I have an old android box, from 4 years ago, that started to give trouble, so I want to replace it with a new one. While looking around, I found these S96 Air machines, which apparently work just fine with CoreELEC. However, I have a couple of doubts. Is it worth it to go for the 4GB/32GB vs th…

Software support is still not mature in LE for the Pi4. To be frank LE is in a bit of a mess with anything but PC support and even that has its issues. The Pi4 is not a great design and is easily bettered as a media player by any S905x3 or S922 based AMLogic box. Spending about €120 on a N2 will giv…

2-4 years for media playing is very little. I had this cheap T95 something that I have had for 4 years and can play x265@4k. Anyway, 120 euros seems quite expensive. My target is half that. The N2 costs in USA (?) 58 euros, I don’t get why it is so expensive here. I can put a cooler on top of the …

[image] kwanbis: Anyway, 120 euros seems quite expensive. It´s not expensive, but i believe You don´t want to understand.

2-4 years is the time it takes for new formats to overtake old and make your shiny new hardware somewhat redundant. I fully expect my N2 to last at least twice that and do everything I need it to for its full life. Many people “need” the shiny new formats so I give it a conservative life. But hey d…

I have 3 different boxes. All were about 30 euros. Even my 3 years old s905x box still plays everything flawlessly, even 4k HDR. So I don’t see the need to pay 120 euro for a single device.

It takes much more than 2~4 years. Still not the point. I ask for advice, but it does not means that I have to accept all of it if I don’t agree with it. For 120 euros, you could buy an XBOX S Digital at the time, new, from Microsoft. You can get a Fire TV for 35 euros on sale, 50 normally, etc.,…

No one said the N2 was cheap, what everyone who has some experience of it and the cheap boxes says - its the best tool for the job of running CE. There is not a single team member of the Coreelec developers who would tell you anything different. Take that and do with it what you will.

I have 3 Odroid N2/N2+, 2 as daily drivers for CE and one is used exclusively for EmuELEC in their respective rooms. After years of monkeying around with “best value” media players/space heaters, I’ll never go back. Especially seeing as how the current “best value” players are essentially a crap sh…

Thanks, of course the more you spend the better it should be. But that doesn’t mean that I need to buy a ferrari to get a nice car. I have not had any problem with my cheapo T95. I paid 40 dollars at the time, and it is still working. I can try a Xiaomi Mi Box S from Amazon, and if it does not wo…

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