Got my Chromecast yesterday
For those who don't know what a Google Chromecast is, it's a little HDMI Wi-Fi TV plug in that allows a mini operation of Google TV, it currently only has YouTube, Netflix and Google Chrome. I purcha...
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1492 wrote:
Tell us where we can get a smart TV for the price of a Chromecast for $35, or in my case, a Fire TV stick for $40?
Google Raspberry Pi.. This is a small computer, runs around 25 bucks as I recall, You add the basic operating system and it will let you surf the web, Net-Flix, You-Tube and so on just fine, You do have to add a Keyboard and mouse (Wireless is nice)
NO restrictions on what you can stream to it. I hope to get one and set it up here some day (It is, after all, a full blown linux box), but have yet to get started in that area.
The major differnce is I have a lot of MP2 files here (Over 400 hours worth) Chromecast can not, at this time, display them,, the pi can. With the proper codecs, which I am fairly sure are out there.
(Of course I can convert 'em to MP4 easily enough)
