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I personally use a combination of Xbox and Chromecast, which is plugged into the hdmi-in for Xbox. Almost all of the popular services like netflix, prime, hbo,
by me551ah 5y ago
I personally use a combination of Xbox and Chromecast, which is plugged into the hdmi-in for Xbox. Almost all of the popular services like netflix, prime, hbo, Twitch, Disney etc are available on the Xbox as native apps. For the odd ones which don't exist Chromecast works well. Xbox even has the Kodi app so you can point it to your FTP/WebDAV server and watch movies from there. I personally use a seedbox and stream from there on the Xbox Kodi app. As a bonus, Xbox is also going to get the full fledged chrome browser soon.
- anonymfus 5y agoWhat is the point of using Chromecast when Xbox can work as a Miracast receiver if I understand correctly?
- andrewia 5y agoIt's far more bandwidth-intensive to stream from the internet to a phone screen and again from a phone screen to a Miracast receiver. You also can't use the phone screen nor see notifications while Miracast streaming. With Chromecast, the dongle is actually just a remote-less streaming stick. So it streams directly from the server and the streaming app on your phone is the remote.
- rezonant 5y agoIn addition to better efficiency, it also means that multiple devices can act as remotes at the same time, and if the original person who started the stream leaves the WiFi network the stream is not disrupted. It's definitely the more sensible way to handle streaming from cloud services- I just wish it would get standardized as a web standard so that it's not limited to the Google ecosystem
- rezonant 5y agoWhat apps even support Miracast?
- InsaneOstrich 5y agoI love my original Xbox One. It has all the apps, a blu ray player and the hdmi in for a cable box or anything else you want. It's sad to think that it's unlikely that anyone will ever make anything like that again