[Sam.Nazarko]

As the owner of a Cubox-i2, your initial experience was (unfortunately) exactly what I was expecting. I was hoping that OSMC had been tuned a bit more to the i.MX6 hardware since it's been 3 months from initial order to delivery. Instead, it sounds like you're experiencing some of the same things I did with the i2 that eventually convinced me to move to an RPi2 (where I put 2 RPi2 systems together for about the same price as 1 Vero).

I don't need the 5.1 audio (yet anyway), so for me that isn't a difference-maker. I see on the OSMC forums that work is already under way to try and improve the IR response. That was one of the more annoying issues I experienced with my i2 as well. I'd also be interested to know what kind of range you're seeing with the IR remote. I was just using a standard MCE remote and it wasn't good/reliable more than 3 or 4 meters away from the receiver. The same remote works well across the room with the USB receiver on my RPi2.

Have a look at the deinterlacing thread at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=211289. I would be curious how this sample from there does on your Vero, http://solidrun.maltegrosse.de/~fritsch/1080i50_h264.ts. My i2 just could not keep up when deinterlacing was enabled and by the end of playback the video/audio sync was several seconds out of wack. From the developers posting in that thread with access to several different devices, the i4 does seem to do much better.

$199 is a very steep price for what it sounds like you've been delivered so far. The 3 years of support makes it better, but I've seen too many similar claims end up not being fulfilled when companies go under.

Just to weigh in here. $199 allows us to reliably deliver support and updates for years to come. Yes, I could have got this on to the market at a lower price, but a good part of the pricepoint covers support and development. There's no point shipping hardware if you can't support it with good software.

We won't be going under.