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Will this bypass the need for a Hulu Plus subscription for TV watching? Hulu plus allows you to watch Hulu on a big screen device in addition to tablets.
I think people aren't understanding how awesome this technology is: 1. Every time someone shows you a YouTube video, you spend 10% of your time watching it and the other 90% thinking about that one video you know of that's funnier. With Chromecast, you can queue that sucker up for nexties right from your own phone, without interrupting the video that's currently playing. 2. Chromecast does NOT use the resources of th…
>This is a game changer. Completely agree. This is potentially an incredibly disruptive innovation. Provided third parties (TV Networks, Vimeo, etc.) write apps for this, I think it will radically change the way people watch TV. No-one wants another box with another clumsy interface. They just want to watch what they see on their phone or laptop on a better screen. Wow.
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If your t.v. has an HDMI port it more than likely has a USB as well. Not a big deal.
Actually, many (perhaps even most) TV USB ports don't provide power (or good enough quality power) for anything beyond basic thumb drives. It's also possible for ports not to offer power unless the right handshake is made by the device. Also, some TVs have a USB port which is only for diagnostic use, and can provide unsteady/harmful power output. However, I'm guessing this device ships with a USB cable + wall wart fo…
I'd really prefer wired gig-e, though. 802.11n is borderline for a busy network with several video streams. At that point I'd end up running a bunch of separate wifi APs, which raises the cost to where real wired devices start to be cheaper again.
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> You're still looking at the TV while fiddling with the phone. The experience should be completely on your phone. But the people sitting with you also get to see the search results come up, and together you can decide what previews to watch, etc. This is how it works in my household, and wouldn't work as well if the phone was where all the UI action is, with the TV solely a dumb display.
The TV doesn't have to be blank while you do this. You could be searching on the phone and seeing results (best for the searcher), and the TV could solely show results (as opposed to half the screen being taken up by a ridiculous keyboard). Best of both worlds.
It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays.
It would be pretty slick if you could get a simple http proxy to support screen mirroring like this, because then it wouldn't matter what combination of set top box / phone / tablet you have... you could mirror anything.
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I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use, and will work with almost all apps on her iPad that play video (and audio). That includes all the built-in apps and nearly all store-bought apps. There's a strong possibility your mother's soaps are being played in a way that's unsupported by the Chromecast.
> I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use But it's made by Apple and will require you to install iTunes and iCloud on everything you own and it will only work if you throw away all the equipment you already own and replace them with Apple-made devices. That's potentially quite a grab of money. But that's just the smallest cost: The only reason ever to buy Apple is if you're willing…
iTunes is not required. iCloud is not required. Your comment is a troll.
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Amazon how has them in stock. I have prime, but I assume it's free super saver shipping for > $25, and no taxes (collected) in many places.
Well that was close.... I also have prime so I figured I might get my chromecast quicker if I cancelled my order from google store which I made 4 hours earlier (I went with cheapest shipping). Click through the confirm prompts to cancel my order from google. Click to buy from amazon, expected delivery date: 22nd of August. Arrrrrhhhhhhhggggggg Flick back to the google store tab and find that it has declared that I co…
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I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use, and will work with almost all apps on her iPad that play video (and audio). That includes all the built-in apps and nearly all store-bought apps. There's a strong possibility your mother's soaps are being played in a way that's unsupported by the Chromecast.
> I realise it's twice the price, but an Apple TV will be much simpler to use But it's made by Apple and will require you to install iTunes and iCloud on everything you own and it will only work if you throw away all the equipment you already own and replace them with Apple-made devices. That's potentially quite a grab of money. But that's just the smallest cost: The only reason ever to buy Apple is if you're willing…
(Side note: I'm an open source zealot, my e-mail address ends in @gnu.org, and my primary laptop runs Debian GNU/Linux. I also own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. I like having options too.)
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Does the docs say that the audio is only stereo? Is that a product limitation or an HDMI limitation?
Nope. I don't see anything about the audio at all. I just know that for my setup, whenever I plug anything into my HDMI port on my TV, I get stereo audio. It could be that my TV doesn't handle the audio decoding properly, but I imagine that it isn't exclusive to my Toshiba.