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Seems like most of the streaming hardware companies (amazon/roku/Google) are going out of their way to make products worse. Someone's probably going to take their lunch and they'll all act shocked about it.
Seems a dangerous game to play with so many Asian alternatives and sbc computers getting to the point they could do that job.
Don't get me wrong this box isn't horrible just really overpriced for the old specs.
US business "leadership" is high on monopoly power... They don't care what customer wants, they don't care what competitors are doing that's not one of them.
They treat American consumer as a cornered market to be milked at every corner. The issie is that many Americans LARP it as gospel.
Vote with your fucking money, deny them profit and engagement.
Media is ripe for this, piracy is the solution the problem here. I wish other markets were as is lol
If we can't even set this clowns straight, how do you think we will fix housing food education. And healthcare?
Goverment gonna be fix for you, boy?
Pinky promise!
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Ah I'm not an American consumer, just these companies acting suicidely mostly in an attempt to restrict their devices and force more ads I think.
I just think they are playing a dumb game because something is definetly going to undercut the lot of them while they are playing silly games. I think my next streaming TV device will be a good sbc as I just don't like these company's being in full control of my own devices.
At the minute I'm favouring a ryzen apu board but arms making a very strong showing now as well, so yeah I really don't believe these big companies will get away with it for long.
The built in ethernet cable seems almost worth it.
It's around $15 to $20 to add on a usb c ethernet dongle to the existing CCwGTV dongle if you want high speed connection to it (which you prolly do if you wanna stream 4k or lower latency game with Steam Link )
Better quality dongles are closer to $25 if you dont want it to crap out.
So, assuming the onboard ethernet is comparable to a higher end dongle, you'd be looking at closer to $75 to get the same experience with the Older CCwGTV model. ($50 + $25)
Add in the higher specs and the fact that chaining 2 dongles together looks ugly as fuck and easier to fail, and the +$25 remaining ($75 -> $100) is not actually too horrible of an extra price.
$100 for a better form factor (the dongle does look bad), better specs, built in ethernet, it's not terrible ngl.
I game with Steam Link all the time on my CCwGTV so I 100% am gonna spend the money on better specs so I feel like I'm taking better advantage of my 4060ti I'm Steam linking to.
If it has a better bluetooth card too that's gonna be even bigger, better wireless controller range is awesome.
That extra RAM is not something to scoff at.
The extra storage is kinda dumb though, prolly the real cash grab. I doubt anyone was maxing out their CCwGTV storage capacity o_O