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Who uses one? What do you use? What do you suggest to use?

Now that I've sold the house and looking to buy a new one im planning to cut the cord and want to have a good setup ready to go for when I move in to a new house.

I've got an Apple TV already which works great but that just runs off the computer in the office for now. Looking to have a dedicated HTPC I can keep in the entertainment center and use a wireless keyboard and mouse when needed but also has the ability to use a remote with it

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Quad core android tv stick. ebay it. $60 or so, takes sd card and usb drives plus has internal storage, 720p hdmi output, runs netflix, hulu...pretty much anything you can run on android. Can also torrent movies which is nice for being freely entertained. Smaller than a pack of smokes. Not just a gateway for Amazon content. Not a restrictive apple device.

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I might have to look in to that. Biggest reason I want a PC is for torrents. That's what I use now and do it through the office computer and the Apple TV

Wanted some other input to see if there was other ways to get the job done

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Doesn't it suck that all the "good" torrent sites got wiped out the start of this year? Was so easy and so much quality content available. Have to dig much more nowadays for newer media, older stuff is still easy to get. Piratebay and demonoid arent as good as they used to be, kickass torrents is gone, fuckin government.

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Doesn't it suck that all the "good" torrent sites got wiped out the start of this year? Was so easy and so much quality content available. Have to dig much more nowadays for newer media, older stuff is still easy to get. Piratebay and demonoid arent as good as they used to be, kickass torrents is gone, fuckin government.

Last I checked katmirror was still up.

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Yeah kickasstorrents is still up along with katmirror. I use toerentz.eu, it's an aggregate search engine that will find what you want on multiple sites. Sometimes the host site wants to serve you pop ups and porn apps instead of the torrent file tho.

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Yeah kickasstorrents is still up along with katmirror. I use toerentz.eu, it's an aggregate search engine that will find what you want on multiple sites. Sometimes the host site wants to serve you pop ups and porn apps instead of the torrent file tho.

Ditto

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Another wrinkle of this is soon I want to get an Xbox one and then I can access the HTPC to stream stuff to my man cave TV as well

Simple dlna server like ps3 media server works fine for this purpose, too.

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