[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

Will get the link to an Anandtech article for those interested in technical detail.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Anantech review....how do you use this little thingy?

Google Chromecast Review - An Awesome $35 HDMI Dongle

by Brian Klug on July 29, 2013 9:45 PM EST

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So I have a confession to make – I didn’t hate the Nexus Q. While I didn’t necessarily love it and use it daily like a small minority of my peers did, I also didn’t immediately declare the product an unmitigated disaster like the vast majority of people. The fate of that product was so quickly decided that I hadn’t even begun writing my review when the whole thing was terminated. When I spoke with Googlers about Nexus Q, what was obvious to me was that the Q had begun as an audio-only product that later on had HDMI added, and that tiny bit of context made all the difference in understanding the choices behind it. I left the Nexus Q plugged into my AV Receiver up until the most recent set of Google Play apps killed functionality entirely.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks. I don't plan on purchasing this product, since I
watch only evening news on the boob tube. I don't even allow
my Verizon FIOS modem box to allow any WI FI transmission as well.
But clearly. It looks like this is going to be a very popular technology/product for many to purchase.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. This product looks like a cross between “me-too” and “solution in search of a problem”.

I thought I’d like the Boxee — but the setup was a POS, and the config interface was a POS, and the tuner wasn’t configurable unless the box was hooked into the www first. THAT was moronic. A quick search just now turned up two things, one, the company (or those assets anyway) were sold to Samsung; and two, there’s a gadget called SimpleTV that appears to offer a similar, cloud-based DVR thing.

I guess none of these companies has ever heard of Roku. My only bitch about any of the streaming boxes (including Roku) was and is, no digital tuner for local broadcast channels. And my bitch about Boxee was their incompetent approach to the idea.

Google Chromecast offers more questions than answers
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/31/technology/innovation/google-chromecast/