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stammie · 2015-06-25, 17:45

How did you guys get an £85 offer from Flubit?
I was made an offer of £101 grrrr

Mark142 · 2015-06-25, 17:48

Not sure mine was 88

decpvr · 2015-06-25, 18:07

(2015-06-25, 17:45)stammie Wrote: How did you guys get an £85 offer from Flubit?
I was made an offer of £101 grrrr

I don't know how their system works. I've been with flubit for over a year and have ordered a few items with them. I don't know if that makes any difference or not?

I price matched against the Ebuyer offer. Which link did you use?

You could always refuse and say Ebuyer are cheaper (£99 free delivery). Maybe try requesting the demand again? Either way you could still get it cheaper than £101 as long as Ebuyer still have it in stock.

sshaikh · 2015-06-25, 18:47

Most likely they have some kind of elastic pricing based on demand/ebuyer's whim as a supplier. You'd probably need to wait a few days/a week for things to calm down again.

You could try bespoke offers too in the meantime but as they whitebox flubit you might not see a difference.

decpvr · 2015-06-25, 18:56

(2015-06-25, 18:47)sshaikh Wrote: Most likely they have some kind of elastic pricing based on demand/ebuyer's whim as a supplier. You'd probably need to wait a few days/a week for things to calm down again.

Yes, I can only imagine they've been selling a boatload of these at £85, so have upped the price.

Or they're running low (or out of) stock, so have raised the price to dissuade purchases.

MediaPi · 2015-06-25, 22:26

Even at £100 that's a great deal don't forget. I'm guessing 2 more weeks of stock left, still would be even better to get it below £90

decpvr · 2015-06-25, 23:42

(2015-06-25, 22:26)MediaPi Wrote: Even at £100 that's a great deal don't forget. I'm guessing 2 more weeks of stock left, still would be even better to get it below £90

Especially when you consider most Intel barebones devices are around the £100 mark. Add in the cost of RAM and a SSD/HDD and you're looking at somewhere between £150-£200 (depending if you have these lying around spare or not).

Of course that's still without an OS, but not such an issue these days with openelec and Linux for Kodi usage.

decpvr · 2015-06-26, 01:49

Ok, I've had a (very) quick test of mine in Windows only.

So far it seems great. My AV receiver is recognised and Kodi has been playing (passthrough) DTS-MA & Dolby-True HD material without any issues.

So the displayport adapter from eBay seems a success.

I can't comment on 24p or 1080p displays, as my TV is 720p only and doesn't do 24p.

My next step will be to backup the Windows stuff (activation key, restore disc etc) then install and run openelec from a USB stick.

I probably won't get round to this until next week.

I'll post the results later.

So far, for £85, an absolute bargain!

Mine is hidden behind the TV, so there's no issues with having adapters plugged in. I also have a hard-wired Cat5e connection which negates the lack of built-in wifi.

Once openelec is up and running I'll test out my Media Center remote.

Matt Devo · 2015-06-26, 05:35

(2015-06-26, 01:49)decpvr Wrote: My next step will be to backup the Windows stuff (activation key, restore disc etc) then install and run openelec from a USB stick.

no reason to do that if you're just going to install/run OpenELEC from USB, since the hard drive is not touched

decpvr · 2015-06-26, 07:53

(2015-06-26, 05:35)Matt Devo Wrote: no reason to do that if you're just going to install/run OpenELEC from USB, since the hard drive is not touched

It's just a precaution really. I've installed OpenELEC before on other devices, but it would be a shame to wipe out Windows by accident.

**fritsch** · 2015-06-26, 08:35

I bought such a device for my mum :-)

Let's see if it can skype, email and browse the internet ... I chose the 4gb version with the 1.7 ghz celeron.

sshaikh · 2015-06-26, 10:27

Sorry to nag, but could anyone comment on the max resolution of the Celerons? I'd be more interested in the ability to stream high/UHD resolutions (media, gaming and perhaps even desktops) rather than decode anything natively.

Basically I need to know if I should buy more than one Wink

sshaikh · 2015-06-26, 15:23

I think I have my answer (it's certainly stretched my googling skills - tip, use "2160p" instead of "4k"):

https://plus.googleapis.com/+ChipColandr...zk2Zw5qQNG

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1871151

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1841618

decpvr · (This post was last modified: 2015-06-26, 15:50 by decpvr.)

(2015-06-26, 15:23)sshaikh Wrote: I think I have my answer (it's certainly stretched my googling skills - tip, use "2160p" instead of "4k"):

https://plus.googleapis.com/+ChipColandr...zk2Zw5qQNG

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1871151

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1841618

The instruction manual (see post #45) states the displayport is v1.2, which I believe is capable of 4K@60Hz.

HOWEVER this does not mean the HP is capable of decoding/playing this content (as per your links above. I think this processor can only handle 4K@24p?

Also I think you would need a HDMI 2.0 adapter to do this, which IIRC are not yet available to buy?

EDIT: - I think noggin would be the best authority on this?

Matt Devo · 2015-06-26, 16:54

(2015-06-26, 15:47)decpvr Wrote: The instruction manual (see post #45) states the displayport is v1.2, which I believe is capable of 4K@60Hz.

HOWEVER this does not mean the HP is capable of decoding/playing this content (as per your links above. I think this processor can only handle 4K@24p?

Also I think you would need a HDMI 2.0 adapter to do this, which IIRC are not yet available to buy?

EDIT: - I think noggin would be the best authority on this?

Haswell can output 2160p60 via DisplayPort 1.2, but requires MST (multi-stream transport - effectively dual 1080p outputs). The Celeron's GPU won't be able to handle video playback at 2160p60 though.