Google Chromecast 2015

Advantages: Simplicity. Happiness is in simplicity.

Disadvantages: The downside of simplicity is limited functionality. It cannot be the brains for usb drives like an android whistle. It is impossible to raise a server or run a stand-alone OS on it.

Comment: An excellent device for a not particularly demanding user. What he can do well. It actually knows how to: Broadcast chrome tabs (IMHO is of little use, but it is declared as the main function) Play content purchased in the Google store. Broadcast video via DIAL protocol (google / YouTube, daytime, etc.) Show on-air TV, for example, SPBTV application on android. DIAL is friends Broadcast local video from PCs / laptops / NAS / droids if you use the Plex package. Moreover, if the video format is not supported by chromcast, it is re-encoded by the host on the fly into a digestible format. The feature of this device is convenient and intuitive control. Connection and configuration will take 5 minutes, after which a DIAL icon will appear on compatible sites directly in the player by clicking on which a list of chrome casts on the home network will drop out. You click on the desired one, and he turns on the TV himself, switches it to broadcast from his HDMI and starts playing (HDMI-CEC). From a mobile phone or computer from the same network, you can pause, skip or make it louder / quieter. In this case, in the case of DIAL, the chromecast is connected directly to the source and the phone works as a remote control without draining the battery. If you want to watch a movie or TV series from your computer to your PC and Plex mobile phone, connect through one account and broadcast to your health. Whether from the next room, or from another continent. Plex on a computer controlled from a pocket device via the Network will transcode the movie into the desired format and transmit the stream directly to the Chromcast over the local network / Internet.

Advantages: Addition: - I learned how to broadcast my videos - I need to install a program like Local cast (but it puts my phone down a lot) - I learned how to broadcast videos from the Internet (except YouTube). I need to open the site from the Google Chrome browser - I stopped downloading video content. Now I look directly. It is important that the Chromecast connects directly to the Internet and does not drain the phone (you can even turn it on) - it allows you to pause and play back video with a regular TV remote control

Disadvantages: - there is no native application for broadcasting your video to TV. Local cast, etc. either paid or with ads.Plus, it seems not stable (but it worked fine for me so far)

Comment:

Advantages: Works without lags and problems

Disadvantages: No

Comment: I have had a large LCD TV for over 10 years. At one time it was the top Sony model. The picture is still gorgeous. It makes no sense to change it, but technology is moving forward ... In recent years, smart TV has appeared. And all these years I've been trying to upgrade various android and non-android media players. For several years, about 6 set-top boxes were purchased. I also bought cheap ones of the order of 2-3 thousand and quite expensive ones for 8-12 thousand, but everything worked poorly. They hung up, did not show the desired content, lost contact with the TV, etc. All this was apparently happening, since mostly these gadgets are produced by little-known Chinese brands. This one works like a clock, program updates arrive every month. Shows everything. A bunch of programs and every day there are more and more of them. Shows video content without ads. Very satisfied. Recommend. I have already bought three pieces. I put two houses and one more in the country.

Advantages: - Cost - Functionality - Initial setup - Appearance

Comment: The device is just wonderful for those who want to make their Smart TV Smart, or for those who have the old NedoSmart. Can be in Full-HD quality: 1. Cast such applications as Youtube, TwitchTV, Google Photo, Google Drive and a whole bunch of other things. 2. Cast ALL content from your phone. 3. Cast content from the Chrome browser, and this is starting with Internet content, ending with local videos and music, which can be thrown onto the chrome tab and sent to Chromecast. 4. Cast content from media servers such as Plex and the like. By the way, you can control the playback with the TV remote control. 5. As a bonus, there are tons of toys that work in custom mode ... for example tennis, where you use your phone as a racket; monopoly, where each player has a remote control - this is his phone, and the main screen transmits a TV. The thing is just breakthrough! You can, of course, get confused, buy RubsberryPi and set up a media server through it, but it will turn out to be more expensive and perhaps not with all the Goodies of this device.

Advantages: I have been using it for a couple of months, in the end I completely abandoned the Chinese tv box.

Disadvantages: Didn't reveal. But you need a mobile to control. Instructions for use are below. The first connection and update is almost automatic with the "home" program. (I do not paint as everything is extremely simple). Below are instructions for using a device already connected to the WiFi network.

Comment: Briefly instructions for those who have just bought and don’t know how and what: To work with mobile and transfer video, you need allcat or Localcast. we take on w3bsit3-dns.com. the latter is more stable. For subtitles, if necessary, it is registered as the program requests for advertising. we go separately into the browser using the link seen and register. 2 minutes for everything. After entering the username and password from subtitle.org, everything will work like clockwork! The scheme of playback on a TV set is simple: open, for example, HD videobox, tap on the movie and play it, choosing localcast as the player. And in it is your chromecast. All download went. The mob is no longer needed. Pause and play work on TV distush if there is hdmi cec support. With torrent tv, the same simplicity, but the mobile will act as a server here and will be in operation (put it on charge)). I will not paint YouTube. It's simple. Now stream from your computer: In chrome, put the videostream for google chromecast plugin. start from "services".it will launch whatever you point to tv.

Advantages: Functionality, stable operation, WiFi 5MHz support, integration with Chrome on all platforms (the ability to broadcast a tab, including video in full screen mode), and from Android 6 (the ability to broadcast the entire tablet screen).

Disadvantages: For some reason, it did not work out the first time - the devices did not see the prefix. I had to do a reset - the second time it worked.

Comment: I took SmartTV to organize the house. It works great, I connect from PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones - through Chrome, you can also broadcast movies in online viewing from any site, and connect online TV, and watch TV channels. How it is packed is a separate topic - my wife almost shed tears when I showed the packaging. iPhone nervously smokes on the sidelines)) Google - as always on top!

Advantages: Everything corresponds to the declared properties. Setting stuck-yes-yes-yes-it worked. There are many applications to choose from, I liked Tubio, which allows you to play any video from the network at all. The picture quality is excellent, easy to control for the most uninitiated. The wife figured it out in 7 seconds.

Disadvantages: I don’t understand what’s wrong with the sound. It is there, but somehow strange. Warm lamp as if)) too warm and too lamp. Turn it on, you will understand.

Comment: Excellent stuff, I recommend. I haven’t tried to manage it from a laptop under Windows yet, but if it works, then you can forget about shdmi wires. Cheers cheers.

Advantages: 1. Excellent quality wi-fi connection. 2. Beautiful screensavers 3. Simultaneous control from a tablet and a phone 4. Compactness, minimum of wires. 5. After sending the video to the device, you can safely use the tablet-phone for your own purposes. At least turn it off. The video continues to run. 6. Brand famous, quality too.

Disadvantages: 1. There is no additional USB port for a flash drive and there is no internal memory. But this, in principle, is compensated by the memory on the tablet, computer, laptop in the cloud. After all, you can watch what you have inside your gadgets, and not just on the Internet. At the same time, do not bother with codecs, if you see this on your screen, then Chromcast will show it on TV. 2. No auto power off. Left overnight with the TV off, the dongle is warm. There is a certain button on it, and the ice indicator is two-color, for which it is not written. It has not been possible to find out yet.

Comment: I doubted for a long time and chose between media players, sticks, China on Ali, Rock on Amazon and so on. I watched the connection via a miniUSB-HDMI cable using the MHL protocol, there is a Sony tablet z. But I stopped at Google Chromecast 2015. 1. It's a brand, so the quality should be up to par. 2. Already too lazy to search for the latest films on torrents, copy, wait, transfer, and then suddenly the format is not supported by the media player. You can watch the network online and not bother with storage, it would be a good internet. 3. We noticed the same claims to media players: there is not enough power, the firmware is crooked, the browser on the Internet slows down. All of the above are the advantages of Chromkast. Wi-fi +++ I have a TV in the back room, where the speed of Wi-Fi even on a tablet is 10 times less than next to a router. So Chromecast hangs even further behind the TV-screen for wifi. To my surprise, everything goes without brakes and constant loading of the buffer, only at the beginning. The three antennas inside the Chromic are power. Now on the applications: A. On ivi there is support for Chromecast, but not a single movie could be sent, he says that it is this video that they cannot broadcast to a remote screen. I wrote to technical support ivi. On Megogo, the same films go perfectly in HD through Chromik on TV. B.IPTV, among the applications there are clients Lazy IPTV, IPTV from Sofronov, and there are Spb IPTV, PeersIPTV services. You need to enter your playlist into the client, but the services have it. But all this garbage, there are no necessary channels, and there is a lot of garbage on the air. There is no STS, TNT, TV1000, etc. And with Khromkast not everything is perfect yet, there is a button, but the control does not go to the upper bar, then you have to look for what you are looking at and where. B. Web Video Cast, a browser that hosts the video on an online cinema site. If their player does not support Chromecast, it doesn’t matter Web Video Cast to help. D. Google Cast - screen broadcast. Not very convenient, it can slow down, the quality is worse. This is a triple load on Wifi. D. ES Explorer. So much for your flash drive. Although not everyone likes codecs. E. Others

Advantages: - really FullHD - fast, convenient

Disadvantages: - few applications - advertising on YouTube remains, you can turn it off only from the phone, that is, the playlist will not be able to play in the background

Comment: Google Music / Movies / Photos, YouTube, Netflix, Ted - actually all applications. There is also a screen broadcast, it works fine, by connecting a gamepad to the phone, you can play games quite well)

Advantages: 1. Convenient youtube control from your phone. Actually for this and bought; 2. The ability to add videos on YouTube to the queue is really convenient; 3. Fast enough work with YouTube; 4. High-quality assembly.

Disadvantages: 1. If you broadcast a Google Chrome screen mirrored from a computer, then a slight delay is noticeable (especially noticeable on the mouse cursor). But I don't think that this is a fundamental point, given the purpose of this device.

Comment: I liked this model. But you need to deal with the functionality, tk. it is quite extensive (there are many programs on google playmarket that work with this device). I bought this product on 08/07/2017 (order No. NSB-RPR004662). The only thing I didn’t like was that it was not indicated anywhere (neither on the website of the online store, nor at the time of purchase) that an adapter with an American standard plug is included in the kit - this is very inconvenient given that there is no adapter in the kit. The box is sealed, I could not see it when I bought it, and the seller did not mention it. Be careful and check the completeness when buying (Euro standard or some others).