Yet another Google’s creation. And this time it’s
Chromecast. Chromecast is a small, USB-powered dongle that connects to
an HDMI port on your television or a monitor. It uses the new Google Cast
screen sharing technology to show Internet content, as well as some local
content from devices running the Android, iOS and Chrome platforms.
The Chromecast is deceptively simple: you plug it into your
TV, then stream video and music to it from apps running on your iPhone, Android
device, or laptop. The Chromecast itself has no remote; whatever device you’re
streaming from is the remote. The Chromecast has next to no user interface of
its own, either; it’s got a single screen that shows the time and whether or
not it’s connected to your Wi-Fi that appears when nothing is being streamed,
but again, the device you’re streaming from largely acts as the interface.
The setup is simple. Download the Chromecast setup software
to a PC and the Chromecast controller app to an Android tablet and install it. Once
all these installations are complete, you are ready to get streaming.
There's also a Chrome extension that allows you to
mirror content from a Chrome browser tab to the Chromecast. This works a little
differently, because you're feeding the data that is being displayed on the
television from your browser to the Chromecast dongle. It appears that the
Chromecast takes the tab's data, but the content in the tab itself comes
from the Internet and not your computer. In other words, it follows the URL
path. This means that if you're playing local content in a browser tab, like a
video on your hard drive, you're sending it from your computer to the
Chromecast. This means you can basically put any site or service on TV with
just the click of a button.
Chromecast is definitely a cheap solution to get content
from the web to the television without any wires or hassle.
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