[Apothis]

Do you do 1:1 rips of your own BDs? If so, I can give you several that demonstrate the problem and are 100% reproducible. The reality is that 95% or more of the folks here get their media in other ways than ripping it from discs they bought. You all know what I mean.

If we are getting out the "measuring stick" - I have a 16TB NAS in my basement which is 85% full of mostly 1:1 BD rips. I have purchased and ripped over 400 BDs... so while your experience is interesting it does not match my own. I have an i3 based HTPC with a GT430 running OE that plays all of these titles fine, it's just the FTV that has trouble... clearly for the torrent crowd this does not appear to be a concern, but some of us buy this stuff and don't want to transcode it just so it will play on one box.

Dont know about anyone else, but I'm certainly not trying to suggest that you arent seeing this problem, just saying that I havent. But then I keep most of my full bluray backups in ISO format.

However, comparing the performance of an i3, with a discrete GPU, and an optimised linux install, with this little box running a mobile phone operating system probably isnt a fair comparison.

For what its worth, I think the firetv is a great little box, which probably does more than we should expect for the cost. What I dont think it is, is suitable as the media source for a fully fledged home cinema setup, and to expect it to be is just asking too much. Although I wish it was