Anyone who wants to watch sporting events such as the 2018 FIFA World Cup on their cell phone can do so conveniently using a Raspberry Pi with tvheadend and VPN via PPTPD. Everything you need for this setup is already available if you use tvheadend on a Raspberry Pi with DVB-C. If this is not the case, you should [...]
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Streaming services are becoming more and more popular - personally, I hardly ever use "normal" television when it comes to evening entertainment. How do other readers here feel? Whether Netflix, Watchever or Amazon Instant Video - there are plenty of streaming services. Netflix & Amazon rely on self-produced content to attract new customers. This business model, which has been
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Netflix will also be coming to the Amazon FireTV box in Germany this fall. This means two innovations for movie and TV fans in the space of six months. With the Amazon FireTV box, a device seems to be coming onto the market in Germany with which you can access a wide range of films and series: Not only Amazon
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After Apple has been selling the AppleTV for several years and Google also offers an extension for the TV with the Chromecast stick, Amazon is now following suit: the Fire TV box is intended to make the Prime Instant Video offer easily available. Amazon FireTV in Germany from 25.09. Amazon has announced that the FireTV streaming box will be available in Germany from 25.09.2014 and will
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Google's Chromecast HDMI stick, which can be used to turn virtually any TV into a smart TV, has also been regularly available in Germany since today. The available services have been adapted to the German market: instead of Netflix, which is still not available in Germany, there is Watchever and Maxdome. Otherwise, the functions have remained the same: YouTube videos can be played directly
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Amazon has activated the Instant Video offer for all Prime customers. For existing Prime customers, the price remains the same until the next renewal, so the video offer is free for these customers. As I am also one of these customers, here is my first impression. Now that Amazon Prime Instant Video has been integrated into Amazon Prime, the new functions can be easily found under
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A Linux XBMC image has now been released for the Geniatech or myGICA ATV1200 Android TV box. This provides an interface reduced to XBMC, but if you don't want to use Android apps anyway, you get a fast XBMC box that has no problems with full HD videos. Switching from Android to Linux is easy: the latest Linux XBMC image is available for download from Geniatech
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With the current FreeNAS version 9.1.x, the plugin installation has been significantly simplified and new plugins have been added. Brand new: Plex Media Server as a plugin for FreeNAS. This allows media files to be easily distributed in the network and brought to suitable clients. The installation is very simple: if a plugin jail is already configured under FreeNAS, the Plex Media Server plugin
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Instead of using an HTPC as a DLNA client for FreeNAS, you can also use an Android TV box as a cheaper option. My choice fell on the myGica ATV1200, which works with Android 4.1.2 and above all offers various connections: optical digital output, coax output and four USB ports. Setting it up is relatively simple, as it is largely a standard Android and the
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The Raspberry Pi board, which is designed to offer an easy introduction to programming, will soon also be supported by Android 4. According to developer Eben Upton, Android already runs smoothly on the image board, hardware-accelerated video decoding and display is already possible - unfortunately only with proprietary drivers. Video: Android ICS on Raspberry Pi (3:36) In the video from Golem.de you can see
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