Chromecast - the new Google TV
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You're assuming they'd bring HD down to SD price. They'd just eliminate the SD price and everyone would be paying extra.
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To add to this even further, can you even buy a SD TV anymore? I dont see them around anymore for sale. Fuck you can get a 40"-45" 1080p TV for like $300 these days.
The only places I see SD tvs anymore is in like cabins we rent out in the summer in northern Michigan.
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Almost every review I've seen about the nexus player was disappointed in it and said the Shield TV was vastly superior, but it's also 3x the price. It's also just an Android TV device, not the full version of android, so it just does video and whatever games that are Android TV compatible.
It sounded like you're looking for a HDMI stick that runs full android and has the play store on it, which I don't know squat about.
It sounded like you're looking for a HDMI stick that runs full android and has the play store on it, which I don't know squat about.
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New news for the the Chromecast and Nexus phones today. Shit sounds dope.
All the Important Nexus and Chromecast News Google Announced Today
All the Important Nexus and Chromecast News Google Announced Today
I love my Chromecast. Plex works great on them when I need to keep my daughter occupied with something while I'm busy and Sling works great as well to connect the programming on the TV to any other TV in the house wirelessly. Great for slinging a game to the back deck or sending porn to the master bed room.
I guess it depends on what you're looking to run. I don't know that any of them have access to the Play store. The Nexus Player has access to the store, and a subset of apps (most of what you might want, e.g. netflix, vlc, plex) and is a valid cast target.
The Shield TV has faster hardware, but if you're not playing games there isn't much use for it.
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Doesn't seem like there's much of a reason to upgrade from the first gen chromecasts which work fine. I guess the audio thing might be cool if you have a stand-alone stereo but you've always been able to do the same thing with a $30 bluetooth gizmo. My main stereo is my AV receiver so I already stream music through my chromecast. I sort of don't like the fact that Google Music streams the songs off the internet instead of directly from my phone though because I have capped internet at home. Probably not a problem for most people I suppose.
Has anyone else had the experience that streaming video to chromecast is kind of buggy from anything but YouTube? I have gone to using the "cast my screen" feature instead of the little chromecast button on other video sites because it seems to hang up so often. This could be something to do with my shitty internet as well though.
Has anyone else had the experience that streaming video to chromecast is kind of buggy from anything but YouTube? I have gone to using the "cast my screen" feature instead of the little chromecast button on other video sites because it seems to hang up so often. This could be something to do with my shitty internet as well though.
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I use my Chromecast to stream from Couchtuner exclusively. I like to let it buffer a few minutes before I watch an episode of whatever. Most (95%) of the time it works flawlessly. If it doesn't, it's usually shitty internet that can't keep up.