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It amazes me to no end the amount of liberties the press takes in making headline statements like 'rivals Raspberry Pi in Size' when in fact, it is 2X the size... Idiots.
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Something tells me the Intel ones will be a hell of a lot more pricy than the pi.
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I think this would rival more of the apple tv then it would the raspberry. As long as intel can keep it somewhat cheaper the building a htpc, I'm all over it. At $200ish, with the ability to run windows with 16gb (hoping) of memory and XBMC, I would drop the atv in a heart beat.
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2012-05-18, 15:01
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-18, 16:15 by krish_2k4.)
how much will this cost? if it is under £50 then im in!
I'm hoping raspberrypi xbmc can play 1080p mkv and the iplayer/youtube/vevo addons.
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2012-05-19, 03:03
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-19, 03:04 by Death-Axe.)
Would need to support the newer video formats like h265 for hardware decoding. Of course some groups like to be a pain in the arse and make us all buy new hardware because they have decided to switch to a new format no one can play on their hardware.
They will jump from 10 bit onto 265 in no time, and my asrock 330 has no chance at all in playing those and I can't afford a new system.
So if intel can include support for these formats later on, on a low priced system... Might even be nice if they give us some decent htpc systems with HW that can handle stuff even without graphics acceleration.... don't really want a game setup just for playing movies and have a huge useless tower.. *grumble* *moan* etc.
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you can forget just about any hw decoding of 10-bit h264, nvidia has already come out and said that they will not be adding it. If nvidia will not add it, no one else will even think about it. It's just not a main stream video format no matter what those 'groups' think.
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Some of the better CPUs can handle 10bit fine, it's just a shame that systems in the HTPC market are all seriously low end. It's about time companies started taking the HTPC market seriously.
It might be full of pirates: but it doesn't stop sony and apple making millions on mp3 players.
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