Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing?
thanks for your report.
but can you watch dvb-s2 h264 channels with some usb dvb-card ?
Goga