Chromecast Now Open To Developers

[RallyMo]

The floodgates are open. This should be good.

[Jay]

I didn't know it was closed before.  No wonder the only thing that supports it is YouTube.

[mrwicked]

im curious how this pans out.

appletv will open its SDK soon too. 

[RallyMo]

Hopefully well. They've sold a good number of them there gadget doohickeys.

[nate]

I bought one today.  Hope for a VLC plugin soon.

[Count Orlok]

I didn't know it was closed before.  No wonder the only thing that supports it is YouTube.

It's had support for Netflix from the beginning and HBO Go for a few months now. I'm hoping for a screen mirror feature or something like Apple's airplay.

[Jay]

It's had support for Netflix from the beginning and HBO Go for a few months now. I'm hoping for a screen mirror feature or something like Apple's airplay.

That's great but who streams netflix to their tv from a mobile device? And if you're an HBO subscriber you already have a cable box. Give me something I can use.

[Make Angels Great Again]

That's great but who streams netflix to their tv from a mobile device? And if you're an HBO subscriber you already have a cable box. Give me something I can use.

 

Lots of people, it's quite convenient.

 

Imagine if your putting some movie on for your kids that they wanna watch, instead of fumbling around looking for the dvd you can just pull out your phone and throw it on the screen.

[Jay]

But netflix is already built into the tv's and blu-ray players.

[Make Angels Great Again]

Some people don't have TVs or blu ray players with that function.

[mrwicked]

chromecast doesnt actually stream anything from your mobile to the TV.

it doesnt have that functionality like airplay.

chromecast is just a way for your mobile to tell the TV what to stream. the chromecast just streams it from the internet.

for $25 or whatever its a good little gadget. 

[RallyMo]

chromecast doesnt actually stream anything from your mobile to the TV.

it doesnt have that functionality like airplay.

 

Actually, as of today...

 

http://liliputing.com/2014/02/allcast-updated-streams-anything-from-phone-to-chromecast.html

[mrwicked]

neat!

strange that chromecast didn't have native streaming.

downside is all that stuff (appletv too) goes through your router.

 

i think the next appletv hardware is going to have a router built in (basically appletv + airport express).

so then the hops aren't iphone -> router -> appletv -> tv, or internet -> router -> appletv -> tv

it would be iphone -> appletv -> tv, or internet -> appletv -> tv.

then they can prioritize apple content on your network. combine that with the huge CDN apple is building and they are set to become living room behemoth (basically what MS should have done)

 

good to see the SDK open up. 

this is where gaming is going too.

Edited February 4, 2014 by mrwicked

[gotbeer]

Actually, as of today...

 

http://liliputing.com/2014/02/allcast-updated-streams-anything-from-phone-to-chromecast.html

 

 

Now that there’s an official Google Cast SDK, Dutta says it only took about 20 minutes to add Chromecast support.

 

 

LOL.  20 whole minutes.

[mrwicked]

amazon is going to launch their own set top box.

its a lock.