Google Chromecast – Google Makes Web TV Look Easy with Chromecast - Pentagon Post
Different electronics design houses have tried to bring the Internet into the normal living room with some failing and others succeeding in creating systems too complicated to appeal to the common sense of the regular user. After suffering the same fate after the fatal release of its Google TV platform in 2010, Google reenters the market with its Chromecast and hopes to use the popular HDMI ports to drum some sense into our primitive television sets.
Google’s Different Approach to the Problem
Google’s approach is different. Instead of struggling to get Internet connectivity and all the brilliant processing powers into the TV, they have opted to pack it in this compact $35 gadget and then connect it to the TV via the HDMI port.
Once connected, you can stream live content from the web, for instance, live YouTube clips, stream from Netflix or Google Play, or even mirror content from you Google Chrome browser using the tab caster. With the tab-casting feature, you can literally send any web-based content, from images and videos to entire web pages, to your TV at the click of a mouse. This in essence is what other manufacturers struggle to bundle inside their sets with little or no success.
Though not Out of Space, the Chromecast is Better than what is Already on the Market
However, Chromecast is not something out of space. Other devices with almost the same functionality like Plair, Roku3, and Apple TV plague the market. Chromecast would however end this ‘plague’ courtesy of Google’s good relationship with content providers and developers and the relatively low retail price of the device.
In what seems as a justification to this prediction, Google has had to drop its three-month Netflix promotion as thousands of customers flock their shops to secure a Chromecast for their HDMI compatible television sets. The market’s enthusiasm in adopting the Chromecast is more than what Google needs to intensify its efforts in delivering where others have apparently failed to excel in.
Even though Chromecast will not magically transform your TV into a computer, it will significantly boost its functionality by connecting it to the Web while giving you mobile remote to help you better utilize what the Web has to offer on a much larger screen.
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Different electronics design houses have tried to bring the Internet into the normal living room with some failing and others succeeding in creating systems too complicated to appeal to the common sense of the regular user. After suffering the same fate after the fatal release of its Google TV platform in 2010, Google reenters the market with its Chromecast and hopes to use the popular HDMI ports to drum some sense into our primitive television sets.
Google’s Different Approach to the Problem
Google’s approach is different. Instead of struggling to get Internet connectivity and all the brilliant processing powers into the TV, they have opted to pack it in this compact $35 gadget and then connect it to the TV via the HDMI port.
Once connected, you can stream live content from the web, for instance, live YouTube clips, stream from Netflix or Google Play, or even mirror content from you Google Chrome browser using the tab caster. With the tab-casting feature, you can literally send any web-based content, from images and videos to entire web pages, to your TV at the click of a mouse. This in essence is what other manufacturers struggle to bundle inside their sets with little or no success.
Though not Out of Space, the Chromecast is Better than what is Already on the Market
However, Chromecast is not something out of space. Other devices with almost the same functionality like Plair, Roku3, and Apple TV plague the market. Chromecast would however end this ‘plague’ courtesy of Google’s good relationship with content providers and developers and the relatively low retail price of the device.
In what seems as a justification to this prediction, Google has had to drop its three-month Netflix promotion as thousands of customers flock their shops to secure a Chromecast for their HDMI compatible television sets. The market’s enthusiasm in adopting the Chromecast is more than what Google needs to intensify its efforts in delivering where others have apparently failed to excel in.
Even though Chromecast will not magically transform your TV into a computer, it will significantly boost its functionality by connecting it to the Web while giving you mobile remote to help you better utilize what the Web has to offer on a much larger screen.
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