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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I used a PS3, overkill I know, the PS3 had all the smarts and connected to netflix. Caveat - you may not be able to stream content if the bandwidth is too low. |
Not going to be worth getting an Xbox or PS3/4 for this, she won't get any value for it. All the devices that used to exist don't any more except Apple TV, not letting her get that.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Cairns broadband sucks!
Told you to leave the 19th century and move here to NSW, but did you listen? Nooooo, got o stay near family. Families are so over rated.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Just being curious, why not the chromecast + smartphone? Does she find it hard to operate the phone? I think it would be like a remote control.
My mom who is near enough 70 finally caved in and started using a smartphone, and has got to be quite good at it (meaning she comments on faceboook photos and answers skype calls). Prior to that she only had a fixed telephone, so quite an improvement
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Nighthowler wrote: Just being curious, why not the chromecast + smartphone? Does she find it hard to operate the phone? I think it would be like a remote control.
I think that like me she would think it faarrrkkkking retarded to use your phone to access Netflix and then have another device connected to the TV to get the content there.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Why? All you are doing is using your phone as a remote control - and one that only shows you "relevant" buttons, rather than the "where's the elephanting mute button on this sunshine?" I have to play with the TV remote...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why? All you are doing is using your phone as a remote control - and one that only shows you "relevant" buttons, rather than the "where's the elephanting mute button on this sunshine?" I have to play with the TV remote...
Are you not streaming the content through the phone?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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No, not with streaming video - you tell the Chromecast where to access the stream. Once you have started it, you can turn the phone off completely if you want - it won't affect playback (but ... you won't be able to fast forward!)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Addendum: if you are casting local content (from the phone, or a NAS file rather than a DLNA source) it streams via the phone, so you can't turn it off.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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<fireproof coat on>
AppleTV, does the same as the Roku, just not as well. But it'll handle Netflix just fine
</fireproof coat off
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Your one mistake was taking the fireproof coat off. BURN THE HERETIC!
On topic though: there are a ton of good suggestions. I'd go the rPi route but that's because I'm a masochist always looking for something I can write an article about.
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I would too.
But a rPi with a box and a remote wouldn't be any cheaper than the AppleTV.
And were talking about a 70 year old woman.
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In the rPi case at least you could provide adequate customer service though
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If that's your business idea.
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LOL
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Good suggestion, but go for the remote with voice recognition instead of the basic remote
(costs about 10 Euro more). I would go nuts typing with the basic remote. And the voice
recognition works fine.
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Try something like the Samsung Blu-ray Player BD-J7500. It has smart hub built in with Netflix available, connects to internet via dual-band wireless or wired Ethernet, plays through HDMI.
This is what I got to use Plex on my non-smart Samsung TV and it works like a charm (with the bonus of playing BluRay and DVD).
Cheers,
Brett
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I'd say the Amazon Fire series, it allows access to both Netflix and Amazon's Prime Video, (as well as other smaller providers) and as Amazon aren't playing nice with Android in general, this is the easiest way to get the option to have both major platforms.
Chromecast is a bit fiddly, needing a separate device to operate (the fire comes with a remote)
Android TV (e.g. the Nvidia Shield) is better than the Chromecast for a living room, but again no Amazon access.
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Lucky chap... 70 years old people here wants movies in VHS - meanig people who register DVD and Blue Rays on cassettes. Go find a VHS recorder if you can...
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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Amazon firestick
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Roku. Keep it simple.
Amazon.com: Roku
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Well, technically, you can use a desktop computer to cast to the Chromecast. It's just a pain if they're not close to each other.
I made the mistake of getting a Chromecast and setting up a Netflix subscription at the weekend. "I'll just test it out by watching the first episode of 'Stranger Things'." Eight episodes later...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think any one of these will do the job.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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When you are in a big team, and the code is subject to constant spec changes then well crafted, good performing, lean and mean code is subject to update to messy after thought trash code in the middle that progressively makes the whole code bloatier and slower.
Now little apart code review can be done against bloatier code. Hell when a developer that has no clue about the project get pulled in to quickly add a new feature in 2 hours or less (time is money you know) mess creep is to be expected...
However... At the very least the developer will make sure his code doesn't throw exception!
And now I came up with an idea on how to make sure that performance degradation doesn't creep in unexpectedly!
I wrap every must be quick code in a class TimeCriticalBlock : IDisposable which automatically break if code get slower than acceptable (creation parameter).
This way, if the code slow down more than acceptable... the developer got an automatic reminder by the system while debugging!
Quite happy when I came up with that idea!
modified 17-Jan-17 19:09pm.
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What you really need is to provide every developer with an IoT device that measures their performance. Then management can sit back and watch the performance degrade as each new patch is made, all on a pretty web-socket / SignalR enabled realtime website. And while you're at it, the integrated build process can run Visual Studio's code analysis.
Degrading performance.
Increasing complexity.
Marc
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