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Hope you guys will be satisfied, I tried to do my best (but I know it's never enough)
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2015-12-05, 13:27
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-05, 13:29 by Tigerman82.)
I e-mailed WeTek (as instructed) to get Core before the 9th, but apparently they only had a few devices to give. So I guess I'll have to wait for the 9th and then make the order. By the way, how does the whole OpenELEC thing work with the Core? I have to have an mSD card to which I then transfer the WeTek Play OpenELEC SD Card disk image with the help of Win32DiskImager (as I'm using Windows 10), right? I'm assuming that OpenELEC does not come with Core.
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There's an Android TV OS for core? At the first post says that youtube app is the android tv version, that means that I can install android tv apps?
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There will be an unofficial build I will post on WeTek forum, but the base is > Android TV
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I think I've misunderstood you. The title of this thread is 24 hd Netflix and numerous other sources say that's what it offers. Are you saying otherwise? If Netflix for android tv is different from the standard Netflix app which also offers 24p Netflix, is there any advantage to it?
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2015-12-05, 16:19
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-05, 16:27 by ChristianTroy.)
I was speaking about Netflix for Android TV sorry, I was meaning that you can't run it because they are limiting their Android TV app access to just some devices... don't ask my why, it makes little sense to me, as long as you pay the subscription they shouldn't care which device you are running...
edit: the android tv version has few goodies (that anyway would not work on the Core) like DD+ audio (that doesn't work with Amlogic's DD+ library) and 4k (that requires 10bit support so maybe only the S905 will be able to run it, and only if hooked to a 4k television maybe, looking at the decompiled code they do some checks on output resolution and other controls) and a UI studied for being used with a dpad, but regular Netflix is more stable imho and apart from pause and seek you can use the dpad there as well even if not at the same level as the "leanback" version.
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Yes and in case you can sideload "leanback" apps that don't do dirty things to avoid you from running them, as an example the supplied youtube is the one taken from android tv.
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I just called netflix and asked them to release and app for Android thats remote friendly. The current behavior makes no sense, releasing the Android TV app for all devices makes no harm for them.