[twinpeaks]

Ok so i have kind of cruised this thread to get the jist of things so to confirm:

1) The NUC7 (in my case NUC7i3) will NOT currently do HDR in Kodi, PowerDVD Ultra is required.
2) It WILL do ATMOS passthrough in Kodi but not HDR.
3) It will NOT passthrough ATMOS in Linux at this time. (HDR in linux?)
4) NUC6i5 is HDMI1.4 and therefore cant do Atmos + HDR + 4k.
5) HDR in Kodi should work once (Intel or Windows?) releases an update?

My situation is I have an Nvidia Shield TV and it works pretty ok with my marantz SR7011 and my LGC6 OLED however its not consistent. I have constant issues forexample skipping tracks on a bluray iso results in losing atmos and sound all together (even though it was working perfectly prior).

I thought maybe I would try a spare NUC7 i have to maybe use exclusively for Kodi for HDR+ATMOS at 4k but looks like this is a waste of time a the moment i guess?

thanks much

I wouldn't bother. I returned my Kaby Lake Beebox to Amazon (with documentation to show all defects.) It's not worth the hassle. It's crap right now. And we've waited months and months for Intel to do something. They didn't even have a 3D TV. There's something else that doesn't work - 3D in either HDMI 1.4 or 2.0 (Beebox has both that's why I bought it.) No matter if you use Kodi or PowerDVD. I didn't actually try that special Kodi MVC build to be honest, I spent about 10 hours researching how to make it do its functions that I bought it for - it's currently performing about at the level of a PS4 (not a PS4 Pro.)