surfrock66 to [email protected]English • 1 month agoGoogle is discontinuing the Chromecast linewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square273fedilinkarrow-up1657arrow-down163cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish74•1 month agoMy Chromecast has no storage and no remote. It’s fine.
minus-squareSkaveRatlinkfedilinkEnglish60•1 month agountil they decide that their new device needs more sales, so they depricate the protocol and you can’t use it anymore
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-46•1 month agoDeprecate the casting protocol? Sure Jan. The new device still supports casting.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish61•1 month agoThey killed support for the first gen Chromecast and the YouTube “app” has been broken for 3+ years. They’ll just stop supporting it one day and you’ll have to buy a new one.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish36•1 month agoYou haven’t been paying attention to Google in the last few years, have you?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 month agoChromecast ultras are already broken if you try to use your own DNS.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoThat’s the only reason I had to replace my previous 2 steaming devices. The streaming backend got updated and the app in my device no longer supported it. And there was no updated app made available for that device.
My Chromecast has no storage and no remote. It’s fine.
Cool. Keep using it.
until they decide that their new device needs more sales, so they depricate the protocol and you can’t use it anymore
Deprecate the casting protocol? Sure Jan. The new device still supports casting.
They killed support for the first gen Chromecast and the YouTube “app” has been broken for 3+ years. They’ll just stop supporting it one day and you’ll have to buy a new one.
You haven’t been paying attention to Google in the last few years, have you?
Chromecast ultras are already broken if you try to use your own DNS.
That’s the only reason I had to replace my previous 2 steaming devices.
The streaming backend got updated and the app in my device no longer supported it. And there was no updated app made available for that device.
Until services stop supporting it.