I recently wrote about using Android TV on your PC. How about watching TV on your phone? It’s pretty easy. Go to the app store, depending on your phone, and search for a TV app. Many stations have apps now, so search for your favourite channels.
These are my recommendations, but only because I was able to get them to work on my ancient “Galaxy J3 (2018)” Android phone: Pluto TV, Plex, Tubi, and CBC Gem. There may be more that I haven’t tried yet. You may have to sign up and log in. Content may vary from border to border. Free apps also mean “ADS”.
So you download the apps, watch your program and the screen is too small. What if you want to watch these programs on a slightly larger screen like your TV?
My TV is 42 inches, but it is not a Smart TV, and I like it that way. But that means no network access. My phone is a “Galaxy J3 (2018)”, and the charging port is shot. That’s the hole at the bottom where the USB cables plug in. I had to buy a special adapter to charge my battery. Read here.
I remember seeing a little hack to transfer your phone screen to your TV. Not sure where.
I will set my Android up to play a show, in this case, “The Drew Carey Show”. FYI, this show is broadcast through the Plex app.
Now I need a wire to hook my “Sony Cyber-shot” camera to my TV. It has a mini-USB plugin on one end that goes into my camera and two composite plugins on the other. The “White” is for sound and the “Yellow” is for video. Those get plugged into the TV.
Now the hard part. My cable is a bit too short and trying to get the phone and camera line up just right is not as easy as I thought it would be. So I started up the TV app and set it up so that my camera could be used to send feed from the phone through my camera to the TV.
That yellow in my picture is a sponge. I cut it to sink my phone in to hold it steady. Then I set my camera up facing my phone and turned it on. There is a physical switch on my camera to select between “photos” or “videos”. I set it to videos. When I have my camera hooked up like this, I don’t see any images on the viewscreen.
The result. I had to use another camera. The picture quality is not great. Sorry. I am now seeing what is on my phone on my TV.
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