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Really is all I can say if it only had surround sound then I would give it a 10 out of 10 but I will have to give it a 9.8. I used Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate to convert the Dark night and boy for 720p video its killer to be able to stream from my phone this quality. WOW But i used the One X profile and it out put 1280x720 i am sure i could get full hd later on but for a simple convert it it kills all other programs for the Evo Lte.
I really think its a great tool that if you used it the right way you could do about any thing. Yes its a little laggy but not by much when playing video it really does not see any of the lag at all. I really can not say more then WOW.
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Really is all I can say if it only had surround sound then I would give it a 10 out of 10 but I will have to give it a 9.8. I used Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate to convert the Dark night and boy for 720p video its killer to be able to stream from my phone this quality. WOW But i used the One X profile and it out put 1280x720 i am sure i could get full hd later on but for a simple convert it it kills all other programs for the Evo Lte.
I really think its a great tool that if you used it the right way you could do about any thing. Yes its a little laggy but not by much when playing video it really does not see any of the lag at all. I really can not say more then WOW.
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How are you connected to it? I don't have Wifi at home and was hoping I could use the HD LINK and my phones internet at the same time, But I get all kinds of errors, that make the Media Link useless.
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How are you connected to it? I don't have Wifi at home and was hoping I could use the HD LINK and my phones internet at the same time, But I get all kinds of errors, that make the Media Link useless.
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PM me and I'll buy it from you.
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PM me and I'll buy it from you.
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I might take you up on that, Depending on what HTC support says.
so far I love it also!
I'd love to be able to do other tasks (send sms, look up reviews on the imdb app and so forth) while watching the movie on TV. just like that demo I saw on YT of the One X over the MediaLikn HD
for a quick minute one time I was able to do this. stranegly enough I cannot not duplicate it...
anyhow, I did play a movie oncoded to 720p, 1500kbs, mp4 and it played nicely.
I'll try a better quality encode next time.
but, yh, love this thing! can't beat the no cables covenience
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so far I love it also!
I'd love to be able to do other tasks (send sms, look up reviews on the imdb app and so forth) while watching the movie on TV. just like that demo I saw on YT of the One X over the MediaLikn HD
for a quick minute one time I was able to do this. stranegly enough I cannot not duplicate it...
anyhow, I did play a movie oncoded to 720p, 1500kbs, mp4 and it played nicely.
I'll try a better quality encode next time.
but, yh, love this thing! can't beat the no cables covenience
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Most tasks, if you want them to stay on the tv, you have to three finger swipe up when on that screen, like the music app.
Tapatalked from my shiny new HTC Evo LTE
I love the media link, I have downloaded tv shows and it streams great, I use it with all kinds of players.
The only bug is that to get 3g and media link to work you have to edit ur build.prop to enable tether
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I wish these weren't so pricey. $60 is my price point...
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I just picked mine up today. It's okay...but I think I'm going to return it. $90 is a bit steep price wise and it lags a little too much for me. Plus Netflix plays on both the phone and the TV through this not just the TV so you have to leave your phone's screen on, which I dislike.
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I just picked mine up today. It's okay...but I think I'm going to return it. $90 is a bit steep price wise and it lags a little too much for me. Plus Netflix plays on both the phone and the TV through this not just the TV so you have to leave your phone's screen on, which I dislike.
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Im sure someone will create a MOD for this.
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Related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP6qW5oWxfI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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This is impressive no mather how you look at it!
Not really a must see, the thread title pretty much sums it up. Did you really have to make the video over 6 minutes long?
Made me motion sick in 15 sec flat....you need to learn how to hold the camera still
Why does it sometimes say that the videos I try to play "are not optimized for mobile"? These videos stutter like hell. Is that caused by flash player on my phone or is it just the video or site?
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Haha that is great. I now wonder about 4 x 1080p.
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Why does it sometimes say that the videos I try to play "are not optimized for mobile"? These videos stutter like hell. Is that caused by flash player on my phone or is it just the video or site?
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I think that means YouTube hasn't converted them to the right format to play fluidly on mobile devices. This would imply that what you're seeing on your SGS2 is a different video file to what Mr Average Joe would get on his laptop - YouTube still has to help the mobile players more than the desktop players!
i love watching 4 videos at the same time
The limit is about playing GoldenEye 007 on N64oid... that really stresses the device
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Not really a must see, the thread title pretty much sums it up. Did you really have to make the video over 6 minutes long?
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Cause I am a retard.
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The limit is about playing GoldenEye 007 on N64oid... that really stresses the device
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I seriously hope that is sarcasm......
nice but i will never watch four video's at the same time
The best money i ever spend on a device was SII!
Awesome. Thanks Pachi.
I'm proud because I'm own this phone. I think is powerfull phone at the moment. Also I did some picture today with phone and with sony 12 mp camera. Just to compare, very nice picture took with phone. Before this phone I had htc desire hd and optimus 2x, both 8mp camera. But picture on sgs2 is much better. This is my opinion.
I am just wondering if anyone has any tips or mods I can do to lower the nasty pixilation I see when streaming over netflix or other movies sometimes.it happens on wifi and 3g.
it drives me insane when im watching a movie over hdmi output and it even gets "blurry" on my tv screen. Am I alone? Is there anything I can do to make it look clearer /sharper?
I didn't think it should show up like that on my tv also but it does. And the tv isn't a bad tv.
Just looking for a little more clarity. Mainly just a bit more consistent clarity. I don't mind it once in a while but it happens more than I like.
Thanks for any input.
There was a post this week (previous page ) called "Encoding settings for video playback" that was also addressing this issue (i believe). It was a little over my head technically, so I'm not sure what was concluded, but it sounds like what u r saying.
Oh, and I have the exact same experience (annoying), so lemme know what ya find out ; )
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it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
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it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
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That applies for netflix as well? I mean, I know its streaming, but that has to be due to hardware shortcomings, no?
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it's highly compressed streaming video.... garbage in, garbage out.
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See I don't understand this statement because it happens with ANY video/movie I watch with my x2. Have even viewed highly rated quality movies from "certain nameless " websites and get the same problem.
The only thing I don't really get nearly as much.pixilation while viewing is quality videos on youtube when viewing in high quality mode ((go figure))
Even when I was complete stock unrooted and rented a movie from google market I got the same problem.((I can't remember how constant it was but I KNOW pixilation was there))
Also im not really speaking of my videos I recorded.((of which I had great quality and playback was great also when atv720p and DVD quality )) but that was when using blur camera...I haven't tried any video recording on eclipse miui camera yet
Too many variables are involed with streaming. Every company may say streaming is the way to go when its not. Your internet connection, how many people are streaming on Netflix, plus SD vs hd, settings in Netflix, crappy HDMI chord. Bought an HDMI chord from an August zed retailer for Verizon and everything was pixilated. Didn't even get to the video when I saw how bad it.was.I just unhooked and returned. Rent or download the video. That's how you get the best quality. Streaming is 50/50 usually better hardware also makes the difference. Its probably recognizing that its mobile and is giving you crap cause they need to make sure their videos need to work within the fragmentation of android as a whole. Best to leave streaming on laptops hooked to your HDTV and streaming on mobile on you cellphone screen.
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Too many variables are involed with streaming. Every company may say streaming is the way to go when its not. Your internet connection, how many people are streaming on Netflix, plus SD vs hd, settings in Netflix, crappy HDMI chord. Bought an HDMI chord from an August zed retailer for Verizon and everything was pixilated. Didn't even get to the video when I saw how bad it.was.I just unhooked and returned. Rent or download the video. That's how you get the best quality. Streaming is 50/50 usually better hardware also makes the difference. Its probably recognizing that its mobile and is giving you crap cause they need to make sure their videos need to work within the fragmentation of android as a whole. Best to leave streaming on laptops hooked to your HDTV and streaming on mobile on you cellphone screen.
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The thing is the "blurry" picture on the tv screen looks EXACTLY like the image on my phone screen. It is an exact mirror. Im trying to figure out if there is a way I can fix that.
It was worse on eclipse 7. Something in one of the init.d scripts caused my gjjellyfish test to max at 22fps and my mandlebrot score to be horrific. So now that those are back to normal it doesn't happen as often but it is still noticeable. Just wondering if there is a way to improve that.
Do you get the problem with a video file on the phone itself? Cause so far all I can say is that blur is from the servers if it is not happening with the video file on the phone. I don't stream Netflix on my cell and when I used the mirror to an HDTV it looked horrible on TV but perfect on my cell.
It streaming depends with the host servers and overall quality of the video for mobile since they most likely won't be the same video files for computer's cause they meed to make sure it can stream on a 3g network and have the customer not die from old age waiting for it to load. Even though you use wifi it will still send the IP of a mobile which will get you the mobile version which may not be as good.
Only fix is to stream over a laptop instead. If you went through the apps and this did nothing then there is nothing you can do on your end.
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Has anyone tried using dolphin hd spoofed as a desktop to see if they can stream from netflix website? I think I may try this later on to see if that helps anything ...
Still waiting on this....
Any news or any word on this coming?
I'm anxious to make videos straight from my GoPro on my Prime
What is this game/app? I've never heard of it before.
It's video editing app. Possibly one of the best out there. Its made by Cyberlink.
I tried to Google Powerdirector THD and it lead me right back to this thread. -_-
I am now stuck in an infinite loop.
Short movie
Wow, great program, can't wait till its out.
Same as snapseed wow, nice app too.
Although it would be nice to video edit on my Prime I just can't see it replace my laptop for this just yet. Maybe in a few years. I do some heavy duty editing and sometimes give my laptop a workout.
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Although it would be nice to video edit on my Prime I just can't see it replace my laptop for this just yet. Maybe in a few years. I do some heavy duty editing and sometimes give my laptop a workout.
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Same here. Vegas Platinum HD still the one for me.
I use Video Studio Pro X5.
I have been away form the android development for a while now as it didnt have the ability to view movies in it nor was there a tv-out. I was wondering if any of the more recent builds have addressed this? I am having a heck of a time finding it via thread search.
Nope, I don't think anyone got TV out working. There were always bigger fish to fry, and with the userbase not really clamoring for it... No dev ever worked on it.
All our code is open source, so anyone can pickup where we left off. I'd say the project is pretty much done tho.
Wait, the Rhodium has TV-Out hardware? I didn't even know it could do that in WinMo! That's... actually kinda cool, although with as dinky as its CPU is I'm not sure just how useful it would be anyway -- who wants to play a 240p YouTube video on a big TV?
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Wait, the Rhodium has TV-Out hardware? I didn't even know it could do that in WinMo! That's... actually kinda cool, although with as dinky as its CPU is I'm not sure just how useful it would be anyway -- who wants to play a 240p YouTube video on a big TV?
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It requires an additional dongle, which should have been provided if you got the phone brand new.
I've never used it - I can't imagine videos are a pleasant thing. Perhaps a presentation or pic slideshow would be cool tho.
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It requires an additional dongle, which should have been provided if you got the phone brand new.
I've never used it - I can't imagine videos are a pleasant thing. Perhaps a presentation or pic slideshow would be cool tho.
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I have used it and it is actually quite awesome! I have watched full size divx movies using TCPMP/Core both at home on 46" HD (just to test it) and at various hotels/resorts (cause I always have some new movies ready anytime I fly) and the quality is perfect! To my eye the rhods screen and the attached monitor are pixel for pixel identical. HQ youtube looks fantastic, the same as my HTPC playing youtube in 480p. Haven't tried powerpoint yet but the picture slideshow is kinda cool too.
This is just another reason that I love haret/SD builds from XDAndroid. This is a function that I do not use 99% of the time but it IS there when I need it. That and offline GPS are the 2 big ones that keep me attached to WM (and my BT ODBII scanner I guess, but I have a feeling I COULD get this rockin' in android...if I wanted to put in the time )
EDIT: LOL. ODBII = OBDII... Every damn time!! I blame Old Dirty Bastard
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I have used it and it is actually quite awesome! I have watched full size divx movies using TCPMP/Core both at home on 46" HD (just to test it) and at various hotels/resorts (cause I always have some new movies ready anytime I fly) and the quality is perfect! To my eye the rhods screen and the attached monitor are pixel for pixel identical. HQ youtube looks fantastic, the same as my HTPC playing youtube in 480p. Haven't tried powerpoint yet but the picture slideshow is kinda cool too.
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Pixel for pixel, gawd I hope not. 480x800 on an HD screen would probably look AWFUL.
Does it at least put it in a respectable aspect ratio...?
Really surprised anyone actually uses this, haha. I guess some dev can still pick it up? Has anyone even tried the TV Out in Android? Seriously doubt it works, just curious.
lol, yeah it outputs in VGA only. So you have to set your monitor either to have black bars on the sides or zoom(which is perfect for widescreen movies). I watch all my movies at home streaming using the divx web player so I am used to 480p on my HDTV(they may be a little smoother looking on the HTPC since its outputting 720p). These movies look pretty good to me(tho HD mkv changes everything). And free increases the resolution ten fold!!
Anyway, back on topic... I have never tried in GBX because I do not use an official cable for TV-Out and because of this I have to "trick" WM by changing the registry so that it will recognize my cable as a TV-Out and not just a headset as it senses automatically. It actually has to change the function of the pins of the mini usb and thus the headphone jack of the multifunction dongle. The sheer hackiness of the solution in WM tells me that there is no way in hell that it will work for me in android with my current hardware.
And, to be honest I don't really want it in android. Lets face it, without external power you could probably watch like one TV episode before the battery crapped out(okay, a bit of an exaggeration, I know, but you know what I mean).
EDIT: Even more off topic but I can't resist. I have ordered a usb OTG cable from hong kong for a buck and once I get it my next experiment will be trying to play a movie using TV-Out, off of an external hard drive, hopefully while on external power.
As long as there are still new things to try on my rhod I can put off getting a new phone... but I am running out fast!
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And, to be honest I don't really want it in android. Lets face it, without external power you could probably watch like one TV episode before the battery crapped out(okay, a bit of an exaggeration, I know, but you know what I mean).
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Either you haven't tried OMGB, or you're just not aware...
But that build gets as good if not better battery life than WinMo. Thanks to ACL's amazing work reversing the batt driver for WinMo...
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Either you haven't tried OMGB, or you're just not aware...
But that build gets as good if not better battery life than WinMo. Thanks to ACL's amazing work reversing the batt driver for WinMo...
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As good as winmo eh (or even better no less)... That would be something...
Yes I am aware of it, but you are right, I haven't tried it yet. I do see a lot of good things about the battery life, but I am still too fond of WM to call it quits... i know, i know, probably time to "embrace change"!
I actually get great battery life from you guys GBX (I have hacked the crap out of it). I go easily all day and night doing everything and more than in WM. I love them both!
I actually have never tried to watch divx (or anything else for that matter) on android. Have you arrrghhh?[EDIT: or anyone else?] Any experience with watching local video files on the rhodium running any build? Do you need any app?
I am curious now?
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I have been away form the android development for a while now as it didnt have the ability to view movies in it nor was there a tv-out. I was wondering if any of the more recent builds have addressed this? I am having a heck of a time finding it via thread search.
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I can now answer half of your question: You definitely have the ability to watch movies on the rhod running android.
I have just installed MX player from the market and am about 20 mins into a 700mb divx movie on GBX0C with kernel 3.4. So far it is playing very well (much better than I expected, especially with no OC!).
MX installed no prob, then when I started it up it said something like "no codec installed. Install from market?" clicked yes, market comes up with Codec for MX Player (armv6), install that then play movie on card. Great!
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I can now answer half of your question: You definitely have the ability to watch movies on the rhod running android.
I have just installed MX player from the market and am about 20 mins into a 700mb divx movie on GBX0C with kernel 3.4. So far it is playing very well (much better than I expected, especially with no OC!).
MX installed no prob, then when I started it up it said something like "no codec installed. Install from market?" clicked yes, market comes up with Codec for MX Player (armv6), install that then play movie on card. Great!
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i can tell you that OMGB rom does not have a tv-out or at least my phone dont recognize the tv-out cable and flat screen to "see" my phone either. i have one of those tv-out HTC Multimedia ACT100 TV Out Cable for HTC Fuze/Touch Pro cables. works in winmo not on android. but i havent tried any special apps either.
speaking on the quality of the output video in Winmo when put on a TV. It has a lot to do with the file your playing obviously. I carry the same sentiment previously mentioned the RCA out and the offline GPS (tomtom) are what keeps me attached to my Phone.
I use the TV out nearly every day I hook it up to the Gym TV to do insanity or P90X, and listen to the audio via BT headset (I already looks like a fool jumping around I don't need to cause more displeasure on people making them endure Tony Horton or Shawn T). The video shows up not perfect, but I have super compressed files, its good enough to tell what the exercise is and how much time is left)
This setup would be perfect If core player (.mp4 files) would accept AVRCP inputs on the rhodium but that is where my perfect setup falls short. I suppose rather then viewing new phones I could purchase a 32gb sd card and just get different file formats of the videos.
Thank you all for the input, ill live with what i have for now, great work to all the devs as far as they took this project.
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I actually have never tried to watch divx (or anything else for that matter) on android. Have you arrrghhh?[EDIT: or anyone else?] Any experience with watching local video files on the rhodium running any build? Do you need any app?
I am curious now?
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I have tried four free divx players on the Google Play Market on my Rhodium running GB0X. The best performance I found was with Seaman Player, I think that is what it was. MX was sketchy for me, and none of them play as sharply as watching the same files in CorePlayer in WinMo.
To keep from getting to far OT, I have the dongle and it works great in WinMo, but given the playback performance on the built-in screen my hopes are not high that we would have good results on TV-out.
I am curious if this would work...
With the htc media link hd found here, would it be possible to open a NES, SNES, or other emulator or game/app and use the three fingers up gesture to display the game/app on the tv.
I am not really sure if the app itself has to have the capabilities to do this, or if HTC thought out of the box and made it so that the phone mirrors what is on the screen at any given time.
Ideas?
If I am able to do this, then I just fell that much more in love with my phone again.
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Try?
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i have the medialink, and it completely mirrors the screen so anything thats on the phone will display. The problem is that there is enough lag that if you tried to play something simple like mario you would almost always miss your jumps. RPG should be ok, but action games would be frustrating. The best option is still to wire it up via MHL and then use a bluetooth controller.
The three fingers gesture isn't the only way to get it to link, when it detects a medialink on the network or in the area when you're not connected to wifi there will be a notification that you can use to get them to talk.
Lastly, if you're gonna drop the $75+ to get a medialink, you might as well get an ouya when it comes out and just run emulators off that.
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Yea I thought about the ouya today. From what I read though, the lag disappears after a moment and the connectivity stabilizers. Is that right? I haven't looking into the mhl or whatever yet. I will look into it too. Thanks for all your info !
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Yea I thought about the ouya today. From what I read though, the lag disappears after a moment and the connectivity stabilizers. Is that right? I haven't looking into the mhl or whatever yet. I will look into it too. Thanks for all your info !
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Unfortunately not, there is always a tiny bit of latency, maybe half of or a quarter of a second. It never goes away.
Check this out, about the Ouya
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/ou...ts-covering-game-boy-genesis-neogeo-and-more/
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Unfortunately not, there is always a tiny bit of latency, maybe half of or a quarter of a second. It never goes away.
Check this out, about the Ouya
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/ou...ts-covering-game-boy-genesis-neogeo-and-more/
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I can confirm this. It definitely has lag very small but sucks on games like sonic, Mario, or even apps like Raiden. However its terrific for everything else and makes your TV become your phone. I have even used my zeemote as a mouse.
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I wanted to how this works. i have a kit with me. But i am unable to launch this tv gaming. can anyone please help me out with this???
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I wanted to how this works. i have a kit with me. But i am unable to launch this tv gaming. can anyone please help me out with this???
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If you have the Media Link HD then it should be pretty self explanatory to you. Everything on your phone's display gets mirrored to your TV, it's pretty simple... Once you're connected, just launch the game, and see if it's playable with the lag or not. I use mine for watching Droid TV PrimeTime a LOT, but I've never tried a game before. For Android gaming I just hook up my Asus Infinity using the mini-HDMI port built in to the side of the tablet, and play using the Sixaxis app and one of my PS3 controllers. Love it!!!
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