Google Chromecast
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- HijoDMaite0
Love these things, we have one in every bedroom. The quality of the HD is perfect on any Netflix YouTube or Vimeo videos. Also pandora works perfect.
I can play something from my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and still use my phone to browse the internet and use any other app on my phone, not sure about a phone calls though. I do not notice a battery drain on my phone while watching shows ether. We have been using these more often since a couple of our "smart" TV's have a real clunky user interface when trying to use Netflix.
Last night before bed my wife and I were watching the 2014 news fails compilation youtube vid from vid of the day thread and in the middle of it I got up with the phone, went downstairs and out to my car in the driveway to grab something. I figured it would stop transmitting and drop the connection but five minutes later I went back in the bedroom and the video was still playing seamlessly. Impressive!
Also we picked up four of these during cyber monday for $22 each!
- Chromecast has been playing through my iPhone for 3+ hours. Only 3% battery usage.organicgrid
- This is because it actually does not stream from your device. It acts as a remote and tells Chromcast what to fetch from internet.GRAC
- internet. Try using Youtube with 2 devices. You can set up queues etc...pretty cool.GRAC
- streaming video buffers a minute or so in advance - so if you were only briefly outside it would have no effect. if you had stayed outside longer it would have.fadein11
- sorry I was referring to when you lose connection on YouTube or something - it will play for around a minute before stopping.fadein11