These are really sweet, its a google tv that plugs into your tv via hdmi, you can get one with a wireless keyboard and mouse or supply your own. it runs android 4.0 and has google play, i would deff love one of these.
without remote
with remote
Discuss!
Looks pretty similar to roku.
i was thinking the same thing, roku is pretty bad ass but you are limited, this you seem not to be.
Limited how?
this technically is not a google tv device, its android 4.0 on a USB drive essentially
I have a feeling that when they re-release the nexus Q it will be a google TV device similar to roku
I have a 4 year old desktop that I paid $0 for hooked up to my flat screen with a wireless mouse. It works, and cost me a total of $19
Is this better than that?
Good point, I stumbled upon this and thought it was different, I love the roku2 I told my dad to get one but he’s cheap lol. Jam I have a htpc that I spent about $10 on a mce remote it was a Christmas newegg special.
Do either of the homebrew ones you guys have do 1080p?
HD was a big issue with cheaper boxes over the past few years.
I’m really picturing you as one of those people who have their flat screen tv sitting on top of an old console tv like this (I can even see your htpc in this pic):
I’m thinking about building a Raspberry Pi just to mess with it running XBMC. They finally solved the issue with Mpeg2 decoding by allowing you to purchase your own individual codec license for about $4 (it’s 2.40 UK)
Ah bachelor life. I miss being able to consider cinder blocks reasonable furniture. Life was so much simpler then.
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Let us know how these chinese knockoffs work. I’d expect them to be all sorts of buggy, but you never know.
Ill take a pic of my setup when I get home, idk if I could buy one of these for just testing purposes.
I’d rather have a jailbroken Apple TV, but alas the Apple TV 3 still hasn’t been jailbroken.
Yeah, been doing some more reading this morning and I’m definitely going to order one of these:
my rasp pi comes in tomorrow! cant wait!!!
Who did you order it through?
Going to post a build thread over in OT?
http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi2.html?isRedirect=true&ICID=raspberrypigroup_us
^ the US site says the have 100 ready to ship. I ordered mine on Monday and I am getting it tomorrow.
Not sure mine will be any kind of astonishing build. I am either going to go Android 4.0 with it or just go with Raspbmc or xbmc. Raspbmc is xbmc optimized for the device. We will see how it all turns out. As for a case goes, I am probably just going to build a “siq” case out of legos and Velcro it to the back of my tv and hook up my rasp pi up to the tv(wall mounted) for a power source so when the tv gets flipped on my pi goes on. Then I will probably just do remote controls through smart phones for now. Eventually I would like to get a remote or program an existing one. I am planning on just streaming and serving files from my desktop which i will purpose into a server.
edit: more links!
:tup:
Just ordered one. Was planning on Raspbmc as well.
Cant go wrong with $40 something with shipping…
Installed Raspbmc on my SD card this a.m. and I am trying to retrieve the rest of the download via ethernet at work and its not working. Something tells me they are blocking the necessary port 
I guess I will have to wait till I get home later 