I'm just wondering is anybody has been compiling a list of all hardware for which there are actual user reports.
To be clear, I'm not talking about what is or isn't officially supported. I'm talking about what people have actually tried and found to either work or not work.
It appears to me that there are quite a lot of user reports in these XBMC hardware fora, and I'm just thinking that it would be Nice if all of that information was compiled into a big table or something... you know.. so that folks new to XBMC and/or those looking to acquire new hardware could just look up the bit of hardware they are considering and see what other folks' experiences have been with that.
I'm thinking that it might even be possible to get people to cooperate in submitting evaluation reports where they would test their hardware with some very specific test files, you know, so that the table could contain very objective test results, rather than the kind of subjective results that I seem to see in a lot of places... you know.. like when people say that hardware "X" will or won't playback 1080p but then they fail to qualify that statement any further.
P.S. Yes, I am aware that as of today, there are about eight gazillion different kinds of hardware out there on which XBMC could run... either theoretically or actually. What I'm asking about and/or suggesting isn't a massive project to test the entire universe of such hardware but only to compile data that is, for the most part, already being contributed from/by XBMC users about what works and what doesn't, and to make that available in an easy-to-search/navigate format.
To be clear, I'm not talking about what is or isn't officially supported. I'm talking about what people have actually tried and found to either work or not work.
It appears to me that there are quite a lot of user reports in these XBMC hardware fora, and I'm just thinking that it would be Nice if all of that information was compiled into a big table or something... you know.. so that folks new to XBMC and/or those looking to acquire new hardware could just look up the bit of hardware they are considering and see what other folks' experiences have been with that.
I'm thinking that it might even be possible to get people to cooperate in submitting evaluation reports where they would test their hardware with some very specific test files, you know, so that the table could contain very objective test results, rather than the kind of subjective results that I seem to see in a lot of places... you know.. like when people say that hardware "X" will or won't playback 1080p but then they fail to qualify that statement any further.
P.S. Yes, I am aware that as of today, there are about eight gazillion different kinds of hardware out there on which XBMC could run... either theoretically or actually. What I'm asking about and/or suggesting isn't a massive project to test the entire universe of such hardware but only to compile data that is, for the most part, already being contributed from/by XBMC users about what works and what doesn't, and to make that available in an easy-to-search/navigate format.