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      Bientôt la fin des box Orange ? L’opérateur teste une app Apple TV et Android TV

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 13:07

    Comme Free et Bouygues, Orange commence à tester la possibilité d'accéder à son offre télévision depuis un décodeur tiers. L'opérateur historique réservait pour l'instant cette possibilité aux téléviseurs Samsung.

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      Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 27 November - 23:10

    Screenshot of the Google home page displayed on Downloader, an Android app with a built-in browser.

    Enlarge / The Downloader app that was suspended from Google Play. (credit: Elias Saba )

    App developer Elias Saba has had some bad luck with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns. His Android TV app Downloader, which combines a web browser with a file manager, was suspended by Google Play in May after several Israeli TV companies complained that the app could be used to load a pirate website.

    Google reversed that suspension after three weeks. But Downloader has been suspended by Google Play again, and this time the reason is even harder to understand. Based on a vague DMCA notice, it appears that Downloader was suspended simply because it can load the Warner Bros. website .

    Downloader is similar to standard web browsers in that it lets users access both legal and illegally shared content. The app can be used for general web surfing and can download files from a website when a user inputs the desired URL. According to Saba, the app itself contains no infringing content, nor does it direct users to infringing content.

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      Orange prépare enfin une nouvelle box télé, peut-être avec Android TV

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 24 November - 17:03

    En Pologne, Orange commercialise une nouvelle version de son décodeur TV sous Android TV, avec un design similaire à celui des Livebox 6 et Livebox 7. La logique voudrait qu'il finisse par arriver en France, en remplacement du décodeur actuel lancé en 2018. [Lire la suite]

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      Google un-bans Downloader app, but developer still mad about “broken” DMCA

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 8 June, 2023 - 18:40

    Screenshot of the Android TV app known as Downloader. The app presents a field that says,

    Enlarge / Screenshot of the Downloader app on Google Play. (credit: Elias Saba )

    Google has reversed the suspension of an Android TV app that was hit with a copyright complaint simply because it is able to load a pirate website that can also be loaded in any standard web browser. The Downloader app, which combines a web browser with a file manager, is back in the Google Play Store after nearly a three-week absence.

    As we previously reported , Google suspended the app based on a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint from several Israeli TV companies that said the app "allows users to view the infamous copyright infringing website known as SDAROT." But that same website could be viewed on any standard browser, including Google's own Chrome app.

    "The app was removed on May 19th due to the DMCA takedown request," developer Elias Saba wrote in a blog post today . "Instead of recognizing the absurdity of the claim that a web browser is somehow liable for all the unauthorized use of copyrighted content on the Internet, Google took a backseat and denied my appeal to have the app reinstated."

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      Xiaomi TV Box S 2e Gen : la nouvelle box TV qui va faire un carton

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 1 June, 2023 - 13:30

    xiaomi-tv-box-s-2nd-gen-158x105.jpg Xiaomi TV Box S 2e Gen

    Xiaomi annonce l'arrivée en France de la Xiaomi TV Box S 2e Gen. Le nouveau boîtier connecté reprend la recette qui a fait le succès de son prédécesseur.

    Xiaomi TV Box S 2e Gen : la nouvelle box TV qui va faire un carton

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      Réduction stupéfiante sur la meilleure box de SFR : -40% aujourd’hui

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 29 April, 2023 - 16:54

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    L'un des opérateurs avec la meilleure couverture du pays propose des prix défiant toute concurrence. Il s'agit de SFR.

    Réduction stupéfiante sur la meilleure box de SFR : -40% aujourd’hui

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      Le grand comparatif des box TV en 2023 : bien choisir son boîtier multimédia

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 16 January, 2023 - 14:12

    L'Apple TV, le Chromecast Google TV 4K ou encore le Fire TV Stick d'Amazon vous font de l'œil ? Vous avez bien raison, ce sont de bons outils qui permettent de se débarrasser des interfaces des TV. Ces box TV sont aussi plus polyvalentes que les box classiques des opérateurs. Elles permettent une navigation fluide sur votre télé afin de regarder vos séries et films en streaming, de jouer ou simplement de consulter une page web. Numerama a tout testé et vous présente son comparatif des box TV pour 2023. [Lire la suite]

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      Android TV will require App Bundles in 2023, should reduce app size by 20%

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 22 November, 2022 - 19:08 · 1 minute

    Android TV is going to be less storage-greedy in the future. Google announced that Android's space-saving app file format, Android App Bundles (AABs), will finally be the standard on Android TV. By May 2023—that's in six months—Google will require all Android TV apps to switch to the new file format, which can cut down on app storage requirements by 20 percent.

    Storage for Android TV is always tough because hardware manufacturers want to make smart TV and set-top-box hardware as cheaply as possible, and that often means shipping with a minimal amount of storage. Google says that "in 2022, smartphones often have a minimum storage size of 64GB, but smart TVs have an average of just 8GB." Google itself is actually a big offender here, with the Google Chromecast with Google TV shipping with only 8GB of storage. That's nowhere near enough, and many people run out of storage on the new Chromecast with only the bare minimum of content apps installed. There are 10,000 Android TV apps out there, with some of the biggest reaching 10GB+ , but most Android TV users can't install them.

    Android App Bundles won't be a magic bullet for poorly designed devices with insufficient storage, but every little bit will help. Android App Bundles were announced with Android 9 in 2018 as a way to save device storage by breaking an app up into modules, rather than one big monolithic APK (the old Android app format) with every possible piece of data. Android apps support a ton of different languages, display resolutions, and CPU architectures, but each individual device only needs to cherry-pick a few of those options to work. Android App Bundles integrate with the Play Store to create a dynamic delivery system for each module. Your phone communicates which modules it needs to the Play Store, and Google's servers bundled up an appropriate package and sent it to your device. It's even possible for developers to move some lesser-used app functionality into a bundle that can be downloaded on the fly if a user needs it.

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      Apple TV 4K, Google Chromecast et Amazon Fire TV : quelle est la meilleure box télé ?

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 9 November, 2022 - 09:48

    Numerama a testé la nouvelle Apple TV 4K (2022), commercialisée à partir de 169 euros. À qui se destine-t-elle ? Quels sont ses arguments face à une concurrence bien plus compétitive ? [Lire la suite]

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