[Dropbear67]

Is it fair to say that openelec on this new nuc is still 'broken' in so far as getting proper display with hardware acceleration is concerned?

As broken as all hardware with Intel GPUs. There is a driver issue preventing proper colors on HD material when hardware decoding is used.

Another way to look at it is that Haswell is the only thing with proper 23.976Hz output and it has enough power for software decoding (except the i3 for 3D, not sure about i5). There should be no quality issues when set up properly.

I'm pretty sure hardware decoding is going to be fixed soon too. The driver is open source..

That's really disappointing..

if the driver is open sourced and should be fixed soon, why hasn't it been fixed with the previous gen nucs??

I can imagine running in software rending would make the thing run hotter and the fan constantly spin faster ?