Google Nexus Q Media Streaming Player Preview

[admin]

It's been (semi)widely known that Google was getting into the media streaming box business. This week they leaked a page on their Google Play website for the Google Nexus Q streaming media device. The Google Nexus Q is a $299 is a 'social streaming media player' that streams movies and music directly from the cloud to your living room. It runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of local storage. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the photos (4.6" in diameter) but is still relatively small. With the Google Play and YouTube apps on your Android phone or tablet, you can use the Nexus Q to send high definition content to your television and home theater speakers. Since everything is cloud-based, the Nexus Q promises no downloads waits or syncing - everything is instant.


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[cwall99]

I'm just wondering how they define "high definition content."

In my world, that's CD quality or better, or, better yet, Blu Ray. Seeing as NetFlix's HD content is somewhat, uh, grainier than Blu Ray, I'll have to wait and see.

Of course, the other question is whether it'll play Facebook content in HD. I wonder if they'll use this device to try and attract customers to that big, empty, virtual gymnasium some people call Google Plus.

[BoredSysAdmin]

I don't remember if I said it before here or not, but until Q will be fully hacked to support XBMC/PLEX or similar it's absolutely hopeless, simply due to singular tie-in to google only provided content. No Amazon, no Netflix. In fact not even Pandora... Count me out due to lack of features alone.

Possibly will reconsider once Devs will able to run XBMC (or similar) on it with full media client features support - including 1080p playback and HD audio pass-thru

[BoredSysAdmin]

Now we getting somewhere...
Hacked Google Nexus Q gets a UI (thanks to side-loaded app launcher) - Liliputing

[BoredSysAdmin]

Somehow I suspect very few Ahers did go ahead and pre-ordered Nexus Q, but if they did they are in for a real treat - Google Style - they will get the devices for FREE
Google delays Nexus Q launch, will send free dev devices to pre-order customers | The Verge

Google realized the Q needs a bit more polish (aka being more like apple tv function wise) before it becomes a viable device..