- Now we've been talking about streaming services
a lot over the last few months.
But today,
we're gonna talk about streaming devices
and we're starting with this one right here.
The Chromecast.
It is unique,
it's been a solid mainstay of the streaming world now
for several years.
Question is whether it's still worth it.
Well,
it's certainly worth giving away.
So we're gonna be giving away five of these things,
coming up at the end of the video.
So I hope you'll stick around for that,
to hear about the giveaway rules.
Now, we're gonna do a full review on the Chromecast,
coming up in a few weeks.
But for now,
I'm learning a lot about it
and I wanna give a full review.
But first, we're gonna talk with Mike,
from the Mike O'Brien channel,
to give us his top three favorite things
that a Chromecast can do.
So hopefully you'll stick around for that.
Let's get started.
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Now of course before we get to all that stuff,
I just wanna encourage you to subscribe.
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Because we are here every Wednesday and every Friday
with a new video.
Hope you'll join us for those as well.
But for today,
we are talking about the Chromecast.
And, like I said, I'm bringing on Mike
from the Mike O'Brien channel.
Mike, I understand you've got three top things
that a Chromecast can do
that somebody who is just kinda getting started on it,
might wanna know about it.
- [Mike] Yeah, absolutely.
So I got my Chromecast, you know, quite a while ago
but I started using it with Google Home recently.
And so, the top three things right here.
The first one is definitely the ability to go on your phone
and actually change the personal ambience.
So the ambience is going to essentially
be like the screensaver,
or whatever's showing when you're not on your TV.
So if you just go into the Google Home app right here
and scroll down to the TV that you want,
at the bottom you see right there personalized ambient.
And it's really cool how you can change
any slideshow you want
or, I do is I go to Google Photos
and I chose an album of mine.
So these are my top trips I'm gonna go on
next year so, you know,
pictures of like your (mumbles)
and wherever I plan on going,
just to get you psyched about the trips you're going on.
Of course these can be family pictures
or literally, anything you want
to show up on your screen.
Now the second thing that's really cool with Google Home,
if you have one,
is the ability to sync it with your Chromecast
and literally talk to it.
So it'll play whatever you want.
So I could literally just say
Hey Google.
Play Stranger Things on Netflix on my TV.
- [Google] Sure.
Stranger Things from Netflix.
- [Mike] And just like that,
it's gonna start playing on your TV.
Now the third thing that's really cool
that a lot of people might not know about actually,
is for those apps that don't quite work as smoothly,
as maybe YouTube and, you know, Netflix,
you can actually go on your laptop
and go into the browser,
if you're using Google Chrome.
And, click on the top right here
and you can actually go to Cast.
So you can cast anything that's on your browser
if you're hosting a meeting,
if you wanna show Facebook,
you wanna show some kinda blog,
or Amazon.
There's so many different options.
You can cast your entire screen to your Chromecast.
It's gonna be like a remote desktop.
- That's perfect.
Actually the third one is one of my favorites
because in my earlier research with the Chromecast,
one thing I know that is really frustrating
is that you can't get an Amazon Prime app to watch video.
And, for obvious reasons, the companies are kinda feuding.
And so they don't want to give each other the apps
and all that stuff.
But, there is that workaround using the screencast,
where you can go into your phone
and, you know, play an Amazon video.
And just screencast to your TV.
If you have the bandwidth available to be able to do that,
it's one way to work around that.
So, yeah, love em.
Thank you Mike.
So, what we're gonna be doing,
Mike and I are teaming up.
I want you to go down to the comments below
and click on the link
because I'm actually appearing on a video with Mike,
on his channel as well.
And here's what we're gonna do.
We are giving away five of these Chromecasts
and all you need to do is subscribe to both channels.
Our channel and Mike's.
And also comment on both videos.
This one and the video that we've linked to
in the description below.
If you do that,
and you've got one week to do it,
then you are entered to win one of these five Chromecasts.
We're very excited to give em away.
So we want you to take advantage of that.
Anyway, hopefully you guys will stay tuned as well
because like I said,
in the coming weeks I'm gonna be doing a full review
of the Chromecast.
Exactly how it works,
how it fits in with the rest of the,
with the rest of the device landscape
out there for streaming.
So stick around for that.
And we will see you guys on the next review.
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