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Not sure how related this is, but my parents have a one or two year old Samsung "Smart" HDTV. It doesn't have Chromecast built in, but it does have Youtube, Net
by spike021 10y ago
Not sure how related this is, but my parents have a one or two year old Samsung "Smart" HDTV. It doesn't have Chromecast built in, but it does have Youtube, Netflix, and a few other "apps".
I thought it was really cool one time when I was visiting during a SpaceX launch and experimental sea landing because I was able to swap from watching live via Youtube on my laptop to casting it to their HDTV. That was just by pressing the cast button and selecting their TV, which was automatically in the list without me doing anything.
It's awesome that Google's made this more convenient and I think it'll be something useful for a lot of people.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoThose are YouTube-specific hacks, as I understand it. My Oppo Blu-Ray player also shows up as a cast-to destination in the YouTube application, but it doesn't show up anywhere else that has the casting ability.
- kevincox 10y agoI believe that this is the DIAL (http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/ http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/) protocol. I know Netflix and YouTube use it, as well as I presume others. Personally I don't think it is as cool as Google Cast as it requires an app/server installed on the target, where as Cast can open any website.
- spike021 10y agoOh, in that case I had no idea what I was talking about. Still a pretty useful 'feature' in any case. Carry on...