2014-07-29, 18:36
Hello all,
I currently have an Intel NUC i5 Haswell PC for my Home Theater HTPC. It works great! I use it with our Epson 3D projector on 100" screen. I have Pioneer SC-1522-K AVR providing us with 9.2 surround sound and we LOVE it!
I have 2 Lenovo IX4-300d NAS drives in my network closet providing us our media. I have 1 just for all my Bluray and 3d Bluray .iso files. Also is running MySQL to keep database here. I use TMT on the NUC to play them externally via XBMC. The other NAS is hacked running Sabnzbd, Sick Beard and Couchpotatoe. This NAS is where I download stuff to and provides us our TV shows and stuff from CP.
Well my wife loves the setup (after not happy with the $$). She now would like to add 1 or 2 clients. I was thinking about cheaper NUCs but would like to spend less. Right now I am trying out Amazon Fire TV with XBMC. It's ok. Seems to be fine with TV but when playing back Blurays seems to lag some. I am not sure if this is the hardware or the fact Amazon only put 10/100 NIC in these. Seems like should have had 10/100/1000.
Anyone have some suggestions?
I currently have an Intel NUC i5 Haswell PC for my Home Theater HTPC. It works great! I use it with our Epson 3D projector on 100" screen. I have Pioneer SC-1522-K AVR providing us with 9.2 surround sound and we LOVE it!
I have 2 Lenovo IX4-300d NAS drives in my network closet providing us our media. I have 1 just for all my Bluray and 3d Bluray .iso files. Also is running MySQL to keep database here. I use TMT on the NUC to play them externally via XBMC. The other NAS is hacked running Sabnzbd, Sick Beard and Couchpotatoe. This NAS is where I download stuff to and provides us our TV shows and stuff from CP.
Well my wife loves the setup (after not happy with the $$). She now would like to add 1 or 2 clients. I was thinking about cheaper NUCs but would like to spend less. Right now I am trying out Amazon Fire TV with XBMC. It's ok. Seems to be fine with TV but when playing back Blurays seems to lag some. I am not sure if this is the hardware or the fact Amazon only put 10/100 NIC in these. Seems like should have had 10/100/1000.
Anyone have some suggestions?