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  • #11
    Originally posted by DrYak View Post
    3. - Here around in europe (Switzerland, Germany, etc.) IPTV with Multicast is gaining traction. All the "free" channels are available on the nationnal broadband networks.
    But that requires either a settop box or a modern "smart" TV. Devices like any of the Chromecast/FireTV Stick/Matchstick will be able to bring support for it to "dumb" TVs (that have only DVD-T/C tunners and no networking capabilities). Matchstick is more likely to get it (it's opensource), than Chromecast or FireTVStick (they're targeted at markets, like US, where Multicast IPTV with free channels isn't as popular)
    (i.e.: there's ton of streaming content available without DVB. Just not in the country where you happen to live).
    I completely disagree that matchstick is more likely to gain multicast iptv support than chromecast, especially since with a small amount of imagination, you can do it on chromecast *now*.
    More importantly though, chromecast, being Android, is also open source (the devices are just locked), and castable applications are basically trivial to write, again... open source.

    Edit...
    Actually: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oid.aff96825Rj
    Oh look. :P
    Last edited by droidhacker; 29 October 2014, 08:22 AM.

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