I have noticed that compare to the on computer content such as youtube. especially like androidauthority youtube video. I noticed that on YouTube their bottom right conner icon has more blank space. However when I cast from youtube to my TV. I noticed that the video is a bit cut off, not a big deal, but just a bit cut off. Anyone see this too? My TV is an Old Philips 32 inches from at least 4 years back, but surprise has HDMI-CEC
It's overscan, try to turn that setting off it has it.
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I just got this today and I can't be more pleased with it. It is light and bright and hooks up to my X7501 (via the standard OEM dongle) in a second. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to give presentations on the road. No laptop - just my pocket projector and my Advantage. Amazing!
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cool. did you try playing a movie on it (from your normal laptop)?
any chance of a picture of its performance?
I'm also interested in something like this but I was holding of as LG is also releasing one HS102 DLP (http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/lg-shows-off-hs102-dlp-mobile-projector-with-built-in-battery-d/)
How is the image quality in a normal lit room on a decent projection size.
Thanks and enjoy it
Oh and actually, must be nice for normal browsing? just opera on and projector on and go
I played a movie from my X7501 (my laptop is dead, so can't test) on my kitchen wall and it was about 72" and perfectly watchable. I often have to present where there is no screen, so throwing onto a wall is a common event for me. Was thinking it would be nice for watching a movie in my hotel room.
I have the video out cable for my Dinc and It works very well, but I can't figure out a way to disable the main phone screen while I am using the TV out cable. I use it quite a bit on flights as I have some MyVu video glasses that let me watch movies on them. The issue is that the battery is being depleted very quickly due to havign the main screen on even though I am not watching it.
Is there an app or setting that will toggle the main screen on or off, or let the screen sleep without stopping the video playback like when you hit the top sleep button as long as the video out cable is plugged in?
This might be to specific or weird, but is there any way to keep Google Play Music in full screen on my TV when I cast it? At the start of a song it goes full screen mode, but after a few seconds it changes to a smaller pic of the album art that keeps moving around the screen. It moves like the screen saver of an early 2000s DVD player and it enrages me.
I want full screen. Please help.
Drives me batty too but I believe it's to prevent screen burn in
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yeah, certainly is to avoid screen burn.
What I did is connect the CCast in my 5.1 receiver and then just leave the TV turned off while casting Google Music
Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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Tried searching everywhere for a my problem. Just bought the CC over the weekend. Brought it home, set it up and everything worked great. However, after watching a few movies via Googel cast on Chrome using the yellow video player, I noticed the screen would dim down in low light scenes and brighten back up in brighter scenes. Same scenario with Plex, Youtube, and Netflix. Anyone else have this issue?
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That's nothing to do with Chromecast. That's your TVs "feature" called Dynamic Contrast (or similar marketing name). It is probably enabled on HDMI input you are using Chromecast on.
Re: Chromecast fluctuating Brightness
I have a brand new Chromecast device and I am having brightness issues myself but think it is the fact that I have a cheap import TV. overall casting is always much darker than on my pc on all 3 HDMI ports and my TV has no Dynamic Contrast setting. It does have a dynamic color setting but all that does is add vibrance and sharpness and I leave that off as it makes movies look unnatural.
Even when I cast from my Phone or Tablet the image is darker and there are blues in the darker areas making the image beyond ugly if I turn up the brightness/contrast on my TV.
I hope I can get the cash together for a more expensive TV as I think it is the only way to get a decent image when casting. It would be good if the chromecast extension and the chromecast app had a brightness/contrast/gamma settings in their options to counteract this glitch on cheaper TV's (and cheaper than a new TV)
P.s. Sorry for necroing but this post shows that brightness issues are still happening to this day.
Is it normal for a television to make the text look weird? Like hard to read and stuff. Maybe there are not enough pixels per inch?
I'm using my laptop's (Dell Latitude e6320) mini HDMI port to hook up to my 42" LG TV http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-42LB5600-42-Inch-1080p/dp/B00KVLT0A4/ref=sr_1_1?s=tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1419899716&sr=1-1&keywords=Led+tv
The resolution is set to 1920x1080 and although things seem fairly sharp the text is still hard to read. I am fairly close to my TV as well (maybe 4-5 feet). Is a TV just not supposed to work for reading small text?
It's a 1080p TV so I'm expecting the text to be sharp and easy to read...
You're not supposed to be sitting 1.5m (5ft) from a 42" TV... They're not designed for that.
A 42" 1080p TV has an effective DPI of 48. A monitor has 72. High quality print is 300+.
If you want to read text on a TV that close, you'll need at least a 4K TV.
As @ShadowLea says. TV's are not designed for that stuff. Even with 4K it sometimes looks weird from close distance. I can tell that from my own experience with a Samsung curved 55 inch.