Recent content by fabiosan

Absolutely yes. As long as it is $400 or less and has a battery that will last a typical work day.

Can you give an example of a restricted show?

According to this guy in the XDA forums (Chromecast in Canada! - xda-developers), most of the chromecast features work in Canada except for some Netflix content. He says that you should be able to get that to work as well by setting up the VPN directly in your router. EDIT: See #43 in the XDA...

Has anyone tested the Chromecast outside of the US yet?

I have a slingbox. Just trying to understand in what cases you would use it with chromecast since there is no point in accessing the slingplayer if you are home already. As you mentioned, you could access DVRd content using the slingbox while traveling and cast it to a hotel tv.

What's the scenario where you would want to use this? When you are at someone else house/traveling?

Check out the article in the frontpage. Some guy has developed an app that streams content from your gallery using the chromecast. Should be out soon...

Another reason to ditch the SD card concept :mad:

I bought a router that allows you to setup a vpn permanently on it. That way all devices on your network (including chromecast) will be working as if they were in america. I haven't tried it yet but the theory is sound...

There are several youtube videos with people demoing from a samsung arm chromebook (which I own) so it's seem like we are good.

Re: Chromecast Compatible Apps [23Jul - Play Music,Movies,Netflix,Hulu,Rdio,HBO GO] You can add AOL and Songza Android apps to the list. There are videos on youtube of their beta versions.

Ordered 2 from Google Play on 7/24. No shipping updates yet. Ordered 1 from Amazon on 7/24. Shipped today (7/25).

I ordered two through Google Play and another one through Amazon Prime. Let's see who wins the race.

"Google confirmed to WIRED that you could run Hulu, Rdio, and HBO Go right out of the gate." It just keeps getting better. "Chromecast is delightfully cross-platform. It works with Android and iOS phones and tablets, Chromebooks, and the Chrome browser for Mac and Windows. The original device...

I was about to buy the HTC tv mirroring dongle for my HTC One for $80 bucks. Thanks Google!