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by teekert 4011 days ago
Too bad it makes me have to move my flat tv 10 cm of the wall. An HDMI connector at an angle would have been nice (or I could buy an extension HDMI cable of course.).
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Devices like this usually come with a very short HDMI extension for exactly this reason.
Many flatscreens nowadays have ports that are facing to the sides, so those people would've had a problem with an angled connector. I'd rather have power over HDMI to get rid of that annoying powercord to the stick :)
The forthcoming Google Chromebit has a clever design that pivots so you can choose if you want the connector straight at the end or at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the stick.
Yeah for that reason the Apple TV or Fire TV form factor is better.
The HDMI stick form factor works for the majority of TVs which have their ports facing to the side.