I wonder how DRM works on the hdmi in? that stuff is all at a chip level now, not in software? [This isn't to say anyone should ever defeat drm for use to make a illegal copy, I was just interested in the technology. ] -tl On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:30 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
Scott brought his Tronsmart Pavo M9 to the last GTALUG meeting. <http://www.tronsmart.com/products/tronsmart-pavo-m9>
This looks like one of many Android TV boxes. But it has a unique feature: it has HDMI-in as well as out.
So, Scott, how's the hacking going?
I ask because there seems to be a very good deal on these for the next 3.666 days: < http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tronsmart-Pavo-M9-4K-TV-BOX-Android-4-4-2-Mst...
US$49.99. Free shipping (slowly, from China).
This is based on the MSTAR MSO9180D1R chip. There is a theoretically better box based on this chip (and also with HDMI in), the Zido X9. It has 2G of RAM (vs 1G) and might have better I/O (I haven't checked). But it seems to be ~US$120.00.
I guess (without making any attempt) that hacking on these cheap Android boxes is more trouble than it is worth. Especially since hacking on cheap Windows boxes is so much easier (at least the ones with 64-bit UEFI). But nothing else that I know of has HDMI in.
Scott: can you summarize what you've learned about the box and how you feel about it so far? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk