Chromecast

Deewon · 18 Mar 2014 at 15:30

Swarfega said:
They don't although you can stream from Google Drive's Presentations apparently.

Anyone tried or seen this in action yet?

I just don't want to have to stream a desktop, really looking to take a PC / Laptop out of the equation all together.

Swarfega · 18 Mar 2014 at 15:43

So do the presentation from a mobile device? I can try it later.

xb8browney · 18 Mar 2014 at 15:46

I'll be getting one from work for £22.50

Swarfega · 18 Mar 2014 at 16:33

Deewon said:
Anyone tried or seen this in action yet?

I just don't want to have to stream a desktop, really looking to take a PC / Laptop out of the equation all together.

Just tried this from the phone. No options for casting. Works fine though from PC.

Swarfega · 18 Mar 2014 at 18:49

£30 at currys

EYEREX · 18 Mar 2014 at 23:58

Just got one from the google web site

Swarfega · 19 Mar 2014 at 05:29

Awesome stuff. Can't wait to see what UK services start supporting it. Other than iPlayer of course.

macca672 · 19 Mar 2014 at 09:21

ordered mine this morning, can I just plug it straight into my onkyo or does it have to go into the TV?

MoRT489 · 19 Mar 2014 at 09:31

£30 @currys and Amazon. Going to pick mine up this morning, only thing I'm interested in really is mirroring so hopefully that will be out of beta soon.

EDIT: Reserved at 9:20 and by the time I picked it up at 10:00 all stock had been allocated with no new stock until end of next week :eek:

didn't realise it would be so popular.

Cosimo · 19 Mar 2014 at 09:31

macca672 said:
ordered mine this morning, can I just plug it straight into my onkyo or does it have to go into the TV?

Into the back of the TV:

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3212934?hl=en&ref_topic=3058948

Shug_06 · 19 Mar 2014 at 09:41

macca672 said:
ordered mine this morning, can I just plug it straight into my onkyo or does it have to go into the TV?

Yes, you can connected direct to an av receiver

TheKnat · 19 Mar 2014 at 12:34

Had 2 for quite a while and have family members who also use them. They all stream content from my Plex server, with use of Netflix and Youtube thrown in. I really can't fault them and they have worked seemlessly for me.

I've just been waiting for iPlayer support, which is now listed as a supported app yet it seems BBC haven't pushed out the update yet. Once this is done, I'll be using the Chromecast for about 95% of my viewing time.

haxxbaxx · 19 Mar 2014 at 13:44

you can get one from amazon for £25 delivered if you use the mothers day £5 voucher through facebook

Cosimo · 19 Mar 2014 at 14:53

Swarfega said:
Awesome stuff. Can't wait to see what UK services start supporting it. Other than iPlayer of course.

Apparently BT Sport has Chromecast links waiting in it's app.

TheKnat · 19 Mar 2014 at 16:07

Been watching live TV through the iPlayer all afternoon. Worked seemlessly.

That'll be my sky box getting turned off then

Swarfega · 19 Mar 2014 at 16:14

Interesting, there was something I read a while ago where Google didn't support live streaming. That's why Red bull app would only show prerecorded videos.

Cuchulain · 19 Mar 2014 at 16:15

TheKnat said:
Been watching live TV through the iPlayer all afternoon. Worked seemlessly.

That'll be my sky box getting turned off then

If you only watch BBC channels in standard definition why would you have even bothered with Sky in the first place?

TheKnat · 19 Mar 2014 at 16:36

Cuchulain said:
If you only watch BBC channels in standard definition why would you have even bothered with Sky in the first place?

I didn't. I used the sky box to receive freeview content because I have no aerial.

I should probably clarify that most of the time I only watch Cbeebies for the children and then the news on BBC1. All of my other entertainment comes from Youtube, Plex or Netflix.

Doco · 19 Mar 2014 at 19:11

Hmmm 30
quid...I'm quite tempted by it

Attu90 · 19 Mar 2014 at 21:15

I picked one up this afternoon, pretty happy with it so far, it would be nice if picasa worked with it though.