Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
Yes, I'm all in favor of using cables for moving data and that's why I use gigabyte ethernet on my main workstation to connect with Rita's workstation when I want to move large video files. My external drive for backup is connected to my workstation with eSata. What I am trying to do is install

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread Bhairitu
Originally AV enthusiasts found that wifi wasn't the way to go with streaming video. For one thing with .11G someone running out to the kitchen to microwave some popcorn could shut the stream down. These days even with .11G I don't get knocked off my wifi streams. I'd like to have an N

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread j_alexander_stanley

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
When we move out to CA and buy the pot farm we are going to build a house and pre-wire it with Ethernet and cable. Right now, with all the grand kids around it's a lot of work running cable all over the place - and these kids just can't sit still long - they've all got wireless devices and they

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread doctordumbass

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread Bhairitu
I've had no problems with wifi and my Android devices watching video streams. I was just given an NVidia Shield which is like a little game handheld console running Android. MPEG-4 displays fine at 3 mbps for 720p. I've encoded TV shows 720p at 900 kbps using MPEG-4 and it still looked

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-23 Thread doctordumbass

[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-21 Thread j_alexander_stanley

[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-21 Thread j_alexander_stanley

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
The key word here is 'casting', as in broadcast. You can broadcast anything you see on your computer screen using Chrome to any Chromecast device in any room. With the Google Chromecast you don't need an HDMI cable running across the room from your lap top to the back of the TV set. You can

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-21 Thread Richard J. Williams
Alex: crude interfaces to the Internet.,, Maybe so, but there's nothing more crude than the interface you see at Time-Warner, where you pay your cable bill! LoL! And, the on-screen menu from Time-Warner is no piece of art. I checked out the TiVo interface menu and it was pretty crude too. Go

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Chromecast, was Apple TV, was Roku

2013-09-21 Thread Bhairitu
On 09/21/2013 08:55 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: The key word here is 'casting', as in broadcast. You can broadcast anything you see on your computer screen using Chrome to any Chromecast device in any room. With the Google Chromecast you don't need an HDMI cable running across the room