[ale] OT: Chrome cast

[James Sumners]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 05:20 PM, Robert Heaven wrote:
>>
>> When I first saw the advertisement for Chromcast I thought, wow this could
>> put Apple-TV and Roku out of business. Then, I looked at the specs and
>> realized, it is NOT a stand-alone devise like the Apple-TV and Roku. It is
>> nothing more than a Bluetooth receiver with an HDMI interface and, requires
>> the use of a special app on a smart phone or tablet. I suppose if you have
>> an extra tablet/phone you don't need and can leave it set up near your TV to
>> act as the streaming devise, it could be useful.
>
>
> NOT quite right:  the android device streams nothing.  It only controls
> (selects) what you watch.  the chromcast device does the streaming.


Exactly. Once you tell it what to stream, via whatever device, it does
the streaming all on its own. What's really neat is that I can start a
stream, e.g. a Netflix stream, via my iPad and then kill the app,
re-open it, and it'll pick right back up with the Chromecast progress
(i.e. knows it is streaming via the Chromecast and the progress bar is
correct).

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