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With what kind of new features?
by dm2 11y ago
With what kind of new features?
- untog 11y agoI'd just take a general speed up - casting something is painfully slow for me (or was the last time I tried - much happier with my Roku)
- dyladan 11y agoI've had no such issues with speed. My chromecast is generally on by the time I've figured out what I want to watch and buffering is less than 15 seconds to start the video. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
- mscrivo 11y ago5GHz WiFi support
- jyrkesh 11y agoThis seems like such a minor thing to people who live in houses/rural areas, but I took home a Chromecast that is completely unusable for video because I live in a densely packed apartment building. My TV is RIGHT next to my router, but there's so many 2.4GHz networks and so much interference that Netflix buffers like crazy.
- dudus 11y ago4k playback is the only thing I can think of
- dyladan 11y agoPower over HDMI edit: - HDMI passthrough so I can use multiple devices without switching TV inputs. - Bluetooth for things like music streaming - Camera? (not sure how psyched I'd be about this but it could be cool) - Microphone (for voice commands without phone) - Native apps (Android apps?)
- PascLeRasc 11y agoHDMI 1.4 supports 50 mA @ 5V, I'm not sure if that's enough to power a Chromecast.
- dyladan 11y agoIt is sadly not (my current draw is closer to 300-400 mA at 4.8v). Even if it was though, the current chromecast doesn't have the hardware to support it.
- ankurpatel 11y agoHDMI CEC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC
- dyladan 11y agoChromecast currently supports HDMI-CEC
- _lce0 11y agowork offline?
- ohitsdom 11y agoThis. The current "phone home" setup makes it tough to deploy in many environments.