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Today's Topics:

1. Re: OT: TiVo and streaming boxes (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:38:08 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] OT: TiVo and streaming boxes
Message-ID: <5436D610.3070802@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
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Seb,

On 28/09/14 22:00, Sebastian wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ok I got a nice enough HD TV, but a few years old or so V+ Box
> connected to it, and from what I know about the TiVo it has never
> really seemed worth the upgrade as such in my case.
>
> Now days these streaming boxes seem to be the thing, the Chromecast
> that Peter was emailing about is one of them. It's cheap and then it
> seems the idea is to get people buying music,etc, from Google Play.
> There's Apple TV to, and soon Amazon Fire which looks like it's going to
> be a good one, especially if the being able to search using the
> microphone in the remote works properly. However of course with Amazon
> Fire people are then meant to use Amazon Prime really with it as well,
> which would be about the same price as the box itself per year. Although
> Netflix and Spotify will work on the Amazon Fire as well.
>
> I also know that in Linux land we can do magical things with XBMC, which
> no I don't think I have used.
>
> Not a major TV watcher, mainly channels such as Sky One and BBC One. I
> also have no additional move channels such as Sky Movies, but would be
> nice to be able to stream more movies onto the TV via Netflix or
> possibly something else maybe even.
>
> It's all a bit confusing really, because I am not sure really if it
> would be better really in my case to get the TiVo or some sort of
> streaming box, or carry on without anything like that for now anyway.
> So any suggestions? With a thanks in advanced.
>
> Also Peter how have you been getting on with your Chromecast more recently?

I have not had much time for this till the last few days!

I have got Chrome Browser with the Chromecast addon and I could see the
"Google Cast" icon in the top left of the menu bar.

I connected up Chromecast dongle to Samsung TV and it connected OK to
local wifi, but the latptop could not see it.

The problem was that ports were not open on my local network laptop.

I found this:

http://forsetti.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/using-google-chromecast-from-fedora-19/

I can now see my chrome browser on the TV, I also tried Youtube and
videos play OK. Not had time to test other sited but I assume
compatible sites will work as well.

I am not sure if it will work with 4OD but I suspect it won't!
(I would be interested if anyone has got that to work).



>
> Regards
>
> Sebastian
>
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