• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    3 months ago

    picture-in-picture mode is finally coming to Google TV, though there’s a catch: apps that playback media content can’t use it.

    wow that’s useful, i only have apps that playback media content on my androidtv…

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      3 months ago

      …PIP already exists in android TV

      you could use it with YouTube and a couple of other things

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        3 months ago

        On my Xiaomi box doesn’t work. It might be that it came with Android 9 and then they immediately EOL system updates

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    3 months ago

    Is this less powerful than the shield? I can get those second hand for less than the asking price for this, and for us sailors streaming apps are not important

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      3 months ago

      And the shield is still perfectly capable of running streaming apps nearly a decade on