Amazon Echo?

[ProAttitude]

Great little gift.

Might be a stretch; however, its another piece of the puzzle to ultimately cut the cord on cable.

What is your opinion?

 

[EweSeaEff]

Amazon...Amazon...Amazon...

 

[Sir Galahad]

Amazon...Amazon...Amazon...

Gave these as gifts to my staff, got a lot of "what does it do?"

Answer, not sure

 

[brahmanknight]

Great little gift.

Might be a stretch; however, its another piece of the puzzle to ultimately cut the cord on cable.

What is your opinion?

Sorcery, witchcraft, and likely un-American.

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Yea these look like silly trinkets to me

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Anyone have chrome cast? What does it do, I haven't really cared enough to read about it. I just found out today my newish phone won't cast to my TV without it. Looks like Google has turned into Apple.

 

[UCFWayne]

Anyone have chrome cast? What does it do, I haven't really cared enough to read about it. I just found out today my newish phone won't cast to my TV without it. Looks like Google has turned into Apple.

Love my chromecast. Use it all the time with my phone to watch youtube videos on my tv. Also use chrome browser on home tv, so I can stream that way as well.

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Anyone have chrome cast? What does it do, I haven't really cared enough to read about it. I just found out today my newish phone won't cast to my TV without it. Looks like Google has turned into Apple.

Similar to Wayne above. Verizon FIOS nickels & dimes you for > 1 TV connected to it so I use my chromecast to put things from my phone to the TV easily. It was handy for the "debates" for example pop on the CNN or FoxNews app & good to go

 

[brahmanknight]

Love my chromecast. Use it all the time with my phone to watch youtube videos on my tv. Also use chrome browser on home tv, so I can stream that way as well.

Similar to Wayne above. Verizon FIOS nickels & dimes you for > 1 TV connected to it so I use my chromecast to put things from my phone to the TV easily. It was handy for the "debates" for example pop on the CNN or FoxNews app & good to go

Why don't you guys just cast directly from your phone to the TV? I do that with my phone, ipod, tablets and computers. I could see the appeal of if the TV isn't yours.

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Why don't you guys just cast directly from your phone to the TV? I do that with my phone, ipod, tablets and computers. I could see the appeal of if the TV isn't yours.

It seems newer android products don't allow you to cast without chromecast, I don't know if they're in that situation. My old GS4 casted without anything but the Nexus doesn't allow it without chromecast or rooting the phone.

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Yeah no clue how to do it wirelessly w out chromecast for a pure mirror.

Chromecast fails w some stuff especially from certain websites of questionable legality so I go with HDMI cord for them

 

[brahmanknight]

Ah. My Nexus 7 runs Android 6, but its a 2013 build ( the last build for Nexus 7 so far ).