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Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by rsync »

zo1 wrote: post #47
blueskin_ wrote: post #32

Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?

Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?

Why ? Because any general purpose computing device should be suspect, that's why.

Instead of a dumb monitor, purpose built for being a display, this is a general purpose computer with:

"On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM"

... that's a lot of complexity and capability. Too much to blindly trust.

In fact, the only correct answer to the question "what does it do on wireshark" is: "nothing, since it's not capable of a network connection".

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by Pxtl »

royjacobs wrote: post #33

Xiaomi is a really interesting company. This TV announcement is just one in a long line of recent products that promise high quality devices for low prices (recently announced Mi Pad, Wi-Fi Router, etc). I own a Xiaomi MI2s phone which cost me about 200 euros to get shipped from a Chinese webshop and it's been working perfectly. They even update their phone OS (MIUI, based on Android) with weekly builds that are inst…

So their wares are actually solid?

I've been looking at Android-based TV boxen and I've been disappointed - there are very few players beating the Apple TV in that space. All the devices are either miserable (buggy, poor wifi, underpowered) or cost more than Apple's deviec. If you can't beat Apple on price and you're a Chinese no-name company, you're in the wrong business.

So far the only company that seems to be taking that market seriously is Amazon, and Amazon's android fork is far-enough-away from stock Android that it doesn't really count.

I keep hoping somebody would get some momentum and take a solid toe-hold.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by dublinben »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #64
Bud wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.

How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

Presumably using a tiling window manager would solve that problem entirely. The window management in Windows/OS X is positively archaic compared to what you can get in Linux these days.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by dublinben »

wmf wrote: post #82
vishaldpatel wrote: post #79

I wonder how America's Apple will respond to this.

They won't because they don't make TVs and they don't respond to competition.

I don't know. The hideous mock-up of a 4.7 inch iPhone 6 that's been floating around certainly looks like a transparent response to the trend of larger Android phones.

Apple themselves admit that growth is coming from phones they can't compete with[0]. Their $600+ phones with 4 inch screens have been surpassed in both resolution and price.

[0]http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/06/why-apple-has-to-make-bigger-s...

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by wernercd »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #64
Bud wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.

How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

http://winsplit-revolution.com/ is a good option.

Haven't tried others because this has been simple to setup and has easy shortcuts that use cntrl+alt+keypad to move window into various spots.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by math0ne »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #64
Bud wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.

How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

I like divvy: https://mizage.com/divvy/
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