[mythtvnz] Intel X-26

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Chris Robertson
<chris at teamrobertson.co.nz>wrote:

>     I'm still waiting for the ideal media center hardware to emerge.
>>     Something under $200 I can just connect to my TV and network and
>>     bam, frontend done. Or add external storage and tuners to make it
>>     a fully functional PVR. The RaspPi is so close in many ways; great
>>     size, hw decoding, HDMI-CEC etc, but not enough grunt for fluid
>>     xbmc UI, and I suspect recording several HD channels at once would
>>     choke over USB2.0.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone seen or heard of these for Mythtv frontend?
>> Thinking here is an Android frontend?
>>
>>
> There certainly seems to be a ton of android smart-tv like devices
> available recently. The Pivos Xios <http://www.pivosgroup.com/**xios.html<http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html>>
> is the most interesting I've seen so far - it even has a (beta) version of
> XBMC available as an app or native linux firmware. It's something to keep
> an eye on, but is still in development so not ready for rolling out to
> non-technical family members yet.



Because Pivos has two XBMC devs employed there. But the XBMC setup runs
linux not android, or so I believe.

They are ready for the big time, possibly one of the better ARM boxes for
XBMC.
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