Google Chromecast
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- utopian0
Which will come first?
• Chromecast will be obsolete by the of the year
• It fail just like the rest of Google products
and be part of Google Graveyard
- tasty0
I got mine a month ago. Sadly it's not the device i though it would be, but then again it's $35 and the hardware is in place while they make upgrades.
Here's my experience so far:
- Streams extremely well from youtube- I have no idea how to stream from the Google music or video, and I thought that would be where it excels
- I got a web plugin for chrome on my laptop because I wanted to share a webpage or a streaming video outside of youtube to my screen and the lag is unreal. This is where it fails drastically.
- Have used it about 10 times, mostly because I think the youtube experience works nicely. But I'll continue to stick with my HDMI when streaming anything from other video sites.
- yeah I'm assuming it will only get better over timedbloc
- dbloc0
just bought one...$35 why not?
- ESKEMA0
I read somewhere that Google disabled some feature on purpose and that it wasn't that great. but don't know any of it for a fact.
ATV is awesome. with Beamer App or VLC Streamer, it gets anything to play from my mac to the TV and I don't even have to get my ass up.
- duckseason0
Curious if anyone ended up getting one of these and what their thoughts are.
- ernexbcn0
@fadein11 I bought a flat TV back in 2005 when I bought the Xbox 360, the thing isn't a "smart TV" so no USB ports or streaming functionality built in.
I bought a Boxee box a few months ago and use that to stream from my computers or AirPlay.
- hereswhatidid0
This will be hacked within months to be showing any kind of content. I'm betting XMBC will be streaming to this shortly.
- ideaist0
- If they had a full browser on it or even a more capable iOS; it seems it's going that way...ideaist
- ...I guess the goal is to limit the device and keep all content "in the cloud", thus eliminating physical importance...ideaist
- Why would they add a browser? When has that ever worked for a TVanimatedgif
- not good - works but too lacking in features - like Fisher Price streaming.fadein11
- there's nothing fischer price about it, and it has a fuck load of featuresmonospaced
- Apple TV seems way more powerful than chrome cast. If I didn't have a Mac i could see itjtb26
- mg330
A friend who is a total Apple hater dubbed this "Apple TV killer" while being too ignorant to know that Apple have big things coming to the next version of it.
- animatedgif0
Not bad but not that interested in the stuff it can stream and the dependance on another device.
If it had a USB port for a hard drive then I'd be interested
- ernexbcn0
"So if you have music you wish to play on your TV, it need to be uploaded to Google Music"
- if you have any photos or videos on your computer or phone you'd like to play, you're shit out of luckmonospaced
- Supports Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, as well as anything on the web through Chrome browser.ORAZAL
- Yes, but NONE of your stuff on your devices or computers.monospaced
- ernexbcn0
Also on Amazon US:
- monospaced0
Cool, looks like a right nifty device!
I still think it's hilarious how Google keeps stepping on its own feet with this area of tech though. They had early Google TV units, and then the Nexus Q, and now this. Seems fragmented, no?
- unless they work together, in which case it would be coolmonospaced
- but I highly doubt itmonospaced
- What I love is how this thing actually controls the TV it's plugged into and turns devices into remotesmonospaced
- Basically they're iterating on their concept until they have something that works. I think it's great they keep cranking out products.zarkonite
- OSFA0
VANT!!!
- ernexbcn
Nice little device.