[ale] EzCast vs Chromecast

[Boris Borisov]

Sunday Chromecast was $29 in BestBuy.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Raylynn Knight <seca900rider at gmail.com>wrote:

> Another good option is the Netgear NeoTV Max Streaming Player model
> NTV300SL
>
> *.  GPL Source code is easily available from Netgear and
> http://www.devttys0.com//?s=Neo+TV <http://www.devttys0.com//?s=Neo+TV> has
> instructions for getting root access using just the remote.  I'm just now
> starting to play with mine! *
>
> *Ray*
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:13 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Asked for and received a chromecast for Xmas. It doesn't do things that I
>>> expected, like playing **any** youtube video. Over 50% of the youtube
>>> videos I
>>> tried to play wouldn't. Pick any official Olympic 2012 video - won't
>>> play.
>>
>>
>> "won't play" as in you encountered a software malfunction, or "won't
>> play" as in you encountered a Youtube message saying the video isn't
>> allowed to play?
>>
>>
>>> Plus
>>> controlling it locked up the current app on the Nexus4 phone about 20
>>> times in 3
>>> hrs of testing.
>>>
>>
>> Which app(s) locked up? You reported it to their developers, right?
>>
>> Since plugging in my chromecast, I've had my living room devolve into a
>> "youtube party" a few dozen times when friends have been hanging out. All
>> told, perhaps 1000 videos (a hundred hours of video?) played, selected by
>> 30 different people from 20 different devices (mostly Android phones). Not
>> a single video failed/refused to play. Not a single device or app locked up.
>>
>>
>>> I suppose if you are willing to run Chrome on a PC (not me), then
>>> anything the
>>> browser can see, can be streamed. I wouldn't know.
>>>
>>
>> That is very much not how a Chromecast is meant to be used. The ability
>> to send video from your PC's Chrome tab to the TV is a very tacked on
>> thing, and not part of the purpose of the device at all. The chromecast is
>> meant to play media from the network, specifically from the internet.
>>
>>
>>> For more gotchas ...
>>> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2014/01/06/chromecast-what-good-is-it
>>> a blog article. With google being nasty towards independent developers,
>>> that
>>> turns the chromecast into a very specific device, for about 4 specific
>>> uses.
>>>
>>
>> What do you mean about being nasty towards independent developers? I
>> recall one story about an API change breaking an app using the beta SDK.
>>
>>
>>> If I wanted a DLNA client and didn't already have a game console, then
>>> the WDTV
>>> line is where I'd start.  I like to watch content from my network and
>>> don't want
>>> to fight with some 3rd party to make that possible (Roku/Chromecast).
>>>
>>
>> Google is not writing apps for the chromecast aside from the ones for
>> their services. There will be a DLNA client for the chromecast as soon as
>> someone writes one. If you feel like paying a few thousand dollars in
>> licensing fees, and some undisclosed amount per copy, feel free to publish
>> your own! No one is stopping you except the DLNA patent holders.
>>
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