okay guys two part question here. i REALLY want to get a slingbox so i can get the slingplayer app and watch tv on the go during long trips since i have 4 spare nexus one batteries. does it only work on dvr boxes? i have a dvr box but not by big name companies like DirectTV. i got one for Service Electric, a local cable television distributor. would the slingbox work on all dvrs or only certain ones?
second question is what are some good bluetooth headphones? i want some bluetooth headphones for the gym since i hate getting the wires tangled up while im working out. any good pairs under $100?
I have two slingboxes, one on Uverse and another on a basic cable line. I've had them hooked to many devices in the 4 years or so. Cable, satellite, basic equipment Even VCR's. Slingmedia has built around AV equipment. With the desktop versions, the software remote looks just like your device's. Very handy.
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I have two slingboxes, one on Uverse and another on a basic cable line. I've had them hooked to many devices in the 4 years or so. Cable, satellite, basic equipment Even VCR's. Slingmedia has built around AV equipment. With the desktop versions, the software remote looks just like your device's. Very handy.
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wow nice. i see the two versions of slingbox online. the HD and regular one. the HD one doesnt give a better picture than the regular one to the nexus one does it?
I actually steam a lot to my big screen. So I recommend the HD anyway. Better than wishing you had bought it later.
It is a chunk of cash, but I use mine a lot. Baseball and hockey.
Bluetooth Headphone recommendation
I have no knowledge of slingboxes, so I will jump into the BT side of your question, lol.
For the gym, for me, BT headsets that have been great to me in my usage has been the Sony Ericsson lines. There are two out, the one I currently use, the MW600. It has a clip but if you want something that is just plain jane, there is also the Sony Ericsson HBH-IS800. With the IS800, you cannot control the music, whereas the MW600 you can skip tracks and adjust volume, also a built in FM radio transmitter, which is cool IMO.
I'm looking for something that will give me a TV Out function.
I travel a lot and I had thought about a netbook that I could hook up to a hotel TV but I already carry a rubbish work laptop so I don't really need to be lugging a netbook too.
Thats got me to thinking about phones with TV-Out.
Ideally I'd like something that I can playback movies, browse the web and maybe play some games (SNES, Genesis emus) via a hotel TV, it doesn't have to be HDMI in fact I'd probably rather have composite so I can connect it to the antiquated TV's the hotels I stay in seem to have!
Any suggestions?
here is a partial list:
http://www.pdadb.net/index.php?m=search&quick=1&mode=0&exp=tv out
I have seen confirmation that the Samsung Galaxy S can dump out component thru its 3.5mm headphone jack.
I think that would suit you perfectly.
Why don't you consider using an adaptor of some kind for your laptop since it almost certainly has a video out interface?
But if I had to choose a phone for TV-out, I'd probably pick the Galaxy S as well since I saw it's HDMI out demoed and it was quite nice.
Rhodium has TV out and works well
I have searched but not found much. I am looking for a decent or better solution to be able to use my Galaxy S3 as a universal remote control to control my TV, AV receiver and other devices similar to a logitech harmony remote. I know about the harmony link software but it gets a ton of negative reviews and I am leery of paying for the add on device needed to use the app that may be more problematic. Is there any decent solution for this other than risking the harmony link software, or would the only real other option be to upgrade to the Galaxy S4?
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I have searched but not found much. I am looking for a decent or better solution to be able to use my Galaxy S3 as a universal remote control to control my TV, AV receiver and other devices similar to a logitech harmony remote. I know about the harmony link software but it gets a ton of negative reviews and I am leery of paying for the add on device needed to use the app that may be more problematic. Is there any decent solution for this other than risking the harmony link software, or would the only real other option be to upgrade to the Galaxy S4?
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You can't do this directly from the S3 because it does not have a IR or RF port. If your equipment will allow something to connect through Wifi or bluetooth then you can. I connect to my Directv receivers through my home network.
OR
You could spend a little more and buy a bluetooth device that will act as a IR emmiter between your phone and the devices. Check out the link below.
http://store.griffintechnology.com/...&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CO2GxrXck7cCFao-MgoddSkA6w
Well, this is more of a curiosity question than a practical. I was wondering if it was possible to get my Xbox running on my Surface screen, considering my surface is just a computer with a screen, I've tried HDMI to HDMI Mini, but I didn't think that would work... and it didn't.
Like I said, I don't need the answer, but it would be nice knowing I could play on my Xbox on the go.
No, Surface only has hdmi out and not hdmi in.
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No, Surface only has hdmi out and not hdmi in.
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That's a Damn shame.
It's the same on all laptops. I've never yet seen a single one that could take HDMI in.
The only devices I have seen with HDMI in have been displays (of course) and video capture devices.
You can use a usb HDMI capture device as an input, bit latency on those things is sky high to the point that all games will be unplayable.
Otherwise. No computer to my knowledge has HDMI input abilities, including the surface.
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The only devices I have seen with HDMI in have been displays (of course) and video capture devices.
You can use a usb HDMI capture device as an input, bit latency on those things is sky high to the point that all games will be unplayable.
Otherwise. No computer to my knowledge has HDMI input abilities, including the surface.
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My question now is.... why? Is it a hardware issue? Too me it makes no sense, I can't work out why they wouldn't make it possible.
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My question now is.... why? Is it a hardware issue? Too me it makes no sense, I can't work out why they wouldn't make it possible.
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Yes, it hardware. It like you cannot put 3.5mm microphone jack into 3.5mm headphone jack on many mp3 player and phone. It design to output port. Not input port. Except some device that combine output/input port into one.
Processors and graphics cards only ever have HDMI output. Never input. It would be an intensive task to record an HDMI input.
Now you could suggest that they rewire tye HDMI port directly to the screen, sadly the screen is not an HDMI screen on a laptop or tablet. Its usually LDVS or DSI, the former is more common. HDMI to LDVS adaptors exist but would add cost to the device and increase the amount of electronics you need to fit inside the shell of the laptop or tablet, your already space restricted in there.
Cheers everyone
Actually, you can connect your Xbox's HDMI into the Surface Pro, if you have an HD PVR, or any similar HDMI Capture Card.
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Actually, you can connect your Xbox's HDMI into the Surface Pro, if you have an HD PVR, or any similar HDMI Capture Card.
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Already mentioned capture devices. The latency on them (particularly USB ones) is just terrible. If your using a pass through capture card or hdmi splitter to play Xbox on the TV then the latency doesn't matter, but trust me, trying to play on your computer screen via a capture device is so bad that you might as well not play in the first place.
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Already mentioned capture devices. The latency on them (particularly USB ones) is just terrible. If your using a pass through capture card or hdmi splitter to play Xbox on the TV then the latency doesn't matter, but trust me, trying to play on your computer screen via a capture device is so bad that you might as well not play in the first place.
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I can confirm that 100% as I use a HDMI capture card on my desktop PC and it has a 50ms latency which is terrible, but I use it to record my Black Ops 2 videos from the in-game Vault so it's not a problem to me as I don't use it to directly play on it. But if I have such a huge latency, imagine that with a USB capture card like the Hauppauge HD-PVR ! It'd just be unplayable.
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Already mentioned capture devices. The latency on them (particularly USB ones) is just terrible. If your using a pass through capture card or hdmi splitter to play Xbox on the TV then the latency doesn't matter, but trust me, trying to play on your computer screen via a capture device is so bad that you might as well not play in the first place.
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I have an HDMI Capture Card via USB, and I know they're not meant to play on a Computer Screen.
Why should you even do that (unless you're without a TV, of course)?
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I have an HDMI Capture Card via USB, and I know they're not meant to play on a Computer Screen.
Why should you even do that (unless you're without a TV, of course)?
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That is what was suggested, the OP asked can he play his xbox using the surface as a monitor. USB capture card would be the only way and ,as we have long established, has far too much latency
If only there was an Xbox emulator.
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If only there was an Xbox emulator.
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Try emulating a 3.5ghz triple core powerPC CPU on your 1.7ghz dual core surface pro and then come back and ask that question again
Hell, all those guys moaning about no backwards compatibility for the xbox one, there is a reason for no backwards compatibility. 360 uses PowerPC, one uses x86. Emulation will be needed. General rule, to emulate platform A on platform B, platform B must be 10 times more powerful than platform A. Its a general rule, but the xbox one does not meet that requirement yet is way more powerful than the surface is.
The xbox live indie games use XNA and .NET though. No backwards compatibility for them is an absolute joke. It would be relatively trivial for a corporation such as microsoft to have .NET running on the one (infact I would hazard a guess that it will be), why the hell dont they let the indige games carry on over???? But now I am getting off topic.
End conclusion, no Xbox > surface is really possible unless you are screen capturing on a surface pro which would still be an undesirable situation for playing games, only recording.
To be fair he might have meant the original Xbox, which at 500MHz single-core x86 is probably too computationally intensive for the Surface RT (beacuse of the need to emulate x86) but might be possible even so, and would be trivial for the Pro. However, Microsoft does not generally approve of such emulators.
Yeah, original Xbox could well draw on existing hardware but no one has had much success as of yet which is a shame.
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Yeah, original Xbox could well draw on existing hardware but no one has had much success as of yet which is a shame.
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Yeah that's what I meant. I have a Pro and currently run several emulators. I am aware of the 360 specs but was mistaken that this thread wasn't about Original Xbox.
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Original Xbox and pre elite 360s didn't have an HDMI out which is what was being discussed.
Hello Folks!
Maybe thats a dumb question, but why not?
So this is the situation...I have an really old and big TV at home, which only has RCA Inputs. As I watch a lot videos on youtube/other websites, I was wondering how to get these videos on the TV for maximum comfort
So this day I found an old TRRS->RCA Cable back from my Nokia N95, which seemed to work (checked it with a measuring instrument; it's the OMTP Standard). Looks like this.
I was enthusiastic and plugged it in, turned the TV on - the sound was running nicely, but there was no video. Ok; I thought 'maybe it's only a software issue and I have to share the Nexus' screen anywhere'...but I could not find it.
So I was browsing the whole afternoon to find a solution and I found this on reddit. I know, that this was possible with an old Galaxy S and some HTC Devices.
Is it true, that the TRRS Jack in our Nexus 5 can only be used for Microphones?
Is there no way to say the device via software to use that ring on the TRRS as video output?
Does anyone know if the board is configured or is it hard-wired only to work like this?
I'm running newest OmniRom 4.4.4 Nightly.
Please don't say "buy a new TV ans use HDMI, buy these, buy that"...as I'm a poor student I don't want to spend a lot money
(been thinking about buying the new RasPi which has exactly this feature, but I don't know how good video streaming is working with this one...)