[GTALUG] little Android set-top boxes with HDMI in

[ted leslie]

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 at 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-Mstar-MSO9180D1R-1GB-8G-802-11-b-g-n-LAN-H-265-USB3-0-HDMI-347691.html
> >
> 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?
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