[fritsch]

I'm a little bit confused now. I really love the j1800 and j1900 boards. I read through the post but got lost a little.

1) At the moment, j1800/j1900 is working with Kodi and there are no hangups, or functionality limitations in terms of stability?

You need a special kernel with a workaround for the turbo issue. I have build such a kernel (see some pages before).

2) if I got this correctly, it is already possible to use hardware deinterlacing for 1808i (BOB) and there will be even more advanced hw deinterlacing available for BYT?

It can do 1080i50 with VAAPI-BOB. MADI is still worked on by intel - but we are nearly there yet.

3) are there any limitations on BYT that seams to be hard to solve

It's much too slow to do correct upscaling ....

4) from my understanding, if 1080i deinterlacing is working, then 1080i LiveTV should also work?

See above.

Why not getting a chromebox?