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Two firsts in one day. The LED board drew real cards on its panel for the first time, and the new Android TV app ran on a real Google TV stick. Here's how the tests went, what broke, and what's next.
The 128x64 LED panel for the TCG Marquee board arrived today. Until now the board has been running blind, sending everything it would draw to a log. Here's what comes next to get real cards glowing on it.
The same TV app that's coming to Google TV is headed to the Amazon Appstore, so a Fire TV stick will be able to run your price wall. Here's what it takes to make it work on a small stick, and where it stands.
An Android TV app is on the way, so the price wall will run on Google TV, Android TV, and the Sony, TCL, and Hisense TVs that have it built in. Here's what it does, where it stands, and how to try it first.
The home page is new. It's dark, it glows like the board, and it shows TCG Marquee on every screen it runs on, with real screenshots of the web app, the phone app, and the Apple TV app showing real cards.
The LED panel on the home page now plays the week's biggest movers from real collections, with real card art, drawn by the same code as the board. And card pages no longer cut off the 30 day change when a card moves a lot.
Vendors who sell on Shopify will be able to connect their store and have their show table screen follow it: what's in stock, at what price. Here's what's built and tested so far, and what's still to come.
New comparison pages put TCG Marquee side by side with TCGVisor, Collectr, and Double Holo, including what each of them does better than we do. And the home page now names where our prices come from: Scrydex.
Price charts no longer turn a penny's move into a cliff. Touch or hover any chart to see that day's price. And set logos now sit next to the set name on each card, on set groups in your collection, and on the Apple TV.
I went through everything our price provider offers and put more of it to work: sharper card pictures, 90 day and 6 month changes, PSA population counts, graded price ranges, and set details for every game.
Any TCG Marquee display can now show your collection with no prices at all, binder pages and set progress included. Plus Japanese cards priced in dollars, removing cards in bulk, and pictures that load much faster on TVs.
TCG Marquee can now identify cards and graded slabs from your phone's camera, so you can scan a whole stack and add it in one go. Plus share images sized for Instagram's new layout, and more reliable email.
The collection now shows card pictures and opens each card with its price chart, the wall has proper controls and swipes on phones, new accounts see a sample wall, feedback is one tap away, and the site follows your phone's dark setting.
TCG Marquee now installs to your phone's home screen, has a bottom tab bar on phones, uses its real fonts everywhere, and can turn any page of your wall into an image to share.
TCG Marquee now has social accounts linked from every page, a private Discord for beta testers, invite reminders, and fixes for sign-in and email.
TCG Marquee got real accounts, an admin page, and invite-only signups, so beta testers can use the top plan for free while everything gets tested.
