Chromecast

Chromecast can now play embedded YouTube videos on your TV—no need to mirror entire browser tabs any longer. Which is neat.

The Best Chromecast App Is Back in Action

Now that Google has finally opened up the Chromecast for developers, AllCast—pretty much the best Chromecast app you could ask for—is back in the game. Developer Koushik Duttapushed out an update early this morning that will let you push pictures and videos from your phone to your Chromecast with the greatest of ease. There are…

Chromecast Is Finally Going to Get the Awesome Apps It Deserves

Chromecast has always been great at what it does, but up until now it’s done fairly little. Compatible apps have been just trickling in, largely because Google has been hand-picking what devs even get to play with the $35 wonderstick. No more! Google’s opened up the Chromecast to developers everywhere. Finally, it should start getting…

Netgear’s HDMI Dongle Is Your Storage-Friendly Answer to Chromecast

While Google’s Chromecast might seem poised become the quintessential universal streaming device, it’s taking a hell of a long time to get there. So in the meantime, Netgear’s new NeoMediacast dongleis picking up where Chromecast left off by offering streaming content with Micro SD storage capabilities—assuming you’re an Android user, that is. The Miracast-enabled dongle…

Stream Videos From Your Android Phone to Practically Any Set-Top Box

The simple act of beaming something from your phone to a set-top box, like say a Roku, can be needlessly complicated. A new app called AllCast from developer ClockworkMod makes it super simple to view the photos and videos on your phone on virtually an connected TV platform. The AllCast demo video over on Google…

Google Chromecast For $30

The Google Chromecast, which happens to be the most popular item the Commerce Team has ever covered, is $30 at Amazon and Walmart right now. Amazon deal includes $6 Google Play credit. [Amazon] The Best Black Friday Deals The Best Black Friday Gaming Deals Follow Gizmodo Deals on Twitter to never miss a deal. Get in touch with Shane…

You can now stream HBO Go on your Chromecast, woo! And that brings your number of options to a whopping total of four. Come on Chromecast, keep up that streak.

Save on a Chromecast or Pebble Watch with a .edu Email Address

If you haven’t picked up a Chromecast for every TV in your home yet, Best Buy has one of the first discounts we’ve seen on the little dongle today. If you can furnish the site with a valid .edu email address, you’ll be able to pick one up for $30, or $5 less than retail.…

Google Chromecast continues to improve piece by piece; the streaming dongle added Pandora today to its small but scrappy stable of apps.

Google’s Chromecast wonder-dongle is now available outside the US! Order through Amazon, and you can have it shipped internationally, even though Google still isn’t formally offering it outside the States. [Amazon via DroidForums]

Did Amazon Just Trademark a Name For a TV Product?

9to5Google reports that Amazon has just trademarked the name Firetube in the U.S. and Canada. Is it a TV product? Seems to make the most sense. It’s not out of the realm of possibility; we’ve heard rumors of an Amazon streaming box before. Plus, Amazon already has plenty of content on Amazon Instant Video, and…

Hulu has finally added Chromecast support to its Hulu Plus app, which means you can gorge on Modern Family and Parks and Recreation to your heart’s content.

Is Mozilla brewing up a Chromecast competitor? This picture shared by employee Mark Finkle, showing tab mirroring from Firefox to a Roku, might hint at such plans. [Google+ via Engadget]

Google Says Local Content Could Come Back to Chromecast

Yesterday, Google upset lots of folks by pulling the plug on the most awesome aspect of Chromecast, the ability to play local content through a third-party app. Today, the company’s saying it was an inadvertent mistake, and that local content will stay. What gives? https://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643 Soon after Chromecast arrived, developer Koushik Dutta put together a…

Chromecast (With Three Free Months of Netflix) Is Back at Best Buy (UPDATE: Gone)

After this morning’s let down with Google hauling back Chromecast’s most awesome feature, dongle lovers have reason to smile again: Chromecast is once again available from Best Buy for $35 with 3 free months of Netflix. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643 Last time, this promo wiped out Best Buy’s supplies in short order, and led to some buyers missing…

Google Is Crippling Chromecast’s Best Feature

We love us some Chromecast, but it’s got its shortcomings. While there are more and more services snuggling up to ‘casting, the ultimate dream is being able to cast everything. We almost had a third-party app that could do exactly that, until Google put a stop to it. https://gizmodo.com/google-chromecast-review-a-little-dongle-with-big-pote-898743646 According to AllCast developer Koushik Dutta,…

Aircast Turns Chromecast into an Android AirPlay

Chromecast is great, except for the part where your streaming options are pretty limited. They’re getting better by the day, but soon, it’ll all be a non-issue; a new app called Aircast, can already push all your videos to Chromecast. https://gizmodo.com/chromecast-is-getting-vimeo-and-redbox-instant-and-may-961630039 Koushik Dutta has been working on stream-everything functionality for the Chromecast for a while,…

How to Turn an Old Android Device Into a Chromecast (Kinda)

If you failed to snap up a Chromecast, all is not (quite) lost: if you have an old Android device, running 2.2 or up, you can use Cheapcast to kinda sorta replicate the experience. https://gizmodo.com/google-chromecast-review-a-little-dongle-with-big-pote-898743646 Designed to ape Google’s dongle, it basically gives phones and tablets the ability to stream from Chromcast-friendly apps to another…

Stream Everything To Your Chromecast With This Clever Workaround

People are greedy. We just are. What we want is all the content. All the content streaming to our Chromecasts. And as the dog days of summer have slowly ticked by Vimeo, Redbox Instant and Hulu have been the main streaming services to promise apps for our precious little dongles. Which is great, but we…

Chromecast Is Back In Stock At Best Buy (Updated)

Google’s Chromecast streaming TV dongle is once again available from Best Buy (Update: it’s on 1-2 week backorder again). As before, the unit costs $35, with free shipping. With lots of capability and a steadily increasing list of streaming services supporting it, Chromecast sold out quickly when it first hit the market. If you were…