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Or that they even actually tested the box theirselves with the firmware they did and see if anything T actually performed according to their own advertisement
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Yes, to my point, neither DTS nor Dolby licensing is required for Android TV.
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Amlogic fucked up their firmware so they need to wait till it actually works
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(2016-10-23, 22:02)sandogo1 Wrote: (2016-10-21, 04:25)wrxtasy Wrote: (2016-10-20, 21:39)jakejm79 Wrote: I thought I read somewhere that in order to gain the use of the Android TV OS the company wanting to use it had to send several employees off to meet with Google and conference with them for a week or so out west (for want of a better term). That was the stumbling block for WeTek, it doesn't make financial sense for small companies to have to eat the cost of a multi thousand dollar business trip even before getting started.
Your confusing what you read with what is require to get Widevine Level 1 DRM certification to then be able to stream 720/1080p/4K protected content video from various apps. WeTek has the required certifications and also their AMLogic S812/S905 devices come with Widevine Level 1, so it did not appear to be a problem for them.
http://www.widevine.com/cwip/
So what was the hold up with wetek then? They where already in the testing phase and it got scraped..
Because Google is the one who decides. Right now it has more to do with Google only working with major companies than anything else. There's a reason why the Razor Forge and Xaiomi Mi Box have been released with some major issues, because they had major companies behind those products. WeTek is a small fish in a big pond.
There are technical requirements and such, but at the end of the day it is Google and Google alone who passes out the keys to the cheese. Hopefully they'll open things up and work with more small fish in the future. That's one of the reasons WeTek is staying on Google's good side by doing things by the book.
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(2016-10-22, 15:01)dcervi Wrote: To be a certified Android TV device Google now requires to have VP9 hardware decoding. Wetek should have opted for S905X if they wanted official Android TV on their devices.
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At the time the S905X became public it was too late. It is a different chip that needs a lot of time to get things running smoothly. This is also why WeTek didn't drop everything for the S912. A delayed product means a major loss of money, especially when the Hub and Play 2 are the focus of WeTek's current product lineup. There would only be the Core, which is a good box, but was already starting to be dated by the limitations of the S812.
Android TV isn't vital to WeTek at this time. WeTek has at least two big niches that really help us stand out from Android TV itself: built-in PVR (something Android TV will eventually have working well, I hope) and support for other OSes (LibreELEC, Ubuntu, and possibly others). It makes sense to not focus on Android TV for this product generation.
The future? Who knows. WeTek certainly would like to offer an Android TV product if possible and if it is within our resources. If not, then there will be other markets/features to focus on. No one company/product is one-size-fits-all, IMO.