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Any Chromecast users ?

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Bought one just for playing with and read that there are some hacks available, hopefully it arrived today or at worst tomorrow so i can have a play.
If its no good i'll buy an RPi but it should be useful even un hacked.
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Why would you want to hack that.
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xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
Why the hell not ?
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I'm planning on getting one too soon, just for the sake of it.
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Wife says it was just delivered so now i can have a play :)
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bigkidoz wrote:
xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
Why the hell not ?
Well because all the device does is allow you to connect other devices to it and desplay the connected devices actions on you screen.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=2578653
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I'll shut up now :(
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xboxprince wrote:Why would you want to hack that.
I mainly only buy stuff that can be hacked :-D
Once hacked I am ashamed to say a lot of my stuff is not as interesting,

Plex is working on this now too so just for that would be good for £25 quidish.
Not as good a deal as the 10 pound now tv box mind but I think I will still get one for tinkering purposes.....
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Just had a look a bit deeper. No Chromecast for me for now...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=2621784
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Ordered one yesterday..... £30.

Worth a shot for that I recon, no root access is a blow but not the end of the world, if I dont like it I usually end up ether flogging or passing on to my Mum! :lol:
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Mines unrootable for now at least, i'm sure someone will find another exploit soon enough.
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Hmmmm I'm finding this a pretty pointless device to be honest... I was bored within 30 minutes...

I guess if you want to show Youtube or Netflix then you would benefit.. other than that... not really much you can do with it.

The picture isnt that great.. apparently even 1080p content is coded down to 720p....

For me a dust gathering device :(
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Geeba wrote:Hmmmm I'm finding this a pretty pointless device to be honest... I was bored within 30 minutes...

I guess if you want to show Youtube or Netflix then you would benefit.. other than that... not really much you can do with it.

The picture isnt that great.. apparently even 1080p content is coded down to 720p....

For me a dust gathering device :(
For the same price an RPi is better value which is what i'll be buying , my daughter loves it though streaming youtube vids from from her android tablet to the tv.
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I got one just for sake of it too. :D
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I'm thinking to get one and "cast" content from a XBMC4Xbox through the remote app - if possible to send movie art, subtitles and things like that from an XBMC4Box that would be great, this way it will do mostly the "media manager" or "media storage" part, and have the Chromecast play HD videos and such, or scenarios where you have a single XBMC4Xbox machine in the house and multiple TVs with their own Chromecast...
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Dan Dar3 wrote:I'm thinking to get one and "cast" content from a XBMC4Xbox through the remote app - if possible to send movie art, subtitles and things like that from an XBMC4Box that would be great, this way it will do mostly the "media manager" or "media storage" part, and have the Chromecast play HD videos and such, or scenarios where you have a single XBMC4Xbox machine in the house and multiple TVs with their own Chromecast...
That would be good and at least make it more usable than they are .
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Now rootable again! :smile:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardwar ... e-t2855893
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Bugger, now i need to buy a teensy board.
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Custom firmware?
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