[zehner]

The hardware specs of the Nexus Player look promising, very decent for the price.
But if AndroidTV has all the disadvantages of other Android platforms, I don't t think the player is superior to a linux build on a Celeron NUC or an AM1.

A few interesting questions could be:
- Is it possible to sideload Kodi with or without rooting?
- Is hardware acceleration with libstagefright or mediacodec possible?
- Does the box have enough power to use HQ upscalers (lanczos3 or spline36 in its optimized versions) or at least playback 1080p@24, 1080p@50 or 4K content without framedrops?
- Does AndroidTV at last support automatic resolution and frame rate switching?
- Does the box support DD, DTS or even HD passthrough?
- Is it possible to install linux as a compromise? (Intel has released VA-API drivers for older versions of the PowerVR chip and still advances them http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...px=MTgxMjY )

Most of these questions could be answered "YES" for the NUC or the AM1 platform, but the Nexus Player has to prove for the time beeing, if it's on the same level