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The cool thing is now you can see video stored in your home from a hotel room (Provided if you take the chromecast dongle with you)
I used to love my Chromecast. It was one of those "it just works" pieces of technology. Unfortunately, after it auto-updated, it now has a bug where it will disconnect from WiFi after 30 minutes. Anyone know of a fix or has seen this behaviour before?
I'm not giving my kids the Nexus 7 every time they want to watch something on the TV screen. The Chromecast suddenly goes from a $35 to a $235 device. Instead I have a uHost android-stick that uses an accelerometer-based airmouse... it's not good, but it works and cost me $50.
I keep waiting for Google to complete the Nexus line with a bare-bones 4" low-quality phoneless device for kids - an answer to the iPod.
Anyone that has looked into the SDK - is it possible for other manufacturers to create their own Chromecast device, and embed it in their TV, or other device?
(Yes, I am aware that the Chromecast typically plays buffered video from the video source without running data through the controlling device and that having synced audio running on the device therefore is contrary to the design. I'm asking whether this limitation is surmountable by clever programming against the API.)
That'll be great. Currently there are services like Amazon instant video,Vimeo, Rdio, Spotify, Put.io are not on chromecast. They usually have Smart TV apps but Chromecast can be the new de facto of TV app development.
Plex, however, is on Chromecast.
I love my Chromecast and use it extensively. This is what Miracast should have been, something that "just worked" and seamlessly interconnected devices. But instead Miracast is yet another classic example of "death of committee" where tons of big media and hardware companies wanted to get their features and DRM in, and as a direct result we now have dozens of completely incompatible Miracast devices. I think this tab…
I have drunk the Apple Kool-Aid: I have iOS devices, AppleTVs, and a home server running iTunes. Admittedly, the iTunes server is serving video and music that is ripped from legitimately-acquired spinning-discs, so perhaps I haven't tasted the iTunes Store Kool-Aid.
I purchased a Chromecast right at launch. As far as I could tell, the only things it did well was Netflix and stream YouTube. However, for my purposes, the AppleTV was better at both, so I literally put the Chromecast in a drawer.
When someone announced a jailbreak for it, I took it out of the drawer, rooted it, fiddled with it some more, then put it back in the drawer when I realized I was just wasting my time.
I'm not trolling, here; I really want to know how you use it. Is it that is works better with Android devices? Is it providing a better, open, AirPlay alternative? I just don't understand how it is in any way more useful than existing STBs--if not the AppleTV then, e.g., a Roku.
Chromecast is missing one thing, imho: a controller for my kids. I'm not giving my kids the Nexus 7 every time they want to watch something on the TV screen. The Chromecast suddenly goes from a $35 to a $235 device. Instead I have a uHost android-stick that uses an accelerometer-based airmouse... it's not good, but it works and cost me $50. I keep waiting for Google to complete the Nexus line with a bare-bones 4" low…
How does the Chromecast work for someone like me that has their movie collection stored on a NAS? I currently use XBMC in my living room, but for the bedroom I'd love to have something like the Chromecast if I could use it to stream content (MKV, x264) from my NAS plus maybe some Netflix/Pandora. Is that possible with the Chromecast? If not, does this SDK open up more possibilities for playing local content vs. strea…
How does the Chromecast work for someone like me that has their movie collection stored on a NAS? I currently use XBMC in my living room, but for the bedroom I'd love to have something like the Chromecast if I could use it to stream content (MKV, x264) from my NAS plus maybe some Netflix/Pandora. Is that possible with the Chromecast? If not, does this SDK open up more possibilities for playing local content vs. strea…