On: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

[elcomet]

Wouldn't it be less expensive and simpler to buy a few real servers ?

[RubberShoes → elcomet]

Not at all. $35 for a pi and $200 for HDMI>SDI converter is significantly cheaper than any media server with that many broadcast outputs.

For IPTV - each TV needs a decoder. Hard to beat $35 per set. Plus running our own stack means we can tune for latency unlike an app on Roku/ATV