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I’m incredibly anxious about this.

Chromecast is core to how my family’s television usage works. I got a free Chromecast recently and it’s a much worse UX than the ones I got many years ago.

What I wish for is for the ubiquitous Cast button found everywhere to be open and neutral and for there to be a whole market of devices that’ll work. It feels frustrating and kind of ugly that there’s an Apple version and a Google version, etc.

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I am taking a look at the Nvidia shield, which also uses the cast button. I have 3 Chromecasts that need to be replaced, but the cheapest Shield is $150!!

I guess each time Google kills something and I remove one more part of my life from their ecosystem they are doing me the real favor.

Tivo Stream is $40 and works a treat - it's Android TV based https://www.tivo.com/products/stream-4k

Being only $40 I’m highly suspect that I’m the product, not the customer.

They are hoping you will subscribe to their streaming service, but it works just fine without subscribing to theirs. It also aggregates multiple streaming services into a consolidated guide rather nicely.

Not as nice as Channels DVR (which also lets you record streams and will strip commercials), but one of the nicer streaming boxes for the money.

> What I wish for is for the ubiquitous Cast button found everywhere to be open and neutral and for there to be a whole market of devices that’ll work

Sonos, take note.

Why, so they can patent it and sue everyone?

Oh so that's why I can't cast to my Sonos speakers?

I thought they just couldn't work out how to make casting work, like how they still haven't figured out RSTP.

my next step after my chrome cast stops working is going to be a raspberry pi connected directly to the projector.

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