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Talkiet:timmmay: I got a R Pi to use instead of my PS3 for playing video stored on a PC across a network. I find the image quality of the R Pi lower than the PS3, especially during busy action scenes. The CEC remote integration that used to work doesn't work any more either, no idea why or how to fix it. The menus are a bit slow too, even with everything stored on a remote MySQL server.
I quite like XBMC, but it's not super user friendly, you really need a keyboard to fully use it. I'd quite like to find decent hardware to replace the R Pi, but it seems there's nothing compact available for less than $1000 unless you want to hack an ATV or something.
Welcome to my square 1 :-)
The ATV2 is a superb solution if you can live with 720p output.
But yes, next step up for something solid, fluid and quick is a proper PC and that's either $3-400 cheap secondhand and ugly/noisy, or $800+ new. $1000+ for a really nice case and silent.
I ended up with a big machine in another room using a 10m HDMI cable. If you can make that work, I recommend it.
Cheers - N
Antec ISK 310-150 Mini-ITX case, comes with built-in 150W power supply.
Renwick: The are a small batch of XBMC Remotes designed for use with Windows 8 touch Screen tablets. Not all of them may yet be compatible for Frodo but I have recently configured 'XBMC Remote' on a Samsung 500t for working with my raspbmc RPi and works well with my Video library.
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