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High-rolling (or just highly nerdy) home theater PC setups often have network-attached storage to hold the reams of video that invariably won’t fit on the PC itself. QNAP wonders why we don’t just cut to the chase — both of its TS-x69L and TS-x69 Pro entries in the Turbo NAS range support XBMC’s home theater software out of the gate, letting either NAS serve as the front-end as long as they’re hooked up through HDMI. They won’t be the most powerful when they’re powered by dual-core, 2.13GHz Atom chips; that might be forgiven when there’s space for as many as eight hard drives shareable across the entire home. The lineups start at $479 for empty two-bay editions and scale up to $1,099 for eight. Not cheap, we know, but they may be relative bargains for any movie-watchers looking to simplify the living room.

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XBMC for Android has just rolled out, which took several months of hard work to complete. This version of XBMC for Android ought to be fully functional on just about any Android-powered device out there without running into any issues, where it is jam packed with plenty of cool features which make XBMC far more than just a regular media center, but instead, will be positioned as a media platform that delivers the complete online streaming experience to an easy to navigate system on your Android mobile phone, tablet or set top box.

Needless to say, the XBMC for Android will come with its fair share of improvements, and although there is still no support for hardware accelerated video decoding on a majority of devices, this version has been customized to use an external video player so that it can deliver the full hardware accelerated video decoding that is required to enjoy XBMC fully, and who knows, the end user might actually consider it to be the primary entertainment tool at home? Well, are you going to give XBMC for Android a go or not?

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Now that PlayJam’s Kickstarter project, “GameStick,” is funded — reaching and crossing its $100K goal in around 30 hours with over 1,000 backers — the team’s turning to other news, like adding XBMC and DLNA support. That support will arrive via an “optional firmware update in September,” says PlayJam CMO Anthony Johnson. That other Android-based, Kickstarter-funded game console, the Ouya, also added XBMC functionality to the console’s feature list late last summer, though it’s unclear if GameStick’s support includes the Android app XBMC is porting to Ouya.

But just because the GameStick is funded doesn’t mean you can’t still pledge dough for one yourself. The $70 tier is sold out, but backing the project for $79 or more will still get you one of the first GameSticks on the market. The project is slated to launch this April.

Continue reading GameStick topples Kickstarter goal in 30 hours, adds XBMC and DLNA post-launch

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The second official beta of XBMC 12 “Frodo” is ready for testing, and if you’ve been waiting to move up from the nightlies you finally can — as long as it meets a few requirements, like supporting Neon processor code (most HTC and Samsung devices do). There’s a compatibility list of devices known to work, although there are known issues with Android 4.2 that won’t be addressed until Beta 3. Also improved in this version is support for the Xbox 360 controller, no matter what platform you’re using it on, along with some audio fixes and other tweaks. Hit the source link for the full list of updates or just go straight to the download page if your media device can’t wait.

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Development of the XBMC project has continued to roll along since Eden launched officially earlier this year, and now the first beta for v12 Frodo is live. Those who dive in will experience a slew of new features that have been trickling out in monthly builds recently, including support for HD audio formats like DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD, live TV and PVR access plus versions for Android and Raspberry Pi. There’s a long list of features to check out — and known issues, this is a beta after all — check out the official blog for all the details and to try it out yourself.

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XBMC 12 ‘Frodo’ Beta 1 appears, includes support for Android, Raspberry Pi, HD audio and more originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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