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You assume wrong.

So do you think the i3 nuc will be able to handle 4k? In what basis do think that?
Thanks

On the basis of reading the product specification: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/n...brief.html

Also does i3 handle x265 10 bit?
.. I don't want to buy something that will be obsolete in 3 years

Do you know of any chip that does Hardware Decoding of Hi10P? This format relies upon software decoding until the standard was published (only a couple of months ago). Now hardware manufacturers can build it into the hardware. Software decoding (up until now) means that it will be much more CPU intensive, and slow.

I'd hardly call something obsolete because it doesn't do "4K, h.265". There are plenty of alternatives that will still be in use in 3 years time including good old mpeg4, mpeg2, and h.264. You can have 4K encoded in h.264. You can have 1080p in h.265.

I am not so sure about i3 nuc handling 1080p in h.265. All 1080p h265 i have seen on internet have bad image. The exception is 007 skyfall in x265 1080p, that is in internet. I dont think i3 nuc can handle that without some ocasional freezes even if rare, or at least with cpu almost always at 100%. The thing is x265 still lacks several implementations...

3 years to me it's too short time to have a device. 5 years minimum...