Received my ATV 1220 with built in ATSC tuner yesterday. http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Genia...389359357.html. It is a dual core amlogic processor, with one gig of ram and 4 gig of memory. First impressions, very positive. Seems to be well made, except something like a loose piece of metal or plastic was rattling inside the box, which concerned me a little. Tried to open the box to find out what was causing the rattle, but could not get the cover off. Anyway, hooked it up to my TV, by going through hdmi splitter and through my A/V receiver. Connected my roof top antenna, to the device to receive OTA TV signals. The onboard ATSC tuner is very good, it received the same signals as my other dedicated TV tuners. The first thing that really impressed me, NO REBOOTS or lock ups. It is running 4.1.2 and is pre-rooted which is a blessing. It is only 720p and not 1080p but the video and audio is great. It has Dolby Digital passthrough out of the box, no jumping through hoops to get surround sound. I installed XBMC 13 beta1, and it works great. The video quality is much better than my other RK3188 devices.
As far as adding apps, the small of amount of 4 gig of memory, seems to be adequate for me. All my apps that I use were available to be downloaded from the play store. The only item that I miss, is the ability of syncing my "contacts" from my Google account. However, the calendar syncs very well. I now have this device and my TV01 (aka CS968) hooked up to the same tv, so in a few days, I will know which device will serve me the best.
I Know that sam321 has gotten TVheadend to install on the RK chips so XBMC can use it as a PVR , I will try to get it working on my ATV1220.
As far as adding apps, the small of amount of 4 gig of memory, seems to be adequate for me. All my apps that I use were available to be downloaded from the play store. The only item that I miss, is the ability of syncing my "contacts" from my Google account. However, the calendar syncs very well. I now have this device and my TV01 (aka CS968) hooked up to the same tv, so in a few days, I will know which device will serve me the best.
I Know that sam321 has gotten TVheadend to install on the RK chips so XBMC can use it as a PVR , I will try to get it working on my ATV1220.
just after i sent the message i realised that the usb ports in the tv box might have some relevance to a pointing device keyboard etc and connected up a wireless mouse which got me going - i will take your advice and get something like you recommended - my box shipped without any mouse or instructions and i had an hdmi to dvi convertor as i have an old tv so it took me a while to figure out where i needed to plug the audio in to get an audio as well as a video signal - it is all working now - thanks for your inspiration - i will not get any where near the tv to enkoy it as my kids will be monopolising it with netflix!
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