Xbmc lived in my system for about 2 months till I realised that it looks great, but can't even play a DVD without having frame rate issues ( jumpy playback) and I'm not paying 5k for a TV and watching that. Not sue what you mean by jumping, not had any issue like that myself, or heard of it. My onkyo 886 couldn't even come close to doing that! For gods sake - I've got it running 10 speakers all eq'd with house curves on the subs and different target curves for playing different media- even different crossovers for the subs when playing different media!. Or dynamic compression for action films for late viewing. can u use it as a hub to network your media to other devices? Can you use your iPhone as a remote for it or stream all media to your android in its max resolution? Or watch YouTube on it while it upscales to 1080p with the most powerful upscaling algorithm currently available? Can you set it to select the audio stream you prefer for the media type your listening or watching automatically- for instance, all lossless audio is left native, but any mp3 192k files are upscaled to 64 bit. No browser, or streaming, Internet tv, freeview or frees at etc.

Xbmc really can't do much, so I'm not sure where your getting that from.

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