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I like being able to play movies without fiddling with a laptop. It's awkward because you'll want to immediately point the laptop away from you to avoid light s
by saturdaysaint 13y ago
I like being able to play movies without fiddling with a laptop. It's awkward because you'll want to immediately point the laptop away from you to avoid light spillage and unless you're on a Haswell laptop, you should probably worry about keeping it powered. Plus, selecting movies on the TV interface makes even choosing the movie a bit more social.
- tomkarlo 13y agoOnce the Chromecast starts playing a stream, you don't need to keep the controlling device turned on (or even in the house.)
- saturdaysaint 13y agoOnly for Netflix and Youtube. If you stream a Chrome tab, it still runs from your computer. Also, this still leaves open how one might download a movie and stream it to one's TV - I guess you'd have to upload the whole thing to Google Drive/Dropbox?
- tomkarlo 13y agoWell, for any service supporting the SDK, which presumably will continue to grow. (Play movies/TV as well, btw.) I don't think "downloading a movie" is a use that they've shown or discussed. It seems primarily like a device for showing streams of video content from the cloud, with a secondary capability of mirroring a Chrome tab. It's not a miracast device; it's more like an AppleTV that you control from your phone or computer.