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SUBMITTED BY : RAHUL BA

Contents
What

is Chromecast ?

History
Specifications
Key

Features and Operations

Plug

And Play

Everything

You Love on TV

Chromecast
Pros

Apps

And Cons

Chromecast

review : Streaming media on home

What is
Chromecast?

Chromecast
It

is a thumb-sized media streaming device.

plugs into the HDMI port on your TV.

Simply

use an Android phone, tablet, iPhone, iPad, Mac or

Windows laptop, or Chromebook to cast your favorite
entertainment and apps right to the big screen.

History

Chromecast was announced on July 24, 2013, and made available for purchase
on the same day in the United States for US$35, along with a limited-time
promotion for three free months of Netflix.The Google Cast SDK was released on
February 3, 2014, allowing third parties to modify their software to work with
Chromecast. According to Google, over 6,000 developers were working on
10,000 Google Castready apps, as of June 2014.

Chromecast was favourably received by tech critics, who praised its simplicity
and potential for future app support. It was the best-selling streaming device in
the United States in 2014, according to NPD Group, and it sold 10 million units
globally that year. Since the product's launch, it has handled more than a billion
stream requests. Google's second Google Cast receiver, the Nexus Player, was
released in November 2014.

Specifications
Developer

Google

Manufacturer

Google

Type

Digital media player

Release date

July 24, 2013; 19 months ago (United States)

Introductory price

US$35, 30

Units sold

~10 million (2014)

System-on-chip used

Marvell DE3005-A1

Memory

512 MB RAM DDR3L

Storage

2 GB

Display

1080p

Connectivity

HDMI (can use CEC), Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n @ 2.4

GHz)

Dimensions

72 35 12 mm (2.83 1.38 0.47 in)

Weight

34 g (1.2 oz)

Key Features and

Operations

Chromecast is a dongle that plugs into the HDMI port of a high-definition television
or monitor. The device connects to the Internet through a Wi-Fi connection to the
user's home network. Chromecast offers two methods to stream content to a
television

The first employs mobile apps and web apps that support the Google Cast
technology.

The second allows mirroring of content displayed by the web browser Google
Chrome running on a personal computer.

Content can also be mirrored from a tab of the Chrome browser (with the Cast
extension) on a personal computer or from the screen of some Android devices. In
the case of "tab casting", the quality of the image depends on the processing
power of the device, and minimum system requirements apply to video streaming.

Chromecast Apps
PC*

Android

iOS

Windows
Phone

1.FM Online Radio

No

Yes

No

No

1.FM GmbH

Audio

2048 4 ChromeCast

No

No

Yes

No

Portable Ltd

Game

2048 for ChromeCast

No

No

Yes

No

Local Network
Media

Game

2048 for ChromeCast

No

Yes

No

No

TalkLittle

Game

5by

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

StumbleUpon

Video

9x9.tv

No

Yes

Yes

No

PurpleComm

Video

Air Show HD

No

No

Yes

No

Splitmo

Multimedia

AirMusic

No

No

Yes

No

Plutinosoft

Audio

AllCast

No

Yes

Yes

No

ClockworkMod

Multimedia

Name

Vendor

Type

Chromecast Apps
Name

PC*

Android

iOS

Windows
Phone

Vendor

Type

Ameba TV

No

Yes

No

No

Ameba TV

Video

Anime Lib

No

No

Yes

No

Dasist
Entertainment S.L.

Video

AOL On

No

Yes

Yes

No

AOL

Video

ArcadeCast

No

No

Yes

No

Portable Ltd

Game

Artkick

No

Yes

Yes

No

Artkick

Photo

Audiour

Yes

Yes

No

No

Audiour.com

Audio

Audioviz

No

No

Yes

No

Caramba

Audio

Avia Media Player

No

Yes

No

No

Videon Central Inc. Multimedia

BBC iPlayer

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

BBC

Multimedia

Pros and Cons

Pros
Fairly
Easy

Cheap
To Use

Reliable

Netflix
Streaming

Portable
High

Defination
Video

Cons
No

direct
streaming
from
phones/tablets
.

4K

video not
Supported

Chromecast review:
Streaming media on
home

Streaming of media on the home network is more problematic. There's no

easy way to stream video content or music stored on your PC a Chrome
browser extension called Videostream claims to make this possible, but
failed in our tests on two different PCs. The free Plex media-server software
is also nominally Chromecast-compatible, but we found performance to be
very sluggish on our home wireless network, to the point where streaming
video was almost unplayable.

One final issue of note: Google's privacy notice says the company "may
collect system activity, crashes, and other details about how you use
Chromecast, including use of apps and domains (but not full URLs)
accessed by Chromecast". As ever with Google, your lifestyle habits are
being beamed back to the borg.

Thank
You..!!