XBMC

XBMC is a piece of software,depending what you want from it,depend on what hardware you put it on :)
 
I am no expert but have used it. I used to run it on a Xbox but not for a long time now. It was fast enough and worked well but noise and eats power. I tried running it on a few phones and tablets over the years but nothing I was overly happy with. For some time I ran it on my laptop plugged in to my TV, that worked rather well. I know a few people running it on cheap Chinese android box off ebay but they don't sound all that reliable and the ones I have seen are not exactly quick though no idea what spec they where. I have seen it running on a Apple TV box as well. It looked to work ok but apparently its a bit of a pain to sort and there rather expensive for what they are.
 
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I got mine off Amazon, raspberry pi kit. Saved a few bob now that I've reduced my to package.
 
As Simon mentioned, XBMC is just the software, you can run it on many devices and operating systems - Windows/Linux/Android/MAC etc.

I run it on a Windows7 (my wife would not be able to use linux very well for youtube etc) small pc behind the TV (an intel NUC with HDMI and silent) and it works very well. All the media, often full 1080 hd is streamed from a NAS box on the network. I control it via an app on my phone. I did used to run it on a Raspberry PI but found the PI struggled to buffer if you tried to fast forward or back a film.

If your confident and going to set something up just for XBMC I'd advise something with Linux installed, send Andy (arad85 on here) a message, he'll advise on a linux setup as I think it's what he has.
 
If you're talking about an Android TV box running XBMC, so you can stream movies etc for free, then yep, Ive just bought one from Amazon, good bit of kit.

Phil
 
I have one too, android m8 box, get one that is quad core and 8gig memory, also if you want it to stream faster hard wire it to your router, if you buy one off eBay make sure its fully loaded, also add phoenix and genesis, they seem to be best at the moment for streams. The remotes are a bit crap you can buy better ones for about 15 quid
 
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I use a htpc (main) and a PI (kitchen) for my XBMC. The PI is a slower to navigate menus and what not but plays fine. Friend recently got the the Amazon TV box and uses that for Kodi (new name for XBMC), he raves about the speed and quality of it. Comparable to a full blown PC and he's been able to side load apps on to it, he couldn't be happier for the price.
 
I have it installed on my small acer revolution, works well and is quiet.
 
Tried it on a Raspberry Pi, too slow and unresponsive for my liking. A micro PC using Windows XBMC/media player had the same issues. Ended up using Win7 tin with my old PCs guts (i7/SSD/decent graphics card can't remember the model an ATI 9 something) and simply use large fonts/Icons in Windows Explorer/FireFox which is both quicker and easier to user tbh given the logical file structure on the NAS where the media resides.
 
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