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by stormbrew
1836 days ago
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The #1 use case for 'casting' with a chromecast in my house is absolutely to stream from online services to my tv or monitor while controlling it from a device that would melt or run down its battery if it tried to act as a go-between for the data, or had to potentially re-encode data from its storage to what the tv can support. That's still the niche that chromecast fills better than anything else at a price point that means you can buy one for every tv and monitor in your house for the cost of a more fully featured device with storage on one or two tvs. Sadly google seems to hate the chromecast and even their own software gets worse at casting to it every year. |
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Yeah, I've always been amazed at how unreliable and broken the Chromecast software seems to be (for me, at least). I feel like Google really missed an opportunity here.
If this hadn't been the case, I personally would have purchased more of them and, importantly, recommended them to many people. But, after a couple tries (gen. 1 and gen. 2), I gave up.