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What resolution / color depth etc does the TV out give? Does it work properly with an AT&T Tilt 2 (I hear there are carrier restrictions).
Can it stream movies decently (SD card or online streaming, if bandwidth allows)? Where's a good place to get one?
Thanks
I've been using the tv out feature a lot on my tilt2. Works great! can watch movies using core player, play snes using morphgear, I even bought a little 7" tv for my car, and will be testing some different nav programs. sorry i don't know specs, but i would imagine its 800x680 like the phone. I used to use my laptop to play movies on the tv, and surprisingly the tilt2 does a better job. definately a worthy 12 $ investment! also, dont buy from china unless you want to wait 2 months!
TV out isn't a resolution in the sense of a computer screen (pixels). It is NTSC composite video, with a 4:3 aspect ratio and 525 scan lines, some of which are used for VBI and thus not on the screen. Which is fine for images/video and such but unsuitable for web browsing or anything with lots of small details.
Given the above, if your video file is not too high res for the TP2 to play in general, it should have no trouble showing it via TV out.
As for online, I have streamed using 3G both Youtube and Slingbox, and used TV out to display it on my Pioneer AVH-4000 in my car with no problems (other than the flicker that is discussed elsewhere).
Don't know about AT&T limitations since I have Verizon. Got my cable via Amazon.
ok, so no HD... I wonder, is it NTSC/PAL selectable for travelling?
The flicker issue in regards to the phone+cable, or the Pioneer unit?
Thanks
dzr said:
ok, so no HD... I wonder, is it NTSC/PAL selectable for travelling?
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Mine gives me the option to choose which one when I plug in the TV out cable.
So, how does it look on a widescreen HD TV (21")? Does it stretch, or is that up to the TV?
I've been using it on a 42" TV to show photos and it looks fine, no lag etc and it goes portrait mode.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AV-AUDIO-VI...wItemQQptZPDA_Accessories?hash=item45ee3e8640
might be what you looking for
I got this one from boxwave. It's great because it also has an adaptor so you can charge the mobile at the same time as using TV-out, and it's only $19.
http://www.boxwave.com/products/htctouchproavcable/sprint-touch-pro2-av-cable_3687.htm
Hey forum! I just got my genuine HTC M500 MHL-to-HDMI adapter. It works great for Youtube, slide shows, etc. but the main reason I bought it was in hopes of watching Netflix on my hotel room TVs. Much to my dismay, when I play a Netflix movie through the HDMI adapter, the aspect ratio is incorrect. It doesn't matter if the content is 4:3 or 16:9, SD or HD - no matter what the image on the TV is squished. None of the other full-screen apps I have tried look wrong on the TV, just Netflix. Anything I can do to fix this?
Thanks!
Hi I just got one of these EasyCast dongles :
http://www.gearbest.com/networking-communication/pp_194421.html
My question is what kind of quality should I expect from the Note 3 ?
I just tried it and it's pretty bad, it shows the desktop but at a very low resolution, nowhere near 1080p, colours are awful, videos play choppy and have garbled compression, games lag, colours also look crap and have the same intermittent pixelated garbled look.
Am I expecting too much from this ? There is a 5g version would that be any better ?
http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_235030.html
Currently I just use it for casting my screen when editing files and moving things around, I have a mouse and keyboard paired.
Beyond that the quality is abysmal.
Is there anything I can do to improve ?
thx
After a bit of digging around I found this :
https://youtu.be/0Yt2pho5q5w?t=295
That's exactly the same issue I'm having, the consensus seems to be they are utter crap.
Ok, looks like I answered my own question, these things are only good for browsing and showing desktop, Airplay is unusable.
"Chromecast-lookalike 'junk' dongles"
Got a Chromecast 2 and it's quite good with redmi note 3 pro. Little lag is present and it's not for the gaming but YouTube photos and casting movies with bubbleupnp
Yeah, I've been reading up on it all today, they all have a significant amount of lag.
The best "mirroring" device seems to be the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter V2, it's straight forward and mirrors with the least lag of all the devices on the market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM7ET3Vylng
If that's the case, there doesn't seem to be any currently on the market that are fast enough for mirroring games, but this would save me having to plug my hdmi and configure the tv every time I wanted to watch a movie on my pc.
As usual it seems the chinese have infested the market with cheap clones that don't come close to what the advertising says, gonna have to dig around for a few days.
Get a TV box and gamepad and you're done. Some very good boxes for approx $60. I gave up on my Chromecast and bought two tv boxes.
Yeah, I'm on the verge of ordering a MEMOBOX MX MAX
http://hz.aliexpress.com/store/prod...-S905-6Quad-Core-KODI/211609_32592383511.html
£46 delivered.
I hadn't realized how far these things had improved.
Just bought a HD6 and it looks like it will only download in 720p
Is this the case for all Amazon HD tablets. Or do any download in 1080p
I am looking for the latter along with hdmi out (slimport or standard)
This is so i can watch them on my tv as there is no way to transfer videos from the tablet
Thanks
Hi, I was just looking to see if there were any boxes that would be worth purchasing. I'm not looking to get an Nvidia Shield as it's too expensive. Just seeing if there's a relatively cheap/inexpensive box that meets my requirements. I'm going to be using Plex as my main source of movie watching, streaming 4K HDR videos with direct stream to the TV box. I don't care if I need a custom rom to achieve it (may even prefer that). I need HD audio out (Dolby TrueHD Atmos and DTS:X) passthrough to my receiver. I won't be able to use an ethernet cable so fast 5Gz wifi speeds is a must (I have gigabit internet at home). And obviously it needs to be able to smoothly play 4K HDR movies. Are there any boxes, amlogic processor types, custom roms that would be able to meet these expectations or is an Nvidia Shield the only answer? Thanks in advance.