[oWarchild]

Intel (and AMD) are lagging behind in their HEVC implementations... Even VP9 seems to supported in hybrid manner while the Tegra X1 has hardware support for it.

If encoding HEVC is not a requirement I would rather opt for an Intel Braswell box instead of Skylake. Braswell hardware decodes HEVC 8-bit and it's surely cheaper. Having said that, Skylake does offer a chance of supporting 4K@60Hz via DP to HDMI 2.0 converter while Braswell can't go beyond 4K@30Hz as it uses DP 1.1 (which can be a problem for live / recorded TV).