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"Google Nexus Q media streamer: first impressions and video"
Reply to: by elementary
There were noticeable video artifacts when watching an episode of The Walking Dead, and the Q repeatedly halted playback to buffer the video stream (all on a 35 Mbps connection here in our west coast offices).
Streaming your local media straight from the phone over wifi turns out to be a lot faster than streaming across the internet despite the battery drain.
This preference for streaming “from the Google Play store” seems to be an interesting way to avoid the Airplay/DLNA route, but it’s also not as efficient.
As useful as Airplay streaming is for music, I’d wager that most Apple TV users aren’t streaming TV shows and movies from their phone – they’re streaming them from an iTunes share. That route isn’t quite available to Google.
What if a future update allows the Nexus Q to manually “sync” a given chunk of offline content from the Google Play store? :D
Reply to: by elementary
Streaming your local media straight from the phone over wifi turns out to be a lot faster than streaming across the internet despite the battery drain.
This preference for streaming “from the Google Play store” seems to be an interesting way to avoid the Airplay/DLNA route, but it’s also not as efficient.
As useful as Airplay streaming is for music, I’d wager that most Apple TV users aren’t streaming TV shows and movies from their phone – they’re streaming them from an iTunes share. That route isn’t quite available to Google.
What if a future update allows the Nexus Q to manually “sync” a given chunk of offline content from the Google Play store? :D