Really bummed that the team came to this conclusion. I am a backer and found them at CES 2015 since they said they would be there with a demo. They had screencasting working and controlled it with an app on their phone. It was a little buggy and froze once, but totally worth the amount I backed them for. Around this time they decided to redesign the sticks with more processing power. I figured respinning the boards would take a while, but the software looked so good in January that I never thought it would be what brought the project to a halt.
Personally I'd be fine with transcoding videos on the fly from another machine to remove the DRM, but I suppose that defeats the purpose of a small hdmi stick if you have a full powered desktop running in the next room over. But really most of the stuff on my local netowrk doesn't have DRM and I don't do a whole lot of online streaming beyond Amazon Prime and I have an app on my TV for that. I suppose all I really wanted was screencasting without having to pay $100 for a WiDi adapter. Oh well.
But at least I'm getting a refund, so I don't suppose I have any ill will for the team. I have backed projects before that did a magic trick with my money - one shoe KS took $130 for a pair of boots and kept up a sham for almost a year, even claiming that production had started and we would see our boots in a few weeks (it was always just a few weeks away), and then abruptly vanished. So I hope whatever project the Matchstick team works on next pans out better for them.
Personally I'd be fine with transcoding videos on the fly from another machine to remove the DRM, but I suppose that defeats the purpose of a small hdmi stick if you have a full powered desktop running in the next room over. But really most of the stuff on my local netowrk doesn't have DRM and I don't do a whole lot of online streaming beyond Amazon Prime and I have an app on my TV for that. I suppose all I really wanted was screencasting without having to pay $100 for a WiDi adapter. Oh well.
But at least I'm getting a refund, so I don't suppose I have any ill will for the team. I have backed projects before that did a magic trick with my money - one shoe KS took $130 for a pair of boots and kept up a sham for almost a year, even claiming that production had started and we would see our boots in a few weeks (it was always just a few weeks away), and then abruptly vanished. So I hope whatever project the Matchstick team works on next pans out better for them.