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Originally Posted by nightheart View Post
Can you stream videos with pi? I'd think it would choke on any site still using flash? I'd recommend a chromebox for something like TV streaming. 179 dollars with flash and html 5 support built into chrome. Built in wifi, 8 second boot times, no viruses or malware. Anyway my 2 cents.
Quad Core at 900 MHZ with a gig of RAM.

Better than a lot of tablets and smartphones that don't choke on that content.

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I got the Apple tv for 100 bucks. It has Hulu and everything. If you jail break it you can connect it to a NAS library. There are tons of options to get you where you want to go. The pi would be a great way too. Is there a remote control that you can interface with the pi?
PI's do have a GPIO where you can wire an IR receiver direct.

I run mine off mini WIFI keyboards.

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