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Hello, before I pull the trigger on the ASUS Chromebox M004U I just need to verify one thing - does it support surround sound? I'll be putting this through an Onkyo 7.1 system and if it doesn't support surround sound it's useless to me. I read in a couple other threads that it wasn't really supported so I need to be sure first if there are any experts here who can verify this...?
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Does SSD vs HDD vs SSHD really make a difference when it comes to playback and such(not streaming)?
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2015-03-10, 03:55
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-10, 04:42 by redjester.)
Im looking at the $100 range and have been strongly considering the amazon fire or the raspberry pi 2 platform... It looks like to make the RPI2 fully functional w a power supply, sd card case and shipping I would be running ~$75? The only downside I see on the RPI2 is that it doesn't have wifi. But will the amazon fire be able to stream well enough on wifi or will I have to connect it via ethernet?
One other option that I was considering was the roku 3 solely for the reason that it has a headphone jack on the remote. I know this seems gimmicky, but it would be great to be able to run on the treadmill and have earphones. I am assuming that there must be some sort of app that you could use on your iPhone with kodi that would allow you to do this with any platform? Does anyone have experience/recommendations with this?
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If you can stretch your budget $20, you can get a Chromebox.
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some people say they're no good. In my opinion samsung hdd aren't as bad as some of other brands I've owned.
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Unfortunately Android and Live TV = best of luck with that, especially in a stick format.
Deinterlacing will be a problem generally with any Android device, it may work at a SD resolution but HD forget about it.
Save yourself grief now and get a RPi 2 regardless of what your girlfriend is used to. She won't be happy with crap picture quality.
The learning curve is not at all hard with the RPi2, if you get the correct parts to start off with.
Get a cheap Fire TV stick as well for paid services like Netflix to complement the RPi2. You have the cheapest and best of both worlds then without compromising video picture quality or paid services.
You have backed yourself into a corner, and need widen your focus.