OpenELEC is a Linux-based operating system designed to basically run one app: the Kodi media center. You can install OpenELEC on a PC to turn your computer into a multimedia device with a full-screen user interface for watching movies, streaming online video, listening to music, and performing other tasks.
Now the folks behind OpeneELEC have teamed up with hardware maker WeTek to launch the OpenELEC Box. It’s a limited-edition TV box that comes with OpenELEC pre-installed (plus it has the OpenELEC logo on the box).
Now you can order one from the OpenELEC webshop for $110.46 or €99 and and select one of three versions: WeTek OpenELEC Box with DVB-S2 tuner, WeTek OpenELEC Box with DVB-C/T/T2 tuner and WeTek OpenELEC Box with ATSC tuner.
Wetek OpenELEC Box hardware specifications (the same hardware as the WeTek Play):
- Processor (CPU): AMLogic AML-8726 MX (1.5 GHz Dual Core)
- GPU: Mali MP400 (Dual Core)
- Operating System: OpenELEC preinstalled
- RAM Memory: 1GB DDR III
- Flash memory: 4GB NAND
- Plug & Play tuners: DVB-S2 (satellite), DVB-T/T2/C (cable/terrestrial), ATSC (over-the-air)
- Wireless LAN: 802.11 B/G/N
- Bluetooth: 4.0
- Ethernet: 10/100 Mbit
- Supported Wi-Fi: 2.4 Ghz
- MicroSD: 1x
- USB 2.0: 4x (3 external, 1 internal)
- SPDIF: 1x
- Serial Debug: Yes, external
- A/V Output: 1x
- HDMI: 1x
- Power socket: DC In
- LED: 3x (power, LAN, WiFi)
- IR: Yes
- RF: With motion RCU
You can connect the WeTek OpenELEC Box to any TV to stream online video, play media from a connected hard drive or shared network drive, or run third-party Kodi plugins. If you want to receive digital TV channels, you can adapt DVB modular tuners. Record, schedule or play a channel will be easy with this system. Depending your location and sign type (satellite, cable, terrestrial) you may opt for different tuners (DVB-S2, DVB-C/T/T2 and ATSC).
The last released OpenELEC system version is an OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 2.
Source: Liliputing
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