Pick the Right Kodi Box (UPDATED FEB 2015)
(2015-04-29, 14:25)wrxtasy Wrote:
(2015-04-29, 12:32)WantWorldTV Wrote: So, I'm quite lost, I've been googling and youtubing for days about this. Fire TV looks the easiest one of the three, but I'm worried about the "Do not get a FireTV if you care about LiveTv". If I could buy a Chromebox that had already Kodi preinstalled I'd totally buy it!

Yes thats correct, do not get a Amazon Fire TV if you want to watch acceptable 50Hz Live TV. You are in Europe with very likely 25i/50i interlaced Live TV broadcasts that will not deinterlace properly with hardware acceleration enabled. Want proof...

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=222434

If you also care about perfect 23.976fps (24p) movies do not get a AFTV as it does not support dynamic refresh rate switching either.
A Chromebox or a RPi2 for Kodi + DVB-T Live TV viewing in Europe/Oz/NZ will give you superior results.

Have a good look at the Wetek Play if you want an out of the box solution. This will also give you the option of OpenElec / Kodi + Live TV + Android for Netflix etc. Wetek are in Europe and will provide good support for Kodi and the Wetek Play.

https://wetek.com/
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=213747

Other options are AMlogic S805 SoC devices can run 50Hz Live TV and deinterlacing very well, even when using Kodi / Android. These support dynamic refresh rate switching. But have other limitations such as no perfect 24p.

Isengard has pretty decent deinterlacing on the fire TV - hardware accelerated bob deinterlacing.

It works pretty well with interlaced content, but not as good as the RPi2 and wetek play (I have both too), but if you want decent Netflix, prime and live TV the fire TV is now a half decent solution.


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2nd build - by flymods - 2011-04-19, 23:04
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unraid - by flymods - 2011-05-08, 23:08
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Unraid Plus License - by maddog808 - 2011-05-09, 07:21
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NAS recommendations - by dopethrone - 2011-05-14, 04:04
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Latest Dell Zino HD PC's - by puulima - 2011-06-12, 05:05
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64 vs 32 bit version of Windows? - by puulima - 2011-06-12, 16:43
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Poofy, please advise: - by nchall - 2011-07-20, 19:20
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Please advise - by Peter42 - 2011-09-12, 20:39
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But is it enough for real 3D? - by Peter42 - 2011-09-12, 21:48
But can it do full 1080p 3D? - by Peter42 - 2011-09-12, 22:06
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Dedicated backup option W/unRAID - by CpTHOOK - 2011-10-10, 04:32
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