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sorry....what about the himedia player? q5/q10/m3 ..... ?
are good for kodi ,or are trouble ? .... for use also the addon and plugins i mean.....
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2015-06-27, 16:40
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-28, 01:43 by hawkeyez.)
Hi All
I'm looking for a IP TV streaming box for streaming some European content as well as whatever else is available.
I've noticed the Droid player which seems to have a nice GUI to XBMC
I also noticed the MAG254 player. Not sure if the GUI is as sexy, but this is what I'm trying to work out.
Which is easier to navigate, considering I'm setting it up for my in laws
Do they both use the same software to present the channels ?
Any other suggested IP streaming boxes?
Some links to references would be great.
I should have mentioned I'm in Australia.. not sure if it matters since we are streaming?
Thanks in advance.
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2015-07-01, 08:28
(This post was last modified: 2015-07-01, 08:30 by Topken.)
Its the Zotac bi320 that is recommended around here. And yes it is more open then a chromebox. The barebones model hangs around $110-$120 and the fully loaded one with windows 8.1 with bing and 2gb of ram and a 64gb msata runs between $180-$220 give or take the day. More storage on the ZBox and windows 8.1 for roughly the price that the chromeboxes started at is great. The Windows license itself is anohter at least $90+ another $50ish for the 64gb msata ssd. so yeah its a bargin to get the fully loaded zbox. I personally just spent some money on getting a used Thinkpad T420 which I have been using as a htpc when I am at home and a laptop on the go. so for me I don't really need another system for kodi since I can just run it on my laptop hooked up to a larger screen or just use the built in 14" one for watching.
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the make display port to hdmi cables/adapters you can buy so the fact that your x220 only has displayport isn't really a problem. Also a hub/dock is great for having mulitple things plugged in at once.
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**Idea for first post update**
The HDD spiel was pretty good, in addition to that, maybe a short blurb on bootable USB sticks in comparison to M.2 SSDs or 2.5" SSDs. Speed, longevity, size. useage, pro/cons, etc.
Another very massive deciding factor for me was the type of wireless, I couldn't use anything less than AC 5GHz 867Mbps wireless to stream full blu-ray rips to my NUC.
I would almost make a permanent note that if anyone intended to run Windows (maybe excluding Win 10 that is about to be released) that 4GB RAM is probably mandatory for smooth operation on any of the boxes mentioned.
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Why wouldn't you be getting audio over HDMI?
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Displayport handles Audio just fine if that is what you are thinking is wrong.