skin, setup Hardware Accelerated DXVA2 and tried out the first movie ...
Flawless ! It runs 25-35 MB/s FullHD movies over HDMI on my 40" screen without the slightest stutter, and without any kind of hassle setting the system up (no compiling, no branched version, nothing!)
This, dear XBMC development team, is _exactly_ where i wanted to see XBMC go ... and it looks alot like you absolutely nailed it this time !
You have brought XBMC to a level where delivering it packaged with hardware has become a serious option, and i hope this is going to start soon in a big way, because you have obviously managed to work all kinks out necessary to make it absolutely user-friendly (i am aware of many of the kinks still going on, but for a non-tech-savvy person, they mostly don't even come up).
Kudos guys ! Been using the whole palette of scene-software (XBMC, Boxee, Plex on my Mac, Windows Media Server etc) and i'm finally _really_ impressed !
Keep it up !
just felt like letting you know :
Today Amazon delivered my brandnew Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 and after the usual 10 mins of Windows7 setup (you know, username etc) and another 20 mins of Win7 updates the first thing i did was install XBMC Dharma Beta2 and map my network drive (on another Win7 machine, mapped as drive Z
.So, after booting up XBMC, i set the Source for the Movies, downloaded Shade as the Skin, setup Hardware Accelerated DXVA2 and tried out the first movie ...
Flawless ! It runs 25-35 MB/s FullHD movies over HDMI on my 40" screen without the slightest stutter, and without any kind of hassle setting the system up (no compiling, no branched version, nothing!)
This, dear XBMC development team, is _exactly_ where i wanted to see XBMC go ... and it looks alot like you absolutely nailed it this time !
You have brought XBMC to a level where delivering it packaged with hardware has become a serious option, and i hope this is going to start soon in a big way, because you have obviously managed to work all kinks out necessary to make it absolutely user-friendly (i am aware of many of the kinks still going on, but for a non-tech-savvy person, they mostly don't even come up).
Kudos guys ! Been using the whole palette of scene-software (XBMC, Boxee, Plex on my Mac, Windows Media Server etc) and i'm finally _really_ impressed !
Keep it up !
