Question for the techies

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1141

I’ve been hearing about this new Samsung chromebook a good bit recently. Very hard to buy in Europe apparently?

1142

https://www.tobydeals.eu/en_EU/product/samsung-chromebook-plus-np521qab-k01-4-32gb-stealth-silver-2.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAoo7gBRDuARIsANeJKUYpZ688mZ-eWZl_bVoT8oXILUSVDtIwiaM1AbZohjgYkSYRNd9rYl0aAvn2EALw_wcB

What’s peaked your interest in that? I see nothing worth having in it.

I’d spend the few bob more and get a decent laptop

1143

If I get a laptop I’ll end up playing football again and that isn’t a place I want to be.

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1144

I sunk an awful lot of time into that cunt of a thing when I was at college.

Fair dues.

1145

What would you recommend anyway?

1146

Laptop,

A few posts up there a grand acer. Noble machine

1147

This yoke?

1148

Ya.

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1149

I’d say if you are set on getting a chromebook you wont need to spend that much on something decent. You’re limited in what you can do anyway so no real need for the extra power.

1150

Didn’t think I’d be asking for advice on here (no offence) but google hasn’t helped me with this one.

I need a TV that can display advertising, like in a shop, Credit Union, Bank or wherever. But I don’t know exactly how to go about this. I suppose you could load an add /video onto a USB stick and play it on an endless loop on the TV, but what TVs are capable of doing this? Is there a technical term to search?

1151

Don’t know if a TV can do that. I’m sure somebody else might know but if you can’t get a TV to do it, you could use an old computer to run your looped video and connect the TV to it as the display.

1152

Smart TV should be ok providing you dont have the video in a obscure format

1153

Samsung seem to allow it

1154

Have you looked at Chromebit?

1155

even if they don’t allow you play from a USB you could copy them from the stick to the storage on the TV, provided they aren’t too big.

What format are they in @habanerocat - you’d need a media player with the right codec etc.

1156

fucking deadly things.

1157

Thanks but there must be an easier way.

1158

Yeah Copper_pipe seems to know how to do it without going round the houses :slight_smile:

1159

Thanks, but I was wondering about the loop play. I’ve never seen that option on a TV. I was wondering about the in-store (Demo) option I’ve seen on TVs, but I don’t have one with that option myself at the moment.

1160

No video at the moment. Trying to source the right Tv and work around it.