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Primarily because of the price point, at less than $130 (barebone, no RAM, no drive) it was still quite an amazing price. The hardware: Intel NUC5CPYHДЄ few options came into consideration, including NVIDIA SHIELD TV and AsRockВ BEEBOX N3150, but I finally decided to go with Intel NUC NUC5CPYH. There isВ one extra requirement though: it needed to be in the sub $200 budget because I only wanted it asВ Plex client, not server. So the search was on to find aВ hardware that would be able to fill those gaps.

No HD Audio (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA) passthrough when using PHT on Windows.

No gigabit ethernet port, only 100 Mbps.

I had to useВ Flirc USB to control it from my Logitech Harmony remote.

Even though it hadВ built-in IR receiver, there was no Windows driver for it.

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Its Quad Core Intel Atom processor were chokingВ to handle 1080p H.265 encoded videos.

No hardware acceleratedВ for HEVC (H.265) video format.

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This means, I couldnвЂ™t install the next generation Plex Media Player which unfortunately requiredВ 64-bit MacOS or Windows. It could only be installed with 32-bit version of Windows (or any other ењ†4 based operating system) due to limited BIOS and drivers support.It had served its primary purpose well but I started to find some limitations from it:

AВ little backgroundДЇor over a year, I had been using Minix Neo Z64 running Plex Home Theater as client to browse and play media library from my Plex Media Server on my TV. They no longer support booting from (micro) SD card, as shared by one of the readers. UPDATE October 21, 2017: Intel has released a newer generation of NUC series (identifier: NUC7XXXXX). UPDATE November 30, 2016: Plex Media Player is now available for all Plex users

* Plex Media Player is currently only available for Plex Pass users. Plus the releaseВ of Plex Media Player* last year with Embedded Platform app. That perceptionВ have now changed with the HEVC hardware accelerated encoding support in the newer chipset generations. Plus you probably need to make some additional spending on Windows 8/10 for the operating system. Before modelsВ with Brasswell and Sky Lake chipsets however, I alwaysВ considered it as a big investment because you would need to grabВ one with i3, i5, or i7 processors to be sure it would be able to handle all media formats. The Intel NUC has been around for a while and considered as one of the bestВ kit to build an HTPC.

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