[jubilex]

I've been looking into deinterlacing recently on Android platforms as it appears there is some trouble with mpeg2 Interlaced content and the Android mediacodec(stagefright) decoder. If its H264 Interlaced content only you are watching that is Transcoded from a HDHomerun you will likely be fine.

Basically the Android OS looks like it refuses to hardware decode this mpeg2 Interlaced combo using mediacodec.
The FireTV's have issues, the Google Nexus HERE, the nVIDIA Shield is having problems HERE , and the new AML S905, if its using mediacodec will also have issues. Basically its a Google Android OS problem.

They all default to ff-mpeg2 Software decoding and deinterlacing, which is inferior to superior quality deinterlacing out of a hardware VPU (Visual Processing Unit).

For excellent quality mpeg2 TV broadcast hardware deinterlacing on a budget you grab a RPi2/3 or a AMLogic box, preferably a AML S812-H or a S905, and use amcodec to hardware decode with the VPU doing the Motion Adaptive deinterlacing.

If you want 1080p Netflix with a AMLogic box the only option is a WeTek Core, that can also run the remote control friendly Android TV OS version of Netflix with Android OS dynamic refresh rate switching, just recently being included into that.

Thanks for all the info! Bummer about the deinterlacing. I thought I read in another thread that WeTek only does 720p Netflix. Realistically that's probably not an issue where this box will be going, bedroom where we'd be 15-20' from a 47".

RP3 looks intriguing, especially since it looks like it will have Android before too long, but I guess it would have the same deinterlacing issue and also no 1080p Netflix regardless.