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Comparison Chart of Chromecast, Apple TV and Roku Content Options
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Nah, not impossible, just look like crap unless you have an extra power socket around.
Remember most TV's are USB TARGET devices, not USB HOST devices. Target devices CANNOT power the USB bus.
Nah, not impossible, just look like crap unless you have an extra power socket around.
Remember most TV's are USB TARGET devices, not USB HOST devices. Target devices CANNOT power the USB bus.
But how would you even fit it on the back of the tv? It's a couple of inches long, most tv's that hang on a wall don't have a couple of inches of space behind them. I see what they did, they tried to save you from having to buy an hdmi wire separately, but this won't work for a lot of people including myself.
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i'm sure most people are so cheap over $15 they won't see the value in buying a roku over a chrome stick
only value i can see in this is streaming a bootleg sports site to your TV if you're a cord cutter
Ah yeah, didn't think about that. I have seen many TV's with HDMI ports hidden but coming out toward the side. That is where it would fit. A little better design would be to have it a bit longer but include a 90 degree adjustable hinge. That way it would fit either on the side or on the back.
The Apple TV needs Air Video. Stream any video on your computer, or any drive connected to it, directly to your tv.
True if you are not too scared of a little tech you can run XBMC on a pi plus MAME and more.I've thought about getting one to play with,even though I have an Atv and Roku.
Unless they have updated the AirPlay drivers, I found It to be very unstable. The instability is not worth the cost savings.
Depends where your music is located. Chromecast only allows you to stream media from the internet. It will not allow you to stream from local stored media.
(I'm assuming you mean that you routed your speakers through your TV)
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Unless I'm missing what you are trying to say, that's exactly what Air Play does -- stream any video or music from your computer to your AppleTV connected TV.
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That would be nice... put some heat under Apple to open up ATV to devs and the App Store.
They have an MHL standard for HDMI that makes it a powered port, but still a bit new and not widely available yet.
These things are so design-flawed that you need more than one. Playing local media is a major problem with many of these devices, which want one to pay for evanescent streaming content instead of playing persistent local content. My [aging and vendor-abandoned] Boxee Box does an AFP/SMB/NFS mount of a media directory and will play anything there. Roku refuses to play divx-family AVI's and ATV won't do any local content.
It's been included in AppleTV from day 1, it's call AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring. The only catch is that your computer has to be a 2011 or later.
Exactly. If we could only go back in time and just redesign the original HDMI protocol
Any reason to pick up a Chromecast when I have 2 Atv3s connected to 2 TVs in the apartment already? Currently don't own any android devices either but I want to get an HTC One... Maybe.
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What if you play your local media through a chrome browser? I can drag an MP4 file into chrome and it will play in a tab I think.
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What if you play your local media through a chrome browser? I can drag an MP4 file into chrome and it will play in a tab I think.
According to Apple's website the only restrictions is a computer with iTunes 10.6.
1. My computer is older
2. You can only stream compatible formats. With Air Video I can stream any file format to my idevice and my computer will do the conversion on the fly. I have a lot of old content in non-compatible formats. AirPlay is mostly irrelevant to me.
This is spot on. My 13-year-old Pioneer Elite rear projection TV puts out a great picture (better than LCD or LED for movies, especially), but was built prior to HDMI's existence. Roku has component outputs, which are still HD. I can't connect any Apple TV unit to my TV, nor the Chromecast. I would have to either upgrade my receiver or my TV to use those.
So, for me the lack of content is just the topping on the cake. I really wish that there was a single way to get all the streamed content instead of a patchwork quilt that has a bunch of holes in it. My fallback is Airplay display mirroring, but again I can't do that to my best TV because that requires the Apple TV. :-( But at least it lets me watch Hulu (without the plus) along with other non-paid streaming sources.