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Re: Google TV

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Post by ehsankia »

dougmwne wrote: post #433
ehsankia wrote: post #214

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But at 50$, it's a really decent price point for getting a smart tv + controller experience.

I go back and forth. It is a good price for a little computer you attach to your tv that can sideload apps and do a lot of the same audio/video things your phone can do. But then, the beauty of the original Chromecast was that it was a wireless external display for your phone, so you didn't need to manage apps and logins on yet another device, just hit the cast button to play music, video, pictures or games on your t…

I agree that for us the old one was perfect, but for less tech savvy people, using their phone to control the TV never worked. For my parents this is perfect.

Re: Google TV

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Post by philtar »

dependsontheq wrote: post #435
AznHisoka wrote: post #371

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Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?

No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.

1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for.

2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.

Re: Google TV

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Post by lern_too_spel »

dvtrn wrote: post #215
lern_too_spel wrote: post #180

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As far as I understand, a second generation Apple TV can't even play Youtube videos.

I thought that it didn't play certain resolution YouTube, as even the newer generations only just got 4k support for due to codec issues?

No, YouTube does not work at all on the second generation Apple TV since 2015.

Re: Google TV

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Post by londons_explore »

webmaven wrote: post #436
londons_explore wrote: post #420

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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…

So, in that scenario, how does the fan help?

Fan leads to the CPU throttling less, so the long-running events on the main thread run faster and delay the tasks that load data into the video decoder less.

Re: Google TV

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Post by londons_explore »

webmaven wrote: post #437
dannyw wrote: post #374

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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.

So the overheating regulation is part of the firmware, rather than whatever software is running?

Typically embedded linux systems use the linux CPU frequency scaler, which uses various inputs including CPU temperature to scale the CPU clock frequency.

Re: Google TV

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Post by bane »

adrianmonk wrote: post #67

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…

The real question I have is...did some googler get a promotion for shipping something when it was only one of these renames? Or is this how the marketing people "ship" things?

Re: Google TV

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Post by sneak »

daveevad wrote: post #197
sneak wrote: post #146

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I recently bought a half dozen large TVs, and I stream randomized playlist folders of non-television-programming video content to them from a server I keep in the garage. Some just 24/7 display live streams from YouTube of famous places. TVs are cool. Television is garbage.

> live streams from YouTube of famous places any chance you have a curated list of these you'd be willing to share? thank you

Email me.
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