![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. It doesn't do everything, but value for money wise, this is a bargain and I'm sure it's only going to get more useful as more apps start supporting it.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. It's $35, and delivers HD video and audio to my TV, direct from my browser and some apps too. Some other reviewers have noticed problems with delays or glitches with picture and audio reaching the Chromecast, but in my setup the computer, TV and router are all in the same room which I think overcomes the main culprit, a poor wifi signal. I presume the mobile version of Chrome will also include a cast button soon too. The Chromecast API has only just been released so I hope it won't be too long before the "cast" button is included in all sorts of apps. Very convenient.Īlthough Netflix and YouTube mobile apps have a Chromecast button built in, I'm not aware of any other apps that do yet. With the Chromecast I can now use YouTube from my computer, iPad or phone and press the button to play through the Chromecast on the TV. My TV also has a YouTube app but it's a bit more fiddly to search for content via the TV's remote control when you're only watching a 60 second video of lolcats. ![]() Same with Mr Selfridge, Endaevour, Downtown Abbey or other British shows on PBS. So if I want to watch Craig Ferguson on the TV, the Chromecast gives me an easy way to do so. I've been missing an easily watch content from networks like CBS and PBS, both of whom restrict a lot of their content to their own websites or apps. But while Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are an awesome way to watch stuff on demand through my TV their coverage isn't complete. I've not tested the Chromecast with services like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and Hulu as my TV already has those apps built in sorry, but it's still much more convenient to use a single device, or an optimised device like a Roku. I frequently sit on the couch using my laptop but wanting to use the home cinema speakers instead of the tinny (and tiny) speakers on the Macbook Air. I can even run Spotify's web app and play music easily through the TV. And it works! The picture and sound quality is great so whether it's a regular web page, or an online video site, I can stream it to the TV. Now I can cast any tab from my computer's Chrome browser, whether on a PC or a Mac. All of this was really easy and took just a few minutes. That did two things: installed the Chromecast application on my computer (to configure the device) and then installed the Chrome browser extension required for casting from the computer to TV. Then switch on the TV, and follow the on screen instructions from the Chromecast itself, which directs you to the setup website from your computer, phone or tablet. ![]() Plug into the TV, connect the USB cord for power, either to the supplied power adaptor or a spare USB port on your TV. So, $35 to solve even some of this, is money well spent in my opinion. Whether it's the inconvenience of cables (which are never long enough), getting the screen resolution set right, making the audio come through TV's speakers instead of the computer's, or just lack of a remote control, it's a never-ending world of hassle connecting the computer to the television. For years I've messed around with connecting my laptop to the big screen in the living room, and yes, it works, but it's always been a lot more fiddly than I'd like. ![]()
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