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Any one want to port Adam Ink to Archos?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928152
The Adam uses the nVidia Tegra 2 with the nVidia GPU and OpenGL acceleration - so i think it won't run very well on the Archos...
but it looks very promising - so i would be glad if someone proves the opposite!
N23 said:
The Adam uses the nVidia Tegra 2 with the nVidia GPU and OpenGL acceleration - so i think it won't run very well on the Archos...
but it looks very promising - so i would be glad if someone proves the opposite!
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The Galaxy Tab doesn't use Tegra 2 either...
i've read that the adam stutters with multitasking with eden. i'm pretty sure eden will cripple the archos.
madsquabbles said:
i've read that the adam stutters with multitasking with eden. i'm pretty sure eden will cripple the archos.
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Absolutely....sell your Archos 101, then buy Viewsonic Gtab...
ADAM os is awesome. multitasking, and super fast browser.
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The Galaxy Tab doesn't use Tegra 2 either...
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ADAM os works only in dual core processor. Since Samsung has only 1 core processor, it is not possible for the OS to work, same with the Archos 101.
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Absolutely....sell your Archos 101, then buy Viewsonic Gtab...
ADAM os is awesome. multitasking, and super fast browser.
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i had the gtablet. very fast hardware, but the screen was the worst i've seen in all the tablets i bought.
as bad as the screen is on the a101 the gtablet was even worse. if i could swap the two screens i'd have kept the gtablet.
madsquabbles said:
i had the gtablet. very fast hardware, but the screen was the worst i've seen in all the tablets i bought.
as bad as the screen is on the a101 the gtablet was even worse. if i could swap the two screens i'd have kept the gtablet.
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I played Archos 101 before, in my opinion both have screen resolution problem. Since the Archos company advertised that their tablet is more on multimedia aspect. Why did they put bad screen resolution for it in the first place? As far as the hardware is concern, VS Gtablet is way far away... and it has a freedom to tweak it to the fullest. What can you say Apple?
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ADAM os works only in dual core processor. Since Samsung has only 1 core processor, it is not possible for the OS to work, same with the Archos 101.
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Then why is there an alpha of it in the galaxy tab forum?
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I played Archos 101 before, in my opinion both have screen resolution problem. Since the Archos company advertised that their tablet is more on multimedia aspect. Why did they put bad screen resolution for it in the first place? As far as the hardware is concern, VS Gtablet is way far away... and it has a freedom to tweak it to the fullest. What can you say Apple?
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it wasn't a resolution problem, it was a quality problem. the viewing angles are horrid on the gtablet.
why a company that sells monitors chose such a low quality screen on such wonderful hardware is beyond me. I'd have gladly paid $500 for an ips option on the gtablet.
that said robeets work on the port is remarkable! as is all his other work. it almost makes me want to get another gtablet just to play with.
There is a worldwide LCD shortage, and you're all complaining about paying $300 for a 10 inch Archos Tablet? The screen resolution is the same as every 10 inch netbook, and the viewing angles were designed to look right at the exact angle I'm always using it at. Haven't tried the gtablet, but if it's truly worse than the A101, that's a bit surprising for Viewsonic.
My phone has a 4.3 inch screen, and it cost $600 bucks, so I think everyone is being a bit harsh.
As for the Adam firmware, yeah, it ain't gonna happen.
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the viewing angles are horrid on the gtablet
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worse than archos?
worse than archos?
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most definately. i had both at the same time (along with the a70, galaxy tab, nook color, sylvania tablet, and ipad) sitting in the same spots (i rigged a spot in my car for the tablets). the archos had the better screen (though still bad) and is the best at multimedia capabilites. i wanted a carputer and went with the archos. the gtablet didn't get as bright and it's contrast wasn't as good. the angels were very bad.
and you're all complaining about paying $300 for a 10 inch Archos Tablet? The screen resolution is the same as every 10 inch netbook, and the viewing angles were designed to look right at the exact angle I'm always using it at.
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i really didn't see anyone complaining about paying $300 for an archos. i was complaining as to why viewsonic didn't include a better screen option and raise the price. since the are tablets, they are meant to also be handheld devices, meaning the viewing angles can, and will, change continously. to have a screen with limited viewing angles pretty much kills the handheld capabilities unless you've got a steady head and hands.
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most definately. i had both at the same time (along with the a70, galaxy tab, nook color, sylvania tablet, and ipad) sitting in the same spots (i rigged a spot in my car for the tablets). the archos had the better screen (though still bad) and is the best at multimedia capabilites. i wanted a carputer and went with the archos. the gtablet didn't get as bright and it's contrast wasn't as good. the angels were very bad.
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The a101 version has the same limited viewing angles, identical to the gtablet.
The screen on the a70 is superieur to the a101.
I just watched 10 videos on you tube of the G tablet and the screen looks great! Maybe it was just the one you had that was bad.
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I just watched 10 videos on you tube of the G tablet and the screen looks great! Maybe it was just the one you had that was bad.
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A bad screen viewing angle is a common complaint. Just read the G-Tab forums to see all of the complaints.
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The a101 version has the same limited viewing angles, identical to the gtablet.
The screen on the a70 is superieur to the a101.
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unless you've got a worse screen on your a101 than i do, the gtablet is worse than a 101. their angles are close but the 101 gets just a bit more. other reviews have agreed with my observation.
This is a video of the viewing angles, to me it doesn't look that bad. specially compared to the Archos 101.
G Tab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpjdLeQ9LQ
Archos 101, now these angles are allot worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDxxfnuqOY
also there is a video there of a guy just flipping the G Tablet upside down and it looked great! I just think you have to concider all the G tablet is offers for the price, plus other tabs have the same problem and are worst. I think the Noton Ink tab looks aweful even face directly, from the videos. G tablet is a great bang for the buck, specially with the thanks of the guys here at XDA making it what it is today.
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This is a video of the viewing angles, to me it doesn't look that bad. specially compared to the Archos 101.
G Tab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpjdLeQ9LQ
Archos 101, now these angles are allot worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDxxfnuqOY
also there is a video there of a guy just flipping the G Tablet upside down and it looked great! I just think you have to concider all the G tablet is offers for the price, plus other tabs have the same problem and are worst. I think the Noton Ink tab looks aweful even face directly, from the videos. G tablet is a great bang for the buck, specially with the thanks of the guys here at XDA making it what it is today.
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Why are we discussing GTablet viewing angles in Gen 8 Android development section?
Seriously..
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This is a video of the viewing angles, to me it doesn't look that bad. specially compared to the Archos 101.
G Tab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpjdLeQ9LQ
Archos 101, now these angles are allot worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDxxfnuqOY
also there is a video there of a guy just flipping the G Tablet upside down and it looked great! I just think you have to concider all the G tablet is offers for the price, plus other tabs have the same problem and are worst. I think the Noton Ink tab looks aweful even face directly, from the videos. G tablet is a great bang for the buck, specially with the thanks of the guys here at XDA making it what it is today.
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Archos is giving us all the tools we need to do anything we want with this thing.. SDE dual boot.. have you seen UruK??? its not even out of Beta and offers so many things already, plus I can always go right back to stock using the SDE in a "dual-boot" kind of way... G-tab? really? then you might want to go buy one and good luck in the G-tab forums... No offense though, i just don't see what is so worth the extra 400 dollars??
I'm considering buying a Galaxy Tab 10.1 however if I'm buying one I want to be able to connect it to the TV (a 46" Samsung* 1080p LCD) and play 1080p x264 (most likely in mkv container) smooth. I've been looking for information but couldn't find consistance, some say it's laggy and some say that it works fine. Also does it output true 24p?
So I'm asking here, does it work today and is it pretty much flawless or should I wait a little longer and buy a Tegra 3 tablet?
*Not an actual Samsung branded TV but it's a "designer brand" TV and they use Samsung hardware, not that it would really be relevant in this case.
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I'm considering buying a Galaxy Tab 10.1 however if I'm buying one I want to be able to connect it to the TV (a 46" Samsung* 1080p LCD) and play 1080p x264 (most likely in mkv container) smooth. I've been looking for information but couldn't find consistance, some say it's laggy and some say that it works fine. Also does it output true 24p?
So I'm asking here, does it work today and is it pretty much flawless or should I wait a little longer and buy a Tegra 3 tablet?
*Not an actual Samsung branded TV but it's a "designer brand" TV and they use Samsung hardware, not that it would really be relevant in this case.
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Nope. Tegra2 doesn't do 1080p well, and if you want "flawless" you're getting a bit ahead of the tech. I don't know how Tegra3 fares; I've heard it's better, but not flawless. I've never seen it myself, though. I'd suggest just getting a dedicated media streamer (Roku or ?) or a PS3 for that purpose.
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Nope. Tegra2 doesn't do 1080p well, and if you want "flawless" you're getting a bit ahead of the tech. I don't know how Tegra3 fares; I've heard it's better, but not flawless. I've never seen it myself, though. I'd suggest just getting a dedicated media streamer (Roku or ?) or a PS3 for that purpose.
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I've already got an Sandy Bridge HTPC for stationary media playback. To be perfectly honest I would probably not use it that much on my own tv but when I'm over at friends, etc.
Does it do 720p well at least? Thinking mainly of h.264 TV-Shows like the ones you can buy in iTunes and such but probably one and another x264 in matroska container as well. Now I'm not thinking much of playback over HDMI but rather on the screen (which is 1280x800 so 720p would be perfect for that screen). Would be nice to be able to put some movies in 720p on a bunch i 32GB MicroSD cards to watch on flights, train-rides and such (I frequently travel 3-6 hours and watching movies on the cell phone is horrible, laptop works if there's a table and proper space but I feel that a tabelt would be better for the purpose).
If it at least does 720p well I'll probably buy one and have until there are tablets which can handle 1080p flawlessly.
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I've already got an Sandy Bridge HTPC for stationary media playback. To be perfectly honest I would probably not use it that much on my own tv but when I'm over at friends, etc.
Does it do 720p well at least? Thinking mainly of h.264 TV-Shows like the ones you can buy in iTunes and such but probably one and another x264 in matroska container as well. Now I'm not thinking much of playback over HDMI but rather on the screen (which is 1280x800 so 720p would be perfect for that screen). Would be nice to be able to put some movies in 720p on a bunch i 32GB MicroSD cards to watch on flights, train-rides and such (I frequently travel 3-6 hours and watching movies on the cell phone is horrible, laptop works if there's a table and proper space but I feel that a tabelt would be better for the purpose).
If it at least does 720p well I'll probably buy one and have until there are tablets which can handle 1080p flawlessly.
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it does 720p flawlessly ye
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it does 720p flawlessly ye
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Thanks for the information.
The decision is pretty hard, I previously had an iPad but hated it for several reasons. Some of them being that the screen is 4:3 & only 1024x768, your stuck with the Safari Browser which got the Safari css-sprite bug, Mail.app is useless in comparison to the Gmail app for android, especially if you're a apps user with several addresses and I get past all those with the Galaxy Tab however there are still some of the things that I didn't like which precist such as not being able to use it to watch 1080p movies on a FullHD-TV over HDMI, 10" is kinda big, it's not much smaller then my 13" MacBook Pro (8" would probably be more suitable for me), it's hard on the eyes as an e-reader and can't truly replace an E-Ink device, the usefulness of an tablet is kinda limited since an laptop is a better choice in many cases and the cellphone in most others.
I have to do some thinking (I will most likely end up buying one anyway and replace it with a smaller but specwise beefier device when "premium" 7-8" tablets who handles flawless 1080p starts popping up).
What about you who own this tablet, do you think it's worth buying one today? Is it the best tablet?
I've been looking some one the Asus Transformer Prime as well which is about the same price here but with Tegra 3, better battery life, better connectivity, keyboard dock with extra battery included. However I don't quite like that device as much, frankly the entire semi-ultrabook thing seems a bit silly especially since I've already got my 13" MacBook Pro for all the needs the keyboard-dock would fill, it doesn't look quite as good, it's wifi only (wtf!). It's a great product for all those who doesn't own a Ultrabook or similar notebook (maybe not a notebook at all) and need that but it could never replace a notebook, I already feel that the MacBook Air and Ultrabooks are to limited to replace my MacBook Pro so to replace it with a Tegra 3 semi-ultrabook would be unrealistic. Still if the Transformer Prime looked like the Galaxy Tab and had 3G it would seem like a wise choice (even if you'd throw away the keyboard dock).
If you are in the business for HD videos, go for an Archos G9. (Which will most likely get official ICS way before the GTab101, btw =/ )
They have 250gb!! models and provides flawless 1080p playback for almost any video format known to man and has a native micro HDMI port.
The 3G dongle should work with AT&T.
There's even 2 USB-Host ports!!; one full-size, one microUSB that needs a microUSB male/USB female standard adapter.
Support for USB keyboards, mice, wired LAN adapter, Hard drives.. name it.
If you're into videos more than games, it is THE way to go.
Some try to push tablets in a direction they really aren't suited to go and for some of us it's hard to relate to that. It seems that you have a firm grasp of the limitations and how they affect you though. If it doesn't fit you it just doesn't fit you.
To me it doesn't make much sense to put a lot of emphasis on playback of 1080p encoded video on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 since it is limited in storage space and isn't designed (AFAIK) to do USB host at the same time as HDMI out. Just copying a 2GB file onto this thing takes much longer than it would onto a USB powered external HDD so why would I load it up with a bunch of files when I could have those on a 500GB USB HDD and play them off of a Roku or something.
I do understand though that most who ask simply have a sizable library of 1080p rips already and for those folks I say tread carefully because chances are those files won't play back properly.
I love my tablet though, and carry it around nearly everywhere I go. For web browsing, scheduling, email and basic media consumption this thing is fantastic. I have a few of my son's current favorite movies on it just in case he needs a distraction (720p rips off of bluray) and I have a collection of my favorite TV shows from EZTV that I follow. Mizuu is fantastic at gathering movie and TV show data and presenting everything in an XBMC like interface.
Mizuu seems fantastic, but how can I make it find the stock I have on my NAS, for example?
Would that be possible? Using a CIFS manager, for example..
Thanks for the EZTV tip too; (who said it was tricky to find good Honeycomb apps?)
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Mizuu seems fantastic, but how can I make it find the stock I have on my NAS, for example?
Would that be possible? Using a CIFS manager, for example..
Thanks for the EZTV tip too; (who said it was tricky to find good Honeycomb apps?)
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http://mizuu.tv/suggestion/support-for-network-storage-devices/#comments
Havent tried it myself but apparently possible.
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I've already got an Sandy Bridge HTPC for stationary media playback. To be perfectly honest I would probably not use it that much on my own tv but when I'm over at friends, etc.
Does it do 720p well at least? Thinking mainly of h.264 TV-Shows like the ones you can buy in iTunes and such but probably one and another x264 in matroska container as well. Now I'm not thinking much of playback over HDMI but rather on the screen (which is 1280x800 so 720p would be perfect for that screen). Would be nice to be able to put some movies in 720p on a bunch i 32GB MicroSD cards to watch on flights, train-rides and such (I frequently travel 3-6 hours and watching movies on the cell phone is horrible, laptop works if there's a table and proper space but I feel that a tabelt would be better for the purpose).
If it at least does 720p well I'll probably buy one and have until there are tablets which can handle 1080p flawlessly.
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I'm not sure if anyone else pointed this out, but the GT10 doesn't have an SD slot (or microsd). There is a dongle for USB-host, probably would take a flash drive (or microsd in a USB reader) but as far as I'm concerned it sort of ruins the whole purpose of a tablet to have things hanging off of it (just my opinion). If you need more storage you should stream wirelessly (I never put media on the tab; google music, grooveshark, netflix, and allshare FTW!). Otherwise, go with something that has a bigger HDD or built-in SD reader (or just put up with either lower-res or less movies). The Archos isn't a bad suggestion for your purposes. As far as I understand, that thing is made for media. Of course, it's not as nice as the GT10 as a tablet (none of them are, including the transformer prime), but if you just want something for movies on an airplane, might make more sense.
Oh I didn't realise that it doesn't have an SD-Slot, thanks for pointing it out. That's kinda a dealbreaker for me. It's not a big deal normally as I stream most my media via Plex and music via Spotify but streaming is worthless both on trains and airplanes, even if they sometimes do got WIFI the speed is always closer to dial-up then broadband and useless for media streaming, even surfing the web is usually horrible.
I've been thinking about it and when you look at it the price may be a decent. Yeah an Apple TV is only $99 compaired to the $299 that the Nexus Q is. While on the other side of the coin The Nexus 7 is $199 to the $499 that a new iPad is. If you want a whole Apple vs Google ecosystem in your house the Google system is actually slightly cheeper when you look at it like this.
(Of course you still have the older iPads that are $399 but that's for an old device and we all know how Apple people feel about having the 'new' thing)
I'm not even going to go into the cost differences between iPhones and Android phones. But just for a Google or Apple brand tablet and tv device It's about equal to probably being in Androids favor just looking at it quickly.
The Nexus Q also has features that you don't get in an Apple TV but instead you'd have to purchase a Sonos device. Those can be more pricey Than the Q.
I don't know the specs on them exactly or even all their options but I do know they are expensive enough that I would never consider them as they kinda just do the one thing.
The amp feature in the device was deffinatly strange to me at first. Especially with it only being a 2.0 system. $300 for just a stereo is to much.
So I really need my own sound system for suround sound to my home theater. That's cool it has an easy connection but then the amp is worthless. But if I wanted to buy a second and play music around my whole house or put put it with my secondary tv the smaller one that I don't care about surround sound with then the amp thing is acutaly pretty nice.
I'm not trying to push anyone and I doubt I'll buy one (at least right away) as I have a Roku, and a couple HTPCs doing different things. I gave my boxee to my parents. There are lots of options out there.
If I ever wanted to wire up my whole house for audio as well as connecting my tvs a couple Nexus Q's costing about $600 doesn't sound like to bad of an option.
The problem is not the price in general but the features which cause this price.
Me and many other people don't need an integrated amp... If they would sell a version without the amp i'm quite sure it could be better priced ( i'm certainly interested in paying more to support the fact that it's build in the usa although i'm not from the us myself).
I'm actually having the opposite concern than most people apparently. I don't have a stereo or surround system, so i would absolutely use the amp. Only trouble is, i also want an audio passthrough so i can pipe my xbox audio through there too. i wish the optical out was an optical in.
I have one and have been playing with it. As far as the amp, I hooked it up to a pair of pretty good Cambridge Soundworks bookshelf speakers and it sounds quite good -- but like most people I already have a 5.1 surround system for my main stereo, so this would need to be for another room if the amp was going to be useful.
I don't think most people have a pair of regular-wire speakers laying around, so I'd really like to see it have a 3.5mm jack for the more common small, powered speakers. As others have said, it also needs to play local & other network content (Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, ...) before I could see it taking off.
Definitely a cool design though!
My question would be if you hook up it's own speaker system, AND an optical system, could you get it so that you get the same room choice option when you choose music to play? (AKA use each of the speaker systems in a different room).
I love the Google ecosystem and I love the design of the Q, but the price is too high. period. No logic of iEco vs. NexEco is a sound justification (no pun intended). Google missed the mark here big time. If they would have hit the $99 price point that it should be at, I would buy 3: media room, bedroom, and bathroom. At this price point, I buy 0. When it comes down to $99 in 12/mo I may buy it.
Google needs to add the Q functionality to these new low cost google tv boxes like the Co-star. This will speed up adoption and new use cases.
The capabilities of the Q could be the best thing ever, but if you never see anyone use one, you will never buy one. By having Google Music /Movie Party something that anyone can realistically use with commodity hardware, more people will buy into the PLAY ecosystem.
The Q should be the audiophile product, and make a cheaper Q to use like a Sonos Bridge so people like me will buy one for every room in their house that hook up to 3.5mm speakers.
If nothing else, I hope the Dev community figures out how to use Q style functionality on just tablets and phones, that way I can take me box of old android phones, hook up computer speakers, connect them to my wifi, and have multiroom , multi zone audio.
Pricey!
Yeah I agree on the price being a little bit high. Yes it does come with a bunch of features, but in my opinion, who needs a built in amp? I want to pump this bad boy into my surround sound unit. I mean Apple TV is only $99 and it has some killer features, minus the built in amp. I guess I'll have to see one in action to see if it is actually worth it.
To me it's just that you don't get enough for the price. I'm not opposed to spending $300 for a device that can handle multimedia in a great way but the Q, as it stands, does nothing respective of a $300 device. Sure, the AppleTV is fairly limited considering it's $100 price tag...but there are plenty of other options out there. Boxee, WDLive, Roku, etc... all cost *significantly* less than the Q and offer far more functionality.
In the future, this device could be worth the cost...but at the present moment that's just not true. If we had the ability to "Airplay" it might be different...but as it stands very few people could even make use of the *existing* features of the device. When people come over and want to stream stuff to the device I can't expect them to only stream from Google servers...very few people actually *HAVE* anything on the Google servers.
Made in the USA. Our labor costs a lot more
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Made in the USA. Our labor costs a lot more
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Exactly. Everyone complains about **** made in China, and says "make it here, bring manufacturing back to America!" Well here is your Made in America price tag. When I get a chance I will buy to support the fact it is made here.
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Exactly. Everyone complains about **** made in China, and says "make it here, bring manufacturing back to America!" Well here is your Made in America price tag. When I get a chance I will buy to support the fact it is made here.
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Not actually true. There have been recent reports where with shipping and rising laboe costs in China where it is getting to be cheaper and more practical to make it back here in the USA. So the making it here is not the reason for the increased price. I do beleive that they are trying to push a Google dominated thing based on Apple. But I believe that will back fire on them as that is the kind of thing we dilike about Apple. It looks to me like they want you to buy both the Q and the Nexus and be tied to the Google lay store this is why they aren't offering other choices like Hulu and Netflix however they do seem to be allowing the other Dev's out there to supliment that on thier own so they won't block someone figuring out how to stream Netflix or Hulu but they aren't going to help either.
I have all 3 devices. I think the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus are priced very reasonable and cheap in my opinion. The Nexus Q though is way over prices. I have an apple TV (only apply product) and it's much better when jailbroken of course. The Q I get google movies, youtube, and the option to listen to music. Not worth 300 dollars but if it had the full android interface with a remote then yes for sure it would be a great device to surf the web and play games on and watch all kinds of movies.
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I'm actually having the opposite concern than most people apparently. I don't have a stereo or surround system, so i would absolutely use the amp. Only trouble is, i also want an audio passthrough so i can pipe my xbox audio through there too. i wish the optical out was an optical in.
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amp is gay to me. anybody buying speakers today should be active speakers. Unless they are huge home theather then you buy a discrete amp and use pre-outs on your AVR. You could buy active large home theater speakers but they are rare and more expensive
"bookshelf" speakers need to have their own amp. the speakers were engineered to work with the amp and not some random amp in a nexus Q. amp would only be nice for head phones
any speaker that could be powered by 25 amps is going to have it's own amp in it most likely unless they are some ****ty computer speakers
I won my Nexus Q in a contest, along with all the other Google IO gifts. I don't have a modern TV, or computer monitor, can I still use the Q with my CRT TV?
Edit: I already have one of my laptops hooked to my old TV so I can watch Netflix and other online content.
There's not really a cheap way to do it. You have to buy a converter. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&key...er&rh=n:172282,k:rca to hdmi converter&page=1
Now aside from my answer, have you considered selling the device? I have been looking for one.
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There's not really a cheap way to do it. You have to buy a converter. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&key...er&rh=n:172282,k:rca to hdmi converter&page=1
Now aside from my answer, have you considered selling the device? I have been looking for one.
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I don't want to sell it, sorry. I was pricing tvs today, and I will just buy a new tv I guess. The q intrigues me so much, that I have to get a new tv!
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I actually bought a vga to composite video converter a while back so I could hook my laptop to my old tv (I found it out by the dumpster), so instead of buying yet another converter, I think it is about time I get a new tv, they are pretty cheap right now anyway.
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I actually bought a vga to composite video converter a while back so I could hook my laptop to my old tv (I found it out by the dumpster), so instead of buying yet another converter, I think it is about time I get a new tv, they are pretty cheap right now anyway.
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Yes buy a new TV, or even look for a second hand one. Just get something that has HDMI and get whatever speakers complement the Q so you don't have to buy a separate system.
Or if you have equipment to decode the signals elsewhere you could even use a monitor.
I'm using a 46 inch screen that I picked up second hand for a lot less than a TV would have cost me and though it only seems to do HDMI to 1080p it oddly enough will take a widescreen 1200 line input and its as crisp a picture as I've ever seen! I'll probably send the sound elsewhere as it is stereo and doesn't support all the bass boom additives of more modern systems. It was produced for large businesses to use for display purposes.
Hi, i got the official S3 hdmi adapter and i only get 1080I, how can i get 1080P
I have a 1080P 55" sony 240hz led.
Or this adapter only outputs at 1080I?
0mega007 said:
Hi, i got the official S3 hdmi adapter and i only get 1080I, how can i get 1080P
I have a 1080P 55" sony 240hz led.
Or this adapter only outputs at 1080I?
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maybe it outputs 1080p (progressive) at 30 hz only
But my tv supports 30hz, how would i make it choose 1080p and not 1080i?
and the hz are selected automatically depending on the source.
I tried my dell 24" 1080P monitor, it displayed too at 1080I, not 1080P.
Help, i want 1080P
Afaik it's not capable of such a high-bandwith format, and "only" supports up to 1080i.
So no can do as a forum search should've shown.
some people have said it works at 1080p for them in other forums.
Anyone?
Well i think it has to do with how the phone communicates with the tv.
I am only able to get 720p output. I have a 2007 westinghouse 47inch 1080p capable tv. For comparison i have a samsung droid charge that has direct hdmi2hdmi ability, and on same tv i get 1080i output, i am using oem samsung hdmi mhl adapter.
radpp16 said:
Well i think it has to do with how the phone communicates with the tv.
I am only able to get 720p output. I have a 2007 westinghouse 47inch 1080p capable tv. For comparison i have a samsung droid charge that has direct hdmi2hdmi ability, and on same tv i get 1080i output, i am using oem samsung hdmi mhl adapter.
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I have the official MHL cable and it outputs at 1080p at 30hz, however i don't want this display type, ok yea great if i want to watch movies, but i want to play tekken with 2 pads, all i need is the mhl to do it's thing.
60fps would be amazing, however i don't believe that it's possible.
Being bottle necked at 30hz on 1080 i / p or even 720 p is just not acceptable, infact it's a kick in the teeth for the £27 i paid for the thing.
Movie's are great, games not so good, although the jelly bean update i just got did help somehow.
By the way i'm using a 47 inch 1080p capable 3D TV
You get full-hd (1080) resolution, but only at half the frequency of 1080p.
However you should keep in mind that
a) this is a phone
b) your eye is only capable of distinguishing ~24 images per second.
infact it's a kick in the teeth for the £27 i paid for the thing.
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Please tell me more about how the fact that your phone is capable of playing content at Full-HD on external screens is a "kick in the teeth"
d4fseeker said:
You get full-hd (1080) resolution, but only at half the frequency of 1080p.
However you should keep in mind that
a) this is a phone
b) your eye is only capable of distinguishing ~24 images per second.
Please tell me more about how the fact that your phone is capable of playing content at Full-HD on external screens is a "kick in the teeth"
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Because it is !!!
Other phones, ie: the iphone is capable of running games at their full potential speed using their AV link cable, which is just wonderful when i hear it from my friends who have iphones / ipads.
Movies is one thing, but to have the ability to have two pads linked to my phone via bluetooth, the ability to play an age old game on a psx emulator on my phone, I then go out and buy an MHL cable thinking that I can play it at the speed the phone is delivering and then it falls on it's arse and runs at a pitiful frame rate due to it running at 30hz and not mirroring fully, that in my opinion and many others is a kick in the teeth, it should have been thoroughly tested by samsung and not just thrown out there, and for it not to be properly looked at, the £27 price tag i paid for it, is overpriced and not worth the money.
Also about your thoughts on the human eye only having the ability to see 24 frames per second, that has nothing to do with it.
The human eye for all it's faults is still capable of seeing a difference between 24 - 30 or even 60+ fps so having a framedrop is not just noticable it's annoying.
Also the galaxy s 3 is not just a phone, it is a smart phone it is also worth £500 and capable of much more than just making and receiving phone calls, so no not just a phone, it's a device capable of much more.
When a device like the S3 has a peripheral like the MHL cable, promising mirroring of the device onto a HD TV, you tend to believe it, well i paid for it and i wished i hadn't because although it does what it says on the tin to an extent, however it does it with latency issues and input delay, rendering gaming obsolete, which is the main reason i bought this thing.
No 1080p and even no 1080i
Guys
Believe it or not the adapters that we buy from ebay or other outlets are not original although they seem to be. They have a galaxy s3 sticker on the box and Samsung usually does not produce a premium product with a sticker on the box to show it is for galaxy s3.
Anyway, even if they are original they are not able to output 1080p. TV reports 1080i but if you watch full hd (1920*1080) videos with them and you focus on the screen you can easily see that the video is played at 720p not even close to 1080p or i.
Samsung has announced that you can watch full hd videos and 1080p output. but these adapters are not able to provide such performance.
Apparently, the original packaging from samsung should look like this:
search for : "Samsung galaxy s3 OFFICIAL MHL cable HDMI unboxing" in youtube.
Please let me know your idea.
imansamga3 said:
Guys
Believe it or not the adapters that we buy from ebay or other outlets are not original although they seem to be. They have a galaxy s3 sticker on the box and Samsung usually does not produce a premium product with a sticker on the box to show it is for galaxy s3.
search for : "Samsung galaxy s3 OFFICIAL MHL cable HDMI unboxing" in youtube.
Please let me know your idea.
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Interesting. Mine looks like the one in the video below and has a sticker on the box. I have only used it once and was happy with the result. Could it not be that Samsung hadn't produced the boxes for the earlier released product as my actual lead looks the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDr7q_v7CE
Dexter_Morgan said:
Interesting. Mine looks like the one in the video below and has a sticker on the box. I have only used it once and was happy with the result. Could it not be that Samsung hadn't produced the boxes for the earlier released product as my actual lead looks the same.
The actual product looks similar but they must be copies since you can buy them for $20-$25 while the original product from Samsung is about $38. The original products have Samsung hologram on the box. However, have you investigated if the output of your cable is 1080p or not?
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imansamga3 said:
Dexter_Morgan said:
Interesting. Mine looks like the one in the video below and has a sticker on the box. I have only used it once and was happy with the result. Could it not be that Samsung hadn't produced the boxes for the earlier released product as my actual lead looks the same.
The actual product looks similar but they must be copies since you can buy them for $20-$25 while the original product from Samsung is about $38. The original products have Samsung hologram on the box. However, have you investigated if the output of your cable is 1080p or not?
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I have a hologram on mine, bought from a samsung retailer.
But either way i've seen different results yielded from the cable. On my Viera it's 1080i @ 60hz and on my LG it's 1080p @ 30hz, on some HDMI cables it doesn't work at all.
So yea it's a weird one.
Good for movies, utter useless for gaming. Unless it's a slow game, slight input lag.
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