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Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by tsunamifury »

ryandrake wrote: post #21
inanutshellus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TODAY I got an email saying my $600 robot vacuum cleaner -- which only works via an app -- would no longer work with said app. It has no physical buttons to manage schedules, just a "spot clean now" button. I hand-wrung when I bought it -- knowing it was a risk requiring I trust them -- aand I was bitten. Awesome. Welcome to the future.

Nobody on HN wants to hear this, but REG-U-LA-TION. The glorious free market is consistently failing to solve the growing problem of cloud-tethered and app-tethered products being nerfed by their manufacturers after the point of sale.

I think those who believe regulation is universally the devil forget the era where products were received DOA and customers had no recourse while companies simply called it profit.

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by jansper39 »

looperhacks wrote: post #18
inanutshellus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TODAY I got an email saying my $600 robot vacuum cleaner -- which only works via an app -- would no longer work with said app. It has no physical buttons to manage schedules, just a "spot clean now" button. I hand-wrung when I bought it -- knowing it was a risk requiring I trust them -- aand I was bitten. Awesome. Welcome to the future.

You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/

Reading through that site, it seems like instead of locking yourself into a corporations app, you're locking it into his instead. He doesn't seem to want to run an open source community, he's building an app for himself and publishing it for people who have exactly the same use case as him.

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by hollerith »

koinedad wrote: post #3

Not sure the full motivation behind this but this is very annoying for a parent with kids. Especially if you've lost your remote, or want to quickly find something and cast it to your Chromecast/Apple TV. I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay.

>I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay.

Do you mean required by law?

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by inanutshellus »

looperhacks wrote: post #18
inanutshellus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TODAY I got an email saying my $600 robot vacuum cleaner -- which only works via an app -- would no longer work with said app. It has no physical buttons to manage schedules, just a "spot clean now" button. I hand-wrung when I bought it -- knowing it was a risk requiring I trust them -- aand I was bitten. Awesome. Welcome to the future.

You may want to check if your robot is supported by Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/

ooo thanks for the link, buuut it appears NEATO Robotics vacuums aren't supported ... yet.

I had hoped Home Assistant might be able to handle it but it appears their integration just sends the data to NEATO, which no no longer works.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/neato/

Blarg.

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by happymellon »

hollerith wrote: post #33
koinedad wrote: post #3

Not sure the full motivation behind this but this is very annoying for a parent with kids. Especially if you've lost your remote, or want to quickly find something and cast it to your Chromecast/Apple TV. I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay.

>I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay. Do you mean required by law ?

Required by store?

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by Razengan »

lunias wrote: post #22

I don't understand Netflix's decision, but I'm long past caring about things like this. I've had PCs hooked up to all of my televisions for the past 15+ years because of how limiting and frustrating using any other device to play media from can be.

BitTorrent → Local Media Player App

Still the best way to watch movies and shows.

Even if we pay $100 dollars every month to streaming services they will never not be too dumb to know how to make a convenient player that isn't hostile to its users.

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Post by fireflash38 »

lunias wrote: post #22

I don't understand Netflix's decision, but I'm long past caring about things like this. I've had PCs hooked up to all of my televisions for the past 15+ years because of how limiting and frustrating using any other device to play media from can be.

That's also rather shit, unless you're using a prescribed browser and operating system.

We've rebuilt cable boxes, but somehow they're even shittier than before.

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by bryanlarsen »

gnarlouse wrote: post #19

Netflix is fucking its business up by trying to be a studio IMO. The service was perfect when they were a streaming platform. The studio arm's script selection and production quality makes me want to gauge my eyes out. When you pay an arm and a leg every month for Netflix, you're funding a studio that pumps out the equivalent of screeching goblin sounds. Makes no sense.

Did they have a choice? In the beginning the studios gave them access to their catalog for cheap. The studios understandably stopped doing that.

Re: Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

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Post by jerlam »

Kind of wild that Netflix is (or believes) it is so far ahead of all the other streaming services that they're nickel-and-diming their customers for every little feature.

Other services were aggressively throwing Black Friday sales in order to boost their subscriber counts. I picked up HBO for 70% off, and there were also Hulu and Apple TV discounts. And I didn't need any of them because there's plenty of ad-supported content on YouTube, Tubi, and other services.

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