My Nexus Player is still going strong, but...

by chocoborancher2000

I bought a Nexus Player in ebay over a year ago and I love the thing but I want to use it on my bedroom tv (a 24" sony fd triniton crt) and was wondering if there was a way to adjust the screen aspect ratio for use on a 4:3 sceeen. I used ADB on my fire tv to do the same thing by changing the window size to 1920x1440 but I'm not sure how to do it with a stock android tv. is it the same process? do I need to root the thing?

edit: I already have an adapter to connect hdmi to the tv. I should have specified that, my bad.

sonictt1

Fire TV's Android OS is a little bit different than a normal Android install, but if the tools are build into ADB, then it's going to work on a normal Android machine for sure.

CuvisTheConqueror

AFAIK, ADB functions pretty much the same on Android TV and on Fire TV, so you should be able to do it the same way. Before going to the trouble, though, I'd probably just hook it up and see if it can auto-detect the correct resolution.

PrinceKickster

How was it now btw? What's the lastSndroid TV version you're able to get? How was the performance?

aenews

Smart TV or not, upgrading to the Shield TV would be a good investment. For when you do eventually have the money, pretty much any reasonably good TV will automatically be a "Smart TV". But you'd still want to use a dedicated system like the Shield which tends to be far better than any included system. That would be my recommendation down the line.

EDIT: Meant to add to a comment thread, not just comment. Oh well.

kabomber

Would you consider getting a better tv and android tv player?