Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Strick – Review

Smart TV, which is the receipt of additional services via wireless LAN or on a television, have become part of many models for basic equipment. Simple flat-screen televisions or older devices but do not offer this feature. So you have to buy a new telly if you want to take advantage of Smart TV?

No: For little money, there is in the commercial media player or sticks, which you then to your TV via Wi-Fi and receive content from the Internet and play them on the screen.

Also, Google has apparently discovered the potential of this technology and has recently launched the Chrome Cast on HDMI Stick – for now.

The Chrome Cast are now available to buy in online shops. A small box in which besides the Chrome cast stick an HDMI extension cable, a USB charging cable and an AC adapter and a brief installation instruction are located. Since it is officially the stick only in the U.S., Google currently supplies only a U.S. power adapter – which of course does not fit local power outlets. Therefore, you also need a USB power adapter, unless your TV has a powered USB socket.

Installation

The control of the Chrome cast is completely smartphone and / or tablet PC. Therefore, you first download the actual corresponding app for iOS or Android and install it. Insert the next step is the USB charging cable to the drive and connect it to a free HDMI socket on the TV. Should it go tight on the back of your TV, please use the supplied HDMI extension? The USB connector is a USB socket of the TV set, do not have this. You plug the cable into a USB power adapter – done.

Now switch the TV remote control to the HDMI input on which depends the Chrome cast. There, see the Welcome screen. Call now on the app and connect the drive via WiFi with your smartphone or tablet PC. Then enter a name for the stick and pair it permanently to your wireless network. Have you found that, Chrome Cast first loads possibly a software updated downloads and installs automatically? After a short time appears on the TV screen ” ready to cast ” – the stick is ready for your input.

Chrome Cast: Top Operation.

Likewise, foolproof as the installation of Chrome cast is also its operation. Using the app, you bind any one of many sticks and are capable of living in the other content on the TV show than about the nursery. Even within the compatible apps and services, there were no problems in the practice test. Within seconds they stream for example a youtube video: Call the YouTube app, Choose Video, coupled with a tap smartphone or tablet with the Chrome Cast – running. It really could hardly.

Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Strick – Conclusion

Followed by the joy of the simple operation – disillusionment. It soon becomes clear why Google has not sold the Chrome cast stick with us. While users in other regions via Chrome Cast as ” Netflix ” – and watch ” Hulu ” videos on old flat-panel TVs without built-in online connectivity, Google offers this country the only access to their own services.

Specifically: With Chrome cast so far only for German user’s access to YouTube, the Chrome browser as well as music and movies from ” Google Play ” . This is it, not even stream videos from the home network or the display of photos that are saved on your smartphone and / or tablet PC.