Chinese device maker Tronsmart offers a line of Android-powered TV boxes. But a year and a half ago the company also introduced a sort of Chromecast-like device called the Tronsmart T1000. Plug it into your TV and you can use it to beam content from your phone or PC to your display. Now the company has […]
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CyanogenMod to let you mirror your phone on a TV with Apple TV AirPlay support
Google may have thwarted CyanogenMod developer Koushik Dutta’s efforts to make the Chromecast more useful by letting you stream all sorts of content from your phone to a Chromecast. But he’s shifted his efforts to the Apple TV. Koush is showing off an upcoming CyanogenMod feature that lets you mirror your phone’s display on a […]
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PLAiR $99 HDMI dongle lets you stream internet video to your TV
Like the idea of a stick that you can plug into your TV to watch internet video on the big screen, but want something a little simpler to use than an Android TV stick? Earlier this year pre-orders for something called a PLAiR opened up, with the promise of delivering a $99 stick that lets […]
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Google’s beta culture infecting the hardware side of the business
Remember last week when I said that Google was moving its habit of beta launching software, getting tons of users, killing it, then resurrecting elements as different software had now moved into the hardware realm? We’ve now reached the “kill it” stage with the Nexus Q. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise for a […]
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Google TV to get AirPlay-like music and video streaming functionality
Earlier this month when I reviewed the Nexus Q set-top streaming device, I kept wondering why in the world Google needed to create a new product for this function when it would be so much better to make it a feature of Google TV. The Q allows Android phone and tablet owners to stream video […]