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If you're unhappy with it, get rid. I gave it to my mom to replace recently died htpc and she's very happy with XBMC on OUYA.
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draztik, I don't think you understand what it means to have a locked or unlocked bootloader. All that matters is that you are able to install whatever OS on the hardware that you want. As for installing Google Play Store, heck, even our own
OUYA (wiki) wiki page will link you to an install guide. Users are able to do just about whatever they want, and it's very well documented and open by all reasonable definitions of the word "open".
Google doesn't allow the Play Store on modified Android installs. Get mad at them, not OUYA, for no Play Store out-of-the-box. It's legally not an option for OUYA to include it, but any user can install it after they get it.
For $100, no one is going to come to your house and wipe your ass for you.
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(2013-10-22, 21:33)draztik Wrote: (2013-10-22, 19:23)oldpoem Wrote: (2013-10-22, 17:25)draztik Wrote: I know what it means to unlock the bootloader.....
The majority of the people on this forum want to use it with XBMC, If you were able to use it with a version of linux (not dealing with setting up accounts with credit cards) and no android overhead, This box would be THE XBMC media center or just a great hardware box for any version of Linux. Not everyone knows that they can install the Play store as they don't see it when their looking for it in the menus.
And for $100...it can't even wipe its own ass. OUYA shit all over itself....
The logic is flaw though. I don't think anyone who can't install play store on android box would be able to install linux on android box. I don't see the point of unlock bootloader on OUYA though because I can install CWM / root / run debian without having to unlock bootloader. What's the point?
Ability to running linux doesn't mean it would always has hw decoder. It would still need drivers to properly enable that feature and not all ARM devices provided it.
The above will absolutely work but the risk factors and ease of use to get CWM installed is difficult and risk of bricking it. The above is NOT an easy fool proof method to get Linux on it. no where near as easy as loading an img from USB in recovery etc.. I definitely will not buy one just to tinker. The above its not an option for most and I think you can agree. BTW, I thought video already running at 1080P with HW acceleration in Linux?
Using GStreamer, yes, but using gstreamer with/in XBMC is something that would need work (there is some efforts already in this direction from past projects).
And for $100 people are still buying Apple TVs and Rokus, and an OUYA can do just about everything they can do and more. Even if you could only use Android and Android apps, I think the idea that it is somehow a bad deal is laughable. I don't care if it was marketed for games or not, because for the hardware and for the XBMC performance, it's still a damn good deal.
