TinyTVs Offer a Bitesize Raspberry Pi Dose of Television

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TinyTVs Offer a Bitesize Raspberry Pi Dose of Television

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Okay, this would be a cool gift for some of my friends. I have a friend who is a podiatrist, who is obsessed with Seinfeld. Every exam room in his office is named after one of the show's main characters, and he has episodes running 24/7 in the waiting room.

Heck, I think it would be a cool addition to my Star Trek shrine.

Much better than the one they came out with 3 years ago.

$50 in Indiegogo with expected ship date of April, or you can wait until it shows up on their store:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the- ... ytv-mini#/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspb ... television
https://tinycircuits.com/collections/tinytvs

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Okay! It finally came in today!

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What's the capacity on that thing?
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8GB. You have to run the video files through a converter they supply that you can download, which converts it to an AVI scaled for the display. There's lot's of room. I have 14 10 minute clips in there that are using about 400MB right now. Data transfer to the TV over USB is pretty slow (either it's a USB 2 interface, and/or some slow NAND), so that's all I wanted for now, but eventally I should be able to a dozen or more full episodes on it.

By default, it's configured to just loop one channel (video) unless you change channels, but there's a simple text file on it that has a setting that plays all the files and then loops back, which is what I did.
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