I'm laughing at your comment because Paramount+ (with Showtime) sold the rights to Homeland and just pulled it from their streaming service without any warning. My wife and I were in the middle of season 4 of 9 when they pulled it. So I wrote on the QQ Streaming and Content thread that, "All of these streaming companies and the people who operate them can go to hell."Another case where business put intellectual property and greed over compatibility.
There is a special place in hades for people who do this. Everything they try to do is incompatible.
I do intend to run LibreElec on the NUC8. It's just that this particular open box NUC has Win 10 on it already. Thanks for your help!An Intel NUC 8 BEK or BEH is fine for Kodi. It’s just needs the HDMI firmware updated for latest AVRs with HDMI 2.1. This will do all audio formats you need for music you see here on QQ and video up 4K with HDR (no Dolby Vision).
I still have 3 x Intel 8 i3 NUCs here (one I recently loaned to a friend). I use LibreElec (Linux with Kodi included) not Windows. Someone here in AU was selling 45 of them (second hand memory and SSD but no Win) for under $200 ea.
EDIT: I would recommend LibreElec over Windows as it boots much faster and is not constantly running windows services in the background and installing windows updates etc. If all you plan to do is use the NUC as Player then I can provide you with a smallish backup file to install LE and have it mostly configured ready to go.
If you don’t have the HDMI firmware update let me know.
I also have an Intel NUC11 Pro TNK and a NUC12 Pro WSH but there is no difference in performance playing music or video but both have 2.5GBE Ethernet vs 1GBE on NUC 8 models but you need a 2.5GBE network to see the speed increase for file transfer. NUC 12 and NUC 13 have a video sync bug so don’t go there yet (only at 24Hz which is not that common), although there is a workaround (code hack).
Thanks, @steelydave. I've not heard of this box, but I will definitely take a look at it and your thread.If you're really set on a NUC because you want to use it for things beyond Kodi, then @HomerJAU 's dual-boot suggestion is excellent. If you just/only want a device for Kodi, consider getting an Android box and installing CoreElec on it. Personally I have a UGoos AM6b+ (for which I professed my undying love in a thread here) that's made my 7th gen NUC all but obsolete for media playback - the interface is quicker and more responsive and video playback is smoother and better looking (and it supports Dolby Vision which no PC does), not to mention a box like this is about 1/4 the price of a brand new NUC + RAM + SSD/HDD etc. I wish this thing existed 5 years ago because it would've saved me a lot of fiddling with Windows firmware and driver updates and configuration.
I now have the NUC8 discussed above. The BIOS Version/Date on it is BECFL357.86A.0085.2020.1007.1917, 10/7/2020. I believe there are later versions available. Should I update it?An Intel NUC 8 BEK or BEH is fine for Kodi. It’s just needs the HDMI firmware updated for latest AVRs with HDMI 2.1. This will do all audio formats you need for music you see here on QQ and video up 4K with HDR (no Dolby Vision).
I still have 3 x Intel 8 i3 NUCs here (one I recently loaned to a friend). I use LibreElec (Linux with Kodi included) not Windows. Someone here in AU was selling 45 of them (second hand memory and SSD but no Win) for under $200 ea.
EDIT: I would recommend LibreElec over Windows as it boots much faster and is not constantly running windows services in the background and installing windows updates etc. If all you plan to do is use the NUC as Player then I can provide you with a smallish backup file to install LE and have it mostly configured ready to go.
If you don’t have the HDMI firmware update let me know.
I also have an Intel NUC11 Pro TNK and a NUC12 Pro WSH but there is no difference in performance playing music or video but both have 2.5GBE Ethernet vs 1GBE on NUC 8 models but you need a 2.5GBE network to see the speed increase for file transfer. NUC 12 and NUC 13 have a video sync bug so don’t go there yet (only at 24Hz which is not that common), although there is a workaround (code hack).
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