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What everyone should focus on is that Freescale processors are awesome, and it's awesome to see more people use them. They're one of the most open and well documented ARM processors for open source software (if I understand correctly). Everybody wins.

You also know that cubox / freescale was already nearly dead (!) before we came somewhere near to helix, because not a single fix came upstream after the initial push. It was a great mess to dig arround and find fixes absolutely needed somewhere in the "big cubox distros", be it xbian or OpenELEC. Half of the fixes were totally wrong and harmed the box (triple cpu load in audio engine). These issues were first fixed and changed when taken upstream.

So I hope for the future, that we can work together upstream to bring the core technology (Video / Audio playback) to all users, we are not there yet! You know the cubox for now, will blacken on every third or fourth video playback, cause there is a race between renderer and decoder. The cubox for now is nowhere nearly able to play 1080i50 content, it just copes with non doubled deinterlacing of 576i content, outputting at 25 fps. So I am also quite curious on the Cubox TV - cause yeah basic live tv content does not work at all yet! Concerning the 24p playback - a gpu driven reference clock is plain missing.

These named issues are absolutely needed when establishing a box like this. Remember: Even the PI can do the mentioned content and even ATV21 is able to do that.

Those issues are not unsolvable and they are currently worked on, but should be solved first before another digsize war is starting. I expect the global players here to invest time and also PR own fixes. It's an absolute no go to carry patches in local or hidden repositories just for the sake of being better than someone else.

@Sam: One finale question: Do you really plan to release an ATV helix release with working CHD code? It's really not a shame to not do so, because we had a reason to remove it, but don't keep hopes high if you exactly know it won't happen or better said it can't happen cause of other infrastructure changes in kodi.

Edit: And not to forget. I wish you and your hw project all the best. It will be a rough time with all users starting to bikeshed when things don't work as they expect it. It is a big step in your personal business life to do so, finally coming up with something working in a complete package. Cudos for this! And to make that clear: I am only interested in the implementation / upstream support of the chip features. I neither use OpenELEC (not possible for development) nor debian as it does not fit in my infrastracture. You will have success with the box when all the mentioned issues are worked out.