Ahem. Google chrome cast. You guys are so June 2013.
Quote from: andyd on August 01, 2013, 04:35:30 pmAhem. Google chrome cast. You guys are so June 2013.Get with the programme Andy... chromecast £30, nowTV box £10.... (the chrome one will do more/be better but if you want a cheapy iplayer option...)
is chromecast available in the UK now and does it do iplayer?
Google’s new smart TV dongle Chromecast is getting more love from video publishers: Blip, Hulu, Vevo and Devour all have pledged to add Chromecast functionality to their platforms. But Google may not actually be ready to add too many apps just yet.Chromecast was announced last week with only a small line-up of native apps supporting the platform: Right now, Chromecast users can beam media from apps for Netflix, YouTube, Google Play Movies and Google Play Music to the streaming stick. A number of other publishers, including AOL and Pandora, will soon follow and, as we reported earlier this week, Vimeo, HBO and Redbox Instant were also preparing to launch on Chromecast.
I already have 7 plugs behind my TV.
That said, if as described it can stream your tablet or android phone screen to your TV, it might still be worth having.
well if it can stream the tablet screen, then just run iplayer fullscreen on that and share the screen ? i'm guessing that isn't supported otherwise you wouldn't need all these folk on board with their apps
This feature has a big "experimental" label slapped all over it, and it should—it's buggy, laggy and crash-prone. However, even in this rough incarnation, it's still a benefit for those odd occasions when you need to share your whole desktop with a room full of people. (Fingers crossed that it will only get better with time.) What you need to know: There's an important difference between tab casting and screen casting: Only the former can send audio. So if you play a video and screen cast it to your TV, the sound will still play through your computer's speakers, but not your TV speakers. And the video quality can be even laggier than tab casting.The takeaway: This feature seems most useful for looking at photo slideshows or displaying web pages. For now.