AlNipper49 said:I got one for free with my phone and literally can't give it away its such a piece of shit.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/30/google-q4-2013-earnings-call/The numbers are out, confirming that, yet again Google's rolling in the dough. And on its Q4 investors call, Google informed us that, while ads still butter its bread, other sources of income are growing in importance -- non-advertising revenue essentially doubled in 2013, with $1.65 billion coming in the last three months, not counting Motorola, of course. That increase is due partly to a strong holiday season this year, powered by sales of Nexus devices (particularly the 5) and Chromecasts, and the Play Store continuing to move more apps and games.
AlNipper49 said:That it got a 8 in video quality shows you the depth of schmuck that they polled.
And of course it's selling well, it's $35. I bought two bottles of beer for about that much last week. If people want something decent to stream home media then they'll probably be willing to kick in the extra $25 for a superior device. You need to be functionally retarded to prefer a Chromecast over Roku (if you're not rolling your own). If you're a college kid who wants to play SE youtubes or watch Netflix (and be the only one watching it as you are controlling it with a phone) then it's probably fine.
How do I do that? I have an iphone 5Nite Vizhun UV said:Go into your phone's wifi settings and have it "forget" your chromecast as an available wifi.
cmac24 said:How do I do that? I have an iphone 5
Guapos Toenails said:I got one a month ago and i'm underwhelmed. I thought that you would be able to "cast" data directly to the dongle. I guess that's not how it happens. To cast a laptop browser, the data goes from the wifi hub, to my laptop, back over the wifi, and then finally it goes to the dongle. Maybe it's that the wifi in my house is wimpy, but there is a constant delay of 2-3 seconds to cast from my lappy to the TV. And it pauses and skips. Nip, does the Roku skip one of those trips over the wifi?
Red(s)HawksFan said:
I'm not sure that's the case if you are "casting" from a tablet or phone (I'll concede it might be the case with a computer). I "casted" a video from Youtube a couple weeks ago then had the Youtube app crash which caused me to lose control of the video (couldn't stop it). I went to the point of rebooting the whole tablet, trying to reset the connection to the dongle, etc. Through all that, the video kept playing on the TV without a blip. To stop the video, I had to reboot the dongle. It certainly gave me the impression that the video was going straight from the wifi router to the dongle without detouring through the tablet.
The wifi in my house sucks and the Chromecast is unusable in the room we were planning on using it in. It pauses for 2-3 seconds every 2-3 seconds. We switched it to a room near the router, and it works better.Guapos Toenails said:I got one a month ago and i'm underwhelmed. I thought that you would be able to "cast" data directly to the dongle. I guess that's not how it happens. To cast a laptop browser, the data goes from the wifi hub, to my laptop, back over the wifi, and then finally it goes to the dongle. Maybe it's that the wifi in my house is wimpy, but there is a constant delay of 2-3 seconds to cast from my lappy to the TV. And it pauses and skips. Nip, does the Roku skip one of those trips over the wifi?
Guapos Toenails said:I got one a month ago and i'm underwhelmed. I thought that you would be able to "cast" data directly to the dongle. I guess that's not how it happens. To cast a laptop browser, the data goes from the wifi hub, to my laptop, back over the wifi, and then finally it goes to the dongle. Maybe it's that the wifi in my house is wimpy, but there is a constant delay of 2-3 seconds to cast from my lappy to the TV. And it pauses and skips. Nip, does the Roku skip one of those trips over the wifi?
AlNipper49 said:
The Roku is basically a PC connected to your TV for the big stuff. If you are one of the rare people who wants to stream from you phone (inexplicably - it's a battery hog) then you can also do that and mimic how the Chromecast works. (I haven't tried it yet in full disclosure -- I prefer the Plex interface for most things)
Guapos Toenails said:I should have said that I love the casting capabilities from my phone...Google Music, Youtube, etc... That works beautifully. But I don't have my terabyte of home/kid movies on my phone. I was hoping that I would be able to cast to my TV from my home-network hard drive (via my laptop). I could do it for probably under $100 now, but I was hoping to do it for $35
941827 said:MLB.tv adds Chromecast support.
http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2014/04/plaaaaay-ball-now-casting-live-with.html?m=1
AlNipper49 said:I use Plex through Roku. The Chromecast is a horrid device, do yourself a favor and just buy something that works.
I'm still amazed what a shitty device the chromecast is.johnmd20 said:
Seconded. Either Apple TV or Roku is fine. ChromeCast is great b/c it's cheap, except for the troublesome fact that it doesn't work.
southshoresoxfan said:Ok so all I want to do is watch my pirated torrent .mp4s on my new Vizio smart TV...codec isn't supported on .mp4s over 30min long on either the PS3 Media Server or TvMobilo.
newer Samsungs will have a Plex app that you can install if that helpssouthshoresoxfan said:Thanks guys. Sounds like the wdtv live is getting first crack. As nice as apple tv looks i already have the smart tv w all those functions i just want to stream my personal collection
AlNipper49 said:If i were you I'd just throw the HD onto your PC, throw Plex on there and buy an older Roku for now. I'm guessing since we're dealing with codec issues that you're not looking at pumping out 1080p, so a gen2 Roku should suffice. Or if your Vizio is on the wall you can get a Roku stick.
That's what I did and it worked out perfectly.
I have a pc dedicated to it, but it also runs Sick Beard and Couch Potato which feed into SABNZBD. Once the files are downloaded they are dropped off in their final destinations (Sick Beard has a script that ties in with sabnzbd, Couch Potato scans a download directory). Plex then scans those directories every hours or so and when it finds something it downloads all trailers, cover art, theme music, etc automagically. It's really pretty insane at how tight it is.
ngruz25 said:I don't know if you guys are hilariously hyperbolic, or if Google has been pushing updates or something, but it works fantastic.