{"id":227,"date":"2011-09-13T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2011-09-13T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:26:27","slug":"revue-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Revue Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I bought a Logitech Revue<\/a> when the price dropped from $299 to $99.<\/p>\n

Here are my thoughts on it after two weeks:<\/p>\n

Meh.<\/p>\n

We don’t really watch a lot of live television, so a box that is most useful when you’re watching live TV doesn’t have a lot of value to us. I have used XBMC<\/a> as my home media player since it’s inception back in 2003-ish. Originally I used original XBOX’s, but now I have a quad-core desktop running the package in the living room.<\/p>\n

XBMC basically does everything the Revue does except<\/em> allow me to watch live TV. Most things are done better with XBMC, like the Youtube link that really just opens the web page in Chrome.<\/p>\n

At $99 I’m not upset at the purchase. Eventually it’ll end up replacing the aging XBOX in the bedroom. At $299 I would’ve been upset.<\/p>\n

At the $99 price point it’s really competing with something like a Roku<\/a>. At $299, it’s competing with HTPCs like this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of this post, Google TV still doesn’t have the Android Market nor any easy way to install third party apps. I think when that happens (supposedly with the update to Honeycomb, which was supposed to happen in August of 2011. It’s now September) the device will be a lot more valuable. Until then, I’ll stick with my XBMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I bought a Logitech Revue when the price dropped from $299 to $99. Here are my thoughts on it after two weeks: Meh. We don’t really watch a lot of live television, so a box that is most useful when you’re watching live TV doesn’t have a lot of value to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}