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Hello All,
Can some kind person point me in the direction of a player that boots straight into Kodi and that is fairly simple to use
as i'm looking for something for my 70 year old mother
Many thanks
Mart
P.s. Has to be available in the UK
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tavoc
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you can use an NUC and install Openelec.
That should be simple enough.
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Celeron will be enough for most people
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If you does not need much cpu power (e.g. heavy skins or upscaling SD Live TV Content) then the nuc 2820 should be ok.
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Rpi with openelec is pretty simple & will boot straight into kodi.
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I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi with OpenELEC (other distributions are available) as it's more or less guaranteed to work (with a decent 2A power supply etc.).
Try it out with the 70 year old. Just don't run a heavy skin or expect every add-on to work at lighting speed. I'm sure she'll be fine with the Pi performance (overclocking helps a lot), but in the unlikely event she finds it too slow then write off the £30 cost of the Pi and trade up to a £200 NUC.
If she can't get along with Kodi at all then you've lost only £30 - you might even be able to use the Pi for something/someone else.
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I picked up a HP Chromebox for $118 via Amazon warehouse deals.
It runs XBMC like a dream. With the addition of a FLIRC for IR I couldn't ask for anything better.
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(2014-11-20, 19:25)Vaevictus2 Wrote: honestly I wouldnt get her a raspberry pi.
price wise by the time you've factored in all wifi, sd card, case and power supply, (plus remote control if she doesnt have a CEC TV) you are spending more than a dual core box with twice the RAM and much better open elec performance.
I can really recommend this box: http://www.geekbuying.com/item/CMX-AML87...30173.html
flash one of the recent releases from: https://github.com/codesnake/OpenELEC.tv/releases
I own both the rpi, the CMX box and the less powerful mygica A11. My overclocked rpi ranks 3rd place. I honestly dont understand why people are buying raspberry pis specifically for XBMC
I don't understand why people think the R-Pi costs so much when every time I price accessories it is closer to $50 or less. The R-Pi is "slower", but in most cases this won't be significant. Since the R-Pi has far superior video quality to almost any other ARM box out there, including better upscaling and deinterlacing, I understand very much why people keep using them.
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(2014-11-20, 20:09)GoodOmens Wrote: I picked up a HP Chromebox for $118 via Amazon warehouse deals.
It runs XBMC like a dream. With the addition of a FLIRC for IR I couldn't ask for anything better.
With the sales going on right now, I think the Chromeboxes are the clear winner right now. I'm betting we'll see them even go as low as $100, but even at $118, that's an incredible deal.
For this holiday season, I think there's two main players right now: Amazon Fire TV stick ($40) and Chromebox (near $100).
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Chromebook sounds good,but ...no hdmi-cec-need pulse-eght hdmi-cec.No turn on by remote,im not sure about optical.My measy have all,optical, turn on by remote,turn off all -quality of picture is better than my wd tv live.I think something with with new amlogic s805 will be even better
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(2014-11-21, 12:52)armagani Wrote: Chromebook sounds good,but ...no hdmi-cec-need pulse-eght hdmi-cec.No turn on by remote,im not sure about optical.My measy have all,optical, turn on by remote,turn off all -quality of picture is better than my wd tv live.I think something with with new amlogic s805 will be even better
Then I would keep an eye on the CuBox-i. Real built-in CEC, runs great, can be had of under $100, and optical audio. I've got one to test with and so far I'm really impresses with it. It runs OpenELEC, but can also run Android.