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We've just got a new Samsung Smart tv, it's our first brand new telly in 17 years we've always had the father in law's cast offs.
It has all the catch up stuff on it and we can plug an external hard drive in and play films from it.
The YouTube app is great, browse videos on your phone or tablet and view them on the tv.
Very simple to set up, just plug and play.
yeah a mates got samsung smart tv too, wish we'd done a bit more research and stayed away from sony 😀
so do you access the tv's youtube and iplayers etc using your phone as a remote, rather than typing with the tv remote?
i was hoping for a cheap £30 fix, hope i dont have to buy a new tv!! 😀
just found out that youtube has a chromecast button within its own window!! i didnt know! ive been pressing the button on the chrome browser itself. this has solved that problem, i can watch youtube ok now 🙂
obviously it hasnt sorted out the problem of the blockiness from my laptop content.
does this mean anything to anyone? does it show everythings ok (wifi, dongle etc) except for our laptops?
buy a raspberry pi from amazon.
insert an sd card into laptop and load OS?
put sd card into pi and boot up, it now has OS.
source a usb keyboard to allow pi to be controlled from phone.
instal app on phone to control pi
put sd card into laptop
put 4OD and iplayer zips onto card.
put card back into pi and instal zips.
Pretty much but it's easier than that. [url= http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4100 ]Look here for a great way to install an OS[/url]
Your TV remote will probably control the pi way easier than a phone will. You can install 4OD, etc all from within XBMC on the pi.
thanks, its a contender.
currently googling up on WD TV. it was mentioned earlier in the thread but not really investigated. anyone got any experiences?
might it work better for me than the chromecast?
ive been recommended an LG bluray player. apparently through wifi they can stream files from laptop and play youtube/iplayer/4OD/netflix apps.
been googling and theres a lot of negative customer reviews. anyone tried them?
looking specifically at [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-Booting-BP630-Blu-ray-Miracast/dp/B00BQYEKSM/ref=dp_ob_title_ce ]this one[/url]