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Your phone is fine until you want to pause the movie to answer the door, but it takes tens of seconds just to reconnect to the TV dongle.
Or when you want to pause said movie because you're getting a call, which prevents you from pausing the movie. Happens to me all the time while Chromecasting.
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The last time I checked, Netflix was capped at 720p on non-Android Linux machines, but it's been a while since I've actually checked. I think the sentiments and conclusions in this thread[1] reflect the state of streaming HD content from Netflix on Linux, still. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/c26pc0/netflix_1080...
I use a useragent changer to look like Edge and that seems to be all it takes to get the full-scale HD on Linux. Doesn't seem like Netflix go out of their way to disable it, though useragent sniffing is... Something you should never be doing.
Oh Google. So this is a reskin and rebrand of Android TV, launching for the first time on the new "Chromecast with Google TV". Not to be confused with a different Google TV from 10 years ago. It's unclear if they are sunsetting Android TV or supporting 2 branches of Android based TV interfaces. Side note, I have a TV with Android TV and it is chock-full-o-bugs. Only in the Google-verse.
But at 50$, it's a really decent price point for getting a smart tv + controller experience.
Milestones in Google branding: 2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O ( https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI ) 2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag ), a rebranding of Google TV 2017-02-28: Google introd…
Highly relevant comic (although it's quite outdated now) https://bonkersworld.net/naming-dartboard
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But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now
Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?
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> The 1080p60 bug can be fixed by cutting the plastic lid off the Chromecast and adding a fan. I can't tell if you are serious. I can imagine circumstances where this would work, but... they involve the chromecast having a temp sensor and software to lower the clock speed to prevent overheating, resulting in skipped frames, but at the same time somehow not be able to lower the bitrate of the video stream. Seems... mi…
There is an extra element here... All of what you said is true, but the actual issue is not with the video decoding, but with the thread that feeds data from the network to the video decoder. That thread has some long running stuff running on it, which causes the task to enquire data to the video decode hardware to be delayed. It used to work years ago, but as more and more software bloat has been added to run in thi…
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> The 1080p60 bug can be fixed by cutting the plastic lid off the Chromecast and adding a fan. I can't tell if you are serious. I can imagine circumstances where this would work, but... they involve the chromecast having a temp sensor and software to lower the clock speed to prevent overheating, resulting in skipped frames, but at the same time somehow not be able to lower the bitrate of the video stream. Seems... mi…
Pretty much every single processor made in the past decade, if not two, has a core temperature sensor along with overheating regulation. Even the Raspberry Pi.
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Not just lose money but was ridiculed. The Apple Watch and Airpods made Apple the laughing stock when they came out but fast forward a few years and the Apple Watch is the most successful smart watch out there and every other tech company is trying to mimic the success that the Airpods had down to getting rid of the headphone jack.
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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The ability to use streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO, etc etc etc? Besides, a lot of these streaming sticks are cheaper that an RPi. The question is why should you use a Pi over the streaming stick, not the other way around.
do you know that netflix, amazon prime video etc are viewable throug kodi? have a look at https://github.com/peak3d/inputstream.adaptive