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Barebone Xbox 360 for XBMC?
DrumAnBass:
Originally I started with XBMC running on modded Xbox1's but they don't have the horsepower to deal with HD content very well. So I upgraded to the modern version of XBMC running on PCs.
I run XMBC on cheap PCs on every TV in my house... Can't remember the exact specs for them, but they were each built really inexpensively from eBay'd or BlackFriday components, using TinyXP as the OS. You can use a cheap USB IR receiver/remote combo. Much better UI experience than VLC. I am a Mac guy but can build a decent PC for XBMC for half the price of a Mac-Mini.
XBMC will pretty much play anything you throw at it. I have each machine set to access several NAS drives connected to my router. Love the way it automatically downloads artwork for media. Cut my cable, so just rely on an antenna and XBMC for our TV watching.
I set my parents up with a WDTV unit; it generally works fine; sometimes comes across a codec it doesn't like... Not very flexible.
You might want to browse the XBMC forums at http://forum.xbmc.org/ for some hardware suggestions.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on November 24, 2012, 09:26:52 pm ---so you just play whatever from a usb flash drive/hdd hooked up to wdtv?
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WDTV is fully networked. Integrated wifi and some models have ethernet ports. I use the hard wired model.
It has third party services, too, like everything else. Netflix, Hulu Plus, a bunch of others I haven't tried.
Donkey_Kong:
Thanks all. Turns out there are quite a few options out there.
Amazon Search
Liking the looks of the TV's that have $treaming built into them :lol
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