Android TV box on 1day - intersting claim

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davidcole

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# 201716 31-Aug-2016 12:06

https://www.1-day.co.nz/products/AAPFFLK01?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email&&utm_campaign=Daily_Wednesday

Says it can do ondemand etc. Do these actually work? I had a similar (poss knockoff brand I bought off amazon). And while I could load the Sky Go and TVNZ apps - I coulnd't play video as HDMI wasn't supported in the apps.

Also the experience was pretty crap as I had to keep switching the remote to "mouse" mode.

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davidcole

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# 1620144 31-Aug-2016 12:08

Also:

AirPlay.

With AirPlay, you can stream music, photos and videos straight to your TV Box It's an easy way to get video, music and photos to your TV, by using your phone it's easy to browse and control what you see from anywhere in your home.

While you can do audio now, I dont believe you can do video since about IOS8

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# 1620154 31-Aug-2016 12:31

I reckon there could be some disappointed people after buying this.

You never know though, it may work as it says. I doubt it though.

sxz

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# 1620162 31-Aug-2016 12:38

Question:

The OS and menus (etc.) may support 4k, but does the video?

And if not, can you still advertise it as a 4K product if technically it can only display 4k text and not 4k video? No HDMI 2 although it does have H265, which suggests 4K video

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# 1620179 31-Aug-2016 12:52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wCbtoNWXN0

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# 1620351 31-Aug-2016 17:58

so for someone like me, who may want to watch the odd youtube video and tvnz ondemand, this should be fine?, I think my tv only does 720 something

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# 1620607 1-Sep-2016 08:05

Morgenmuffel:

so for someone like me, who may want to watch the odd youtube video and tvnz ondemand, this should be fine?, I think my tv only does 720 something

You tube yes....but tvnz on demand I'd be surprised if it worked - I had a device like this and it sort of thought it was a mobile device and so the tvnz app didn't allow output via hdmi. Unsure if that has changed in the past year.

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# 1620656 1-Sep-2016 09:27

Similar devices on the shopping channel promising live sports, movies and all sorts of content you CANNOT get in NZ.

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# 1620662 1-Sep-2016 09:38

davidcole:

Also:

AirPlay.

With AirPlay, you can stream music, photos and videos straight to your TV Box It's an easy way to get video, music and photos to your TV, by using your phone it's easy to browse and control what you see from anywhere in your home.
While you can do audio now, I dont believe you can do video since about IOS8

Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying, but I know on some other Android-based devices one can Airplay video content - for example, I purchased an app for our Amazon Fire TV, which allows full Airplaying of content from our iPads to a TV, including of video. Whenever selecting the Airplay symbol, the Amazon Fire shows up (and way quicker than the Apple TV!). Could this device not have a similar app installed? (Not that I'm supporting the product - I too saw it yesterday and thought it looked a bit bogus.)

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# 1620755 1-Sep-2016 10:39

jonathan18:

davidcole:

Also:

AirPlay.

With AirPlay, you can stream music, photos and videos straight to your TV Box It's an easy way to get video, music and photos to your TV, by using your phone it's easy to browse and control what you see from anywhere in your home.
While you can do audio now, I dont believe you can do video since about IOS8

Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying, but I know on some other Android-based devices one can Airplay video content - for example, I purchased an app for our Amazon Fire TV, which allows full Airplaying of content from our iPads to a TV, including of video. Whenever selecting the Airplay symbol, the Amazon Fire shows up (and way quicker than the Apple TV!). Could this device not have a similar app installed? (Not that I'm supporting the product - I too saw it yesterday and thought it looked a bit bogus.)

Possibly. I know that shairport exists for aftermarket (linux/raspberry pi) airplay audio. But I understood from the kodi developers that video airplay was difficult/almost impossible and assumed that airplay was kodi based.