What's the pros and cons between both of them from someone who has actual experience with them both?
oscarthegrouch said:
What's the pros and cons between both of them from someone who has actual experience with them both?
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The Wireless Dongle is good if you have movies converted on your phone already. It's also somewhat good for you tube videos. However if you try and stream a movie from a streaming application such as Netflix, HBO GO, or MAX GO you might see some lip-syncing. IF you use the MHL adapter everything runs and syncs smoothly for streaming. I watched the entire Game of Thrones seasons and True Blood on the MHL adapter.
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I bought an HDMI cable today so I can put Netflix onto my TV. I have an older HDTV, from 2004. It's a Panasonic model number pt-47x54j. When I plug my tablet into it, the little Android dude pops up onto the TV and and says 720p? I checked the owners manual and it says that the TV is only capable of 1080i, or 480p and 480i. I plugged my tablet into a more modern HDTV and it works just fine. Crystal Clear. Is there any way that I can get my a500 to work on my Panasonic TV? Attached is a screenshot of my TV's owner's manual on the page where it talks about HDMI inputs. Thanks in advance...
From the best of my knowledge you can't change this.Athens beat solution I could offer is Logitech Google TV.it rocks.and 70.00 amazon.
It can't be changed without hacking the drivers -- and even then micro HDMI is only capable of 720p output. All you can do is use a different TV or an adaptor (probably cheapest, but may lower video quality).
erica_renee said:
From the best of my knowledge you can't change this.Athens beat solution I could offer is Logitech Google TV.it rocks.and 70.00 amazon.
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haag498 said:
It can't be changed without hacking the drivers -- and even then micro HDMI is only capable of 720p output. All you can do is use a different TV or an adaptor (probably cheapest, but may lower video quality).
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Thanks. At this point, I'm just using my tablet to watch the movies on. That's good enough for me. Once my TVs start breaking and/or if I get this dream job that I'm currently chasing after, I'm going to get a more modern TV and all of my HDMI cable worries will go away. I put the Netflix App on my phone too. My 3 year old freaking loves it!! He is always asking for my phone to watch cartoons on. It's hilarious. haha
Of course, I'm still going to try to figure this crap out with my current TV. That's the fun part.
haag498 said:
It can't be changed without hacking the drivers -- and even then micro HDMI is only capable of 720p output. All you can do is use a different TV or an adaptor (probably cheapest, but may lower video quality).
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micro HDMI itself is capable of 1080p, but the tablet will only output 1080p if there's a 1080p stream (such as a 1080p movie). Netflix will not do 1080p, though.
Somebody saw this: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-gamestream-a-whole-new-way-to-game
Looks incredible. Console mode allows to put shield next to the TV and let stream from the PC - in 1080p with 60FPS.
God, that is so freaking awesome. Best buy ever. :victory:
sadly that's nothing you can't do with a long HDMI cable and steam big picture
at least is nice they are removing the beta of the streaming
Speedy Gonzalez said:
sadly that's nothing you can't do with a long HDMI cable and steam big picture
at least is nice they are removing the beta of the streaming
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Currently HDMI output only works at 720p at 30 fps AFAIK. This states 1080p at 60 fps with the update, that's something I've been looking forward to.
This, with a wireless xbox 360 controller.... I won't have to lug my tower across the house anymore when I want to game on the couch, or deal with low res and a long HDMI cable.
Polymira said:
Currently HDMI output only works at 720p at 30 fps AFAIK. This states 1080p at 60 fps with the update, that's something I've been looking forward to.
This, with a wireless xbox 360 controller.... I won't have to lug my tower across the house anymore when I want to game on the couch, or deal with low res and a long HDMI cable.
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Awesome update. They mention official support of the bluetooth niko gamepad and also playing with the lid closed. If the support is open for other gamepads (it should be) this is big news for future of the shield as a serious console, handheld or TV connected.
I'm really happy to own this little toy. Long life to the shield!
And the console mode give us real 1080p output outside of movie playback. So we can play all Android games in 1080p or use Shield as small PC with 1080p output.
Damn, the future for this kind of devices looks very bright now.
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Awesome update. They mention official support of the bluetooth niko gamepad and also playing with the lid closed. If the support is open for other gamepads (it should be) this is big news for future of the shield as a serious console, handheld or TV connected.
I'm really happy to own this little toy. Long life to the shield!
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Yes, many other game controllers work as well (They must support standard Bluetooth HID if they're bluetooth).
This is great news as I already have a moga pro, looks like I will be playing a lot of my PC games in the living room....wife's going to hate me haha.
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Yes, many other game controllers work as well (They must support standard Bluetooth HID if they're bluetooth).
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Awesome, was the D-PAD buttons issue during PC Streaming resolved?
And what about PS3 and XBOX controller? Android has native support of both when connected with usb cable. But both have the D-PAD issue.
The PS3 controller can be used as HID bluetooth but root is needed with the sixaxis control app.
Thanks for telling us.
Hi everyone. One of the biggest things I use XBMC for is accessing my MLB TV premium subscription in HD on the TV as I don't have an xbox or other system to support it.
I know with an Apple TV that the resolution is perfect HD out to the TV. Is this the same for OUYA?
When I plug my S4 into the MHL cable, it's a decent picture, but certainly a much lower resolution than the XBMC feeds.
Does anyone have any feedback about the screen resolution using OUYA and at bat application.
Certainly I know I can continue to use XBMC and MLB on ouya, but I really love the native crash free setup.
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Josh
The two Player deal breakers for me are (1) no gigabit wired support and more importantly (2) no Amazon Instant Video support. Is it true that there will be no simple way to watch Amazon Instant Video on the Player? If true, the Fire TV is the overwhelming winner.
If it runs android, Amazon has a new instant video app, which should be able to be sideloaded.
What do you need gigabit wired ethernet for? What are you watching that takes more than 100Mbps?
Oh, thanks for giving me a better understanding between these! At the moment I have google chrome cast xD
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What do you need gigabit wired ethernet for? What are you watching that takes more than 100Mbps?
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For my NAS drive that provides all my DLNA needs, I've got some beefy files on there with very high bitrates. That said, they play plenty smooth over my Wireless AC or N network. The problem I run into is FF and RW. The rebuffering's a little ridiculous. But, I also have my house wired with gigabit switches and networked in all my rooms. The seeking options are no longer a problem for me on the ADT-1. Not a true 1:1 experience to the Nexus Player, but I'd be willing to bet it's pretty darn close.
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I own a Moga controller and would like to stream games to my TV.
i wondered if this Slimport is any good with providing smooth frame rates and good latency.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Slimport-My...Phone_PDA_Cables_Adapters&hash=item51b69ba38b
if not can you recommend another one?
i saw on the internet that few people bought Slimport adapters for 10-15$ and said they were working great but unfortunately they haven't provided any links
thanks for you kind answers