[zaphod24]

I have nothing against Sam personally, I definitely don't know him and had never heard of him until I saw something about OSMC and stumbled across the getvero.tv site. I also didn't know the back story and possible bad blood between Raspbmc and OpenELEC developers until reading through this thread.

I believe in being open and honest and fair. The getvero.tv site is mostly flashy marketing drivel meant for the non-technical target audience looking for a "works out of the box in 5 minutes" media player. As soon as I saw a picture of the Vero and thought it looked a lot like a white Cubox, I started looking into it. My experience with the Cubox-i2 wasn't horrible, but I discovered that the device had limitations and quirks. The more I looked into the Vero, the more it seemed very similar to my I2. Given the target non-technical audience, I didn't want someone buying a $199 device and being disappointed when it doesn't play their interlaced H264 live TV video source very well. Additionally, in the time since late last year when the first Vero orders were placed, the RPi 2 came out and became a viable alternative to the faster than an RPi1 i.MX6 based products like the Cubox.

I started asking Sam questions by PM. I was assured I didn't know what I was talking about and that the Vero wasn't an I2 and it wouldn't have the same issues, at least not with OSMC running on it. I asked for details of specifically what IS in the Vero and HOW it is different that the Cubox-I2, in part hoping to breath new life into my I2 with OSMC. Customers started receiving their Veros and posting reviews last week. I looked at the Vero install image and the device tree file looks like it is, just like the I2, an i.MX6 Dual Lite device.

I opened a thread in the OSMC forums asking Vero owners how some sample video files that the Kodi i.MX6 developers have been using to improve deinterlacing performance worked on their devices. Several owners responded and some saw the same issues with the video and audio getting of sync that I saw with my I2. Others said the playback was perfect. The thread was then locked and Vero owners were encouraged to use email to get assistance performance issues. A new update to OSMC was released and the Vero performance thread in the OSMC forums was unlocked.

All I've ever been interested is fairness and people getting what they think they're paying for. If OSMC is somehow able to work some magic and make the i.MX6 Dual Lite hardware play HD interlaced content, all is well. If that turns out to be impossible, I think there should be an asterisk added to the getvero.tv site next to "Vero will play almost anything you throw at it." that indicates some HD interlaced content (like live TV streams) may not work so well.