Just picked up a 50" Android TV by Hitachi. Chances are it's a clone of something, but it's pretty decent.
The main reason I got it was the crazy low price and the fact it had 4 HDMI.
Just wondered about OS updates as there is little or no info on the Hitachi website.
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I have to wonder if the cable for the incredible will work with my phone. Mytouch. I have seen one for video composite and one for hdmi. Maybe if it fits someone could handle the software if needed.
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The mytouch doesnt have the hardware for video out, its not the fact of finding a cable, its the fact that the phone doesnt support it.
I suppose they abondoned that in favor of DLNA (UPnP). Of course the finest hotels are only now putting in composite video jacks. DLNA is a LONG LONG way in the future for the main stream.
Still, I did sit on the couch and streamed from my Glacier (via 802.11g) to a PS3 COMPONENT out to a 52" LCD. The picture was shockingly good. Had the occasional glitch, but that was as likely as not the LAN.
How do you set things up to stream from the my4g to the ps3?
Great DLNA Device
Just for those interested:
I bought a WDTV Live a little while back for about $65 on sale. Its an awesome little box, especially with the latest firmware update. (They are always developing firmwares improvements with added features and there is a sizable community of people running hacked firmwares)
Anyways, it runs all of my video files in Full 1080p (all of them that I use, but not every one that exists) and actually has some support for DVD menus for my rips. It does YouTube, Pandora, Flickr, MediaFly, pulls from my Central Axis (NAS), and most importantly to MT4G users, it does DLNA.
I'm actually going to buy a "WDTV Live PLUS" box which does everything that this one does but also handles Netflix (now) and Blockbuster On Demand (soon).
Here's a TV-out cable for those who don't have/use DLNA.MT4G TV-out Cable
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Here's a TV-out cable for those who don't have/use DLNA.MT4G TV-out Cable
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Does anyone know if this does truly work
jjjackson56 said:
Does anyone know if this does truly work
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Honestly, I don't know. The cable is HTC branded OEM product and is sold for the G2, Incredible, N1, and others. Amazon sells the cable for $17 and you could surely return it to them no problem. You could call HTC and ask about compatibility.
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well i have a 52 inch flat screen tv,,with all sorts of connections on the back and side,,it also has a USB connection,,,,i hooked my phone right up to the tv,,and the tv actually see's my memory card,,,you can view your pics and videos < if the videos are formatted for the tv to see> and you can use the oem data cable that come with the phone.
Not trying to bring back from the dead, but have done much searching only to come up with mixed opinions. Does this phone have Video out capabilities via a component cable?
I have an HDX 8.9 which replaced a 7" HD recently. The only thing I missed was the HDMI output on the HD, as I used it to connect to hotel room TV's when traveling. I also used it frequently to connect to my home TV to watch amazon prime movies etc. I needed a way to replace this function on the HDX.
I have a Chromecast which works well with my android phone, but has very limited utility on the HDX (it won't display mirror, nor can you cast amazon prime videos with it) The Netgear PTV-3000 was what I figured I would have to go with, but the price and the setup issues reported caused me to look around for alternatives. I am happy to report I found a great solution.
The Tronsmart T-1000 is about the same price (less actually) that the Chromecast device and 1/2 the price of the Netgear. The install is straight forward, very similar to the steps used to get a Chromecast up and running. The manual that comes with the device is a bit confusing, but there is a great walkthrough at http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.php/2014/01/04/how-to-connect-kindle-fire-hdx-to-tronsmart-t1000/#.UtlNwbQo5Ea that made the setup simple on the HDX.
On my home wireless network there was no noticeable lag on games, and no lip sync issues on prime video, including 720p and 1080p content. I was very surprised how fast the device processed HD video. The latest update included compression on the wifi stream so that is probably the reason for the speed. I didn't see any video artifacts introduced due to the compression. Updates are OTA for both the application and the device firmware. This is a one click update within the EZ-Cast app. The vendor seems to update the app and firmware regularly, so this looks like it will have great support going forward.
I was able to bring the HDX about 30 feet away from the Tronsmart dongle before I started to see the video skip and stutter. This was through an interior wall as well, so line of sight distance is probably better than that.
The reviews on Amazon are fairly good, most issues seem to be related to particular devices with older versions of Android, or older versions of the firmware. You can read them here: http://amazon.com/Tronsmart-T1000-Mirror2TV-Wireless-Compatible/dp/B00H2D3N0M
I highly recommend you check out this device if you have an HDX and want to enable the display mirroring feature.
So my friend gave me a OneXL and a whole kit-out last year for my birthday (he refurbs them and no I won't give out his name) This also included the Medialink HD box, clip and HDMI cable.
At the time it was of no use to me cause I am a farmboy and all my TVs are old analog CRTs with just co-ax or RCA or S-video.
Well I am finally getting a TV with HDMI so I can put the thing to use. I understand it operates on the same principle as a Chromecast, and I have seen other threads mention you can project to it from Windows Media Player, so I was wondering, what all uses has everyone found for their Medialink boxes with or without your One X? How have you set yours up?
Greetings, I'm looking to build a very barebones 4K game streaming pc for my ShieldTV. Imagine a tucked away small to medium form factor computer, powerful enough to push [email protected] but without any other bells and whistles since it will only be used for streaming games to my Shield. I wanted to start a discussion and perhaps query for a parts list that the community thinks would be appropriate for the task.
StreamBox Considerations:
[email protected] Steam/GameStream capabilities
Nvidia GTX 1070/80
bare minimum processor/ram
bare minimum ITX motherboard (no special features)
simple case or even considering an open test-bench to build it into my media console (pic coming soon)
Thanks in advance, will certainly keep a build log here as I proceed
The minimum system requirements will depend on the games you want to play. I use this machine: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-c.../pip.hpe-proliant-ml10-v2-server.7796450.html as as a remote game server. It's a prebuilt server system that costs less than €200,-. I swapped the original Pentium that came with it for a Xeon E3-1231v2, (overkill for most stuff, doom ran fine with the original cpu). Added disks and 16GB of ECC memory. I also installed a GTX950 because of it's low power consumption (75W, the psu is 350W). This is plenty fast for 1080p gaming but won't do 4K of course.
Apart from the disks (the machine is also a NAS) it cost me about €600 which roughly translates to $100,- (the price difference between US and europe is really horrible). The good thing is that it works like a charm.
Things to be aware of:
- the motherboard needs a soundchip/card to stream sound at all, I just installed a virtual soundcard (VB-Audio virtual cable)
- you are required to connect a mouse to the pcif the system is running Windows 10 or remote mouse control won't work
- past versions of gamestream/steam wouldn't work after connecting to the system with an RDP session. Use VNC instead.
Will the Shield TV ever do 4k Gaming? I'm not aware of that being an feature of the Tegra X1. IIRC [email protected] was the max for Game Streaming.
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Ok so, perhaps thats how it was, but according to the new Release Notes apparently 4k Game Streaming will in fact be possible..
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Greetings, I'm looking to build a very barebones 4K game streaming pc for my ShieldTV. Imagine a tucked away small to medium form factor computer, powerful enough to push [email protected] but without any other bells and whistles since it will only be used for streaming games to my Shield. I wanted to start a discussion and perhaps query for a parts list that the community thinks would be appropriate for the task.
StreamBox Considerations:
[email protected] Steam/GameStream capabilities
Nvidia GTX 1070/80
bare minimum processor/ram
bare minimum ITX motherboard (no special features)
simple case or even considering an open test-bench to build it into my media console (pic coming soon)
Thanks in advance, will certainly keep a build log here as I proceed
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If you want 4K60 then even a 1080 will struggle with some games.
Take a look here for inspiration: http://www.techspot.com/review/1246-ludicrous-graphics-test/
If you lower graphics then 4K60 will work fine with a 1080.
CPU's don't matter as much these days, so a Haswell i5 (4570/4590) should be fine. Probably the K version so you can overclock it in the future if needed.
Steveborough said:
Greetings, I'm looking to build a very barebones 4K game streaming pc for my ShieldTV. Imagine a tucked away small to medium form factor computer, powerful enough to push [email protected] but without any other bells and whistles since it will only be used for streaming games to my Shield. I wanted to start a discussion and perhaps query for a parts list that the community thinks would be appropriate for the task.
StreamBox Considerations:
[email protected] Steam/GameStream capabilities
Nvidia GTX 1070/80
bare minimum processor/ram
bare minimum ITX motherboard (no special features)
simple case or even considering an open test-bench to build it into my media console (pic coming soon)
Thanks in advance, will certainly keep a build log here as I proceed
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You're going to need a ton of horsepower to push 4k @ 60fps, if you want anything in the graphics turned up. You'll probably need two of those cards and they are huge by the way. I'm not sure how small you will be able to get the case considering that. Normally you want a large case for air flow, but if you want it as compact as possible you will need to do water cooling, also amazing to keep the noise down. Try to find a case that is the exact same size as your MB (make it a compact MB) and then do custom water cooing with two gtx 1070s. No wifi or sound card, just use LAN (faster anyway) and no peripherals or speakers or anything. PSU takes up a lot of space too unfortunately, but at least you can get low profile ram lol.
I got it. Buy a 3500 dollar surface book lol
So after thinking about this for a few days, the plan is to build this into my TV media console as an open-air streaming rig. Here's some of the parts list in my head and a (poor quality) pic of my floating media console and 4K TV setup
mini-itx z270 motherboard
Kabylake i5 7600k
air cooler
GTX 1080
modular power supply
I plan to mount the motherboard w/ air-cooler upsidedown in the center cube of the console (imagine a cool looking heatsink suspended from the top of the center cube) and use a pci ribbon cable to put the GTX 1080 on display on the inside bottom. Will post diagrams next week, works kicking my *ss. It's rather hard to see but the console has doors on the 2 right-most squares; here's where I plan to hide a modular power supply (drilling a hole big enough for the mobo/gpu power cables) This should be amazing! Anyone think I can get Nvidia sponsorship, this would show off GameStream and the new ShieldTV (even though I have the Gen1) like nothing else I can imagine!
Looks awesome, keep posting
Btw, I did a mini-itx build to play and stream games on my TV.
Parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/rrHhP6
I have become somewhat disappointed with the sound quality of my sound system lately. I use Plex a lot to watch movies, and Netflix on the Fire TV . My sound system consists of an Onkyo receiver and 5 Energy Speakers, plus sub woofer (one of those a front speakers) , the sound system is 18 years old. My Fire TV is a 1st generation.
So I am thinking there my be a couple of weak links in the system.
Yesterday I was at Sams Club and browsing there sound bars and came across the Bose Soundtouch 300 Soundbar and Acousticmass "Module" $999 yes expensive. The way Sam's had it setup, it looked like it came with the bar, sub and 2 rear remote speakers. I sounded way awesome. I got home, did some research, come to find out that price of the just the bar and the sub and that the sub is not the Acoustimass 300 but a slightly smaller sub (probably less quality too) that Bose has included for the Sam's & Costco models.
I thinking its time for an upgrade, want good sounds, and top technology. Thoughts???
I would also replace the fire device. Amazon fire devices are a big disappointment.