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  • #62
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    jamesd wrote: »
    Just got this
    Hello,

    We're writing about #103-2710213-Xxxxx for Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player. We recently learned of an error that allowed this item to be available to ship to international addresses. Unfortunately, this item is not currently intended for use outside of the United States. Outside of the United States, all of the functionality of this item may not be available and the manufacturer's warranty is void. We're sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

    You don't need to take any action if you still want to receive the item. If your order hasn’t shipped yet, you can cancel it by going to Your Account and clicking the "Your Orders" button:

    http://www.amazon.com/your-account

    If your order has shipped and you would like to return the item, you'll find return instructions at the link below. We'll refund you in full, including the return shipping costs.

    http://www.amazon.com/returns

    We hope to see you again soon.

    Sincerely,
    Customer Service Department
    Amazon.com

    Blast it anyway...was just about to order this....yaargh!


  • #63
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    They stopped taking orders for it yesterday..


  • #64
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭jamesd


    Mine has shipped since yday anyways so looking foward to it.


  • #65
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    It's available on ebay for ~ €45 - with fast shipping.

    And possibly available elsewhere. I like it, but I honestly wouldn't pay more than €30 for it. (I may have said that already).

    It's not any different to this or other devices, (If you just want the simplicity of streaming from phone/device to TV)


  • #66
    flynnlives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭flynnlives


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    what's the issue(s) with it?


    not compatible with the firmware on the older eircom routers, mine was the zxyel router

    I tried messing with setting etc to no avail.

    Rang them up and asked for the new router.

    Other had the same issue here
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057034693

    works no bother with the newer eircom router.


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  • #67
    txema
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭txema


    Allyall wrote: »
    It's available on ebay for ~ €45 - with fast shipping.

    And possibly available elsewhere. I like it, but I honestly wouldn't pay more than €30 for it. (I may have said that already).

    It's not any different to this or other devices, (If you just want the simplicity of streaming from phone/device to TV)

    They are simmilar, but not exactly the same; with the Chromecast your phone acts as a remote controller and once you have the Chromecast streaming content you can use the phone for other things.
    With Miracast (the standard used by the product linked) your TV becomes a mirror of the phone, so you can't use the phone to surf the web or do other things while the streaming is playing.


  • #68
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    txema wrote: »
    They are simmilar, but not exactly the same; with the Chromecast your phone acts as a remote controller and once you have the Chromecast streaming content you can use the phone for other things.
    With Miracast (the standard used by the product linked) your TV becomes a mirror of the phone, so you can't use the phone to surf the web or do other things while the streaming is playing.

    Yep, agreed, I have the Chromecast. But with Miracast devices you can watch home movies, movies on your network, Movies on your Phone, or streaming sites like vimeo or metacafe etc.., or using apps like BubbleUpnP you can watch a movie, listen to music and take calls on your phone/multitask.

    No denying that Chromecast is good.


  • #69
    groom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭groom


    Allyall wrote: »
    Yep, agreed, I have the Chromecast. But with Miracast devices you can watch home movies, movies on your network, Movies on your Phone, or streaming sites like vimeo or metacafe etc.., or using apps like BubbleUpnP you can watch a movie, listen to music and take calls on your phone/multitask.

    No denying that Chromecast is good.

    I've had both.
    Chromecast is great at what limited things it is currently intended to do.
    Miracast was disappointing.

    I found the Beta Chrome tab mirroring feature of Chromecast to be rough but I still found it better than Miracast


  • #70
    razor12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭razor12345


    I got one of these but it ain't doing what I needed it to do (my fault for not investigating it more thoroughly). If anybody wants it for €50 PM me, I'm in Dublin 12 and will mail it to you in Ireland if necessary. It works fine.


  • #71
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Just got my shipping email from Amazon.


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  • #72
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,707 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    razor12345 wrote: »
    I got one of these but it ain't doing what I needed it to do (my fault for not investigating it more thoroughly). If anybody wants it for €50 PM me, I'm in Dublin 12 and will mail it to you in Ireland if necessary. It works fine.

    PM sent


  • #73
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Just got an email from Fastways saying my chromecast is in Cork and will be with me in max. 2 days :D


  • #74
    jamesd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭jamesd


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Just got an email from Fastways saying my chromecast is in Cork and will be with me in max. 2 days :D

    Me too.


  • #75
    smackyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭smackyB


    Just got it, thanks OP!

    QGKeKiL.jpg


  • #76
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    What do we do now? :o


  • #77
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    What do we do now? :o

    Get your smartphone, plug Chromecast in to your TV.
    Watch Youtube, Subscribe to Netflix, Choose a VPN to watch US subscriptions.


  • #78
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,707 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Guys, sill question, but I assume if you want to watch netflix, you load it up on your phone and basically push it to Chromecast? It uses your own home wifi, and not the phones internet connection?

    Also, netflix related, can you use the same account on more than one device at the same time? My daughter watches it a massive amount, as do I, but both on the same device (google TV). If I get the chromecast for her room, can she watch it on the same account, and me on my googleTV at the same time?

    Thanks


  • #79
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    antodeco wrote: »
    Guys, sill question, but I assume if you want to watch netflix, you load it up on your phone and basically push it to Chromecast? It uses your own home wifi, and not the phones internet connection?

    Also, netflix related, can you use the same account on more than one device at the same time? My daughter watches it a massive amount, as do I, but both on the same device (google TV). If I get the chromecast for her room, can she watch it on the same account, and me on my googleTV at the same time?

    Thanks

    Yes for Phone + WiFi. Yep, for more than one device.

    Yep to all :)


  • #80
    philthrill69
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 665 ✭✭✭philthrill69


    Hey guys I got mine yesterday and if I'm to be completely honest I'm totally underwhelmed and disappointed.
    I know I should have read the recent reviews and opinions but one of my buddys was in the states and I rushed in.
    I read early reviews where there was a work around so you could cast local images and videos off your device.
    I set mine up last night and connected my phone and all I could do was play a YouTube video. Big whoop di do!
    I don't watch Netflix and I tried to cast a Web page from my chrome browser and found out that I can only do that from my laptop. Does this gadget have any practical uses?


  • #81
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    when Google allow 3rd party apps it should become much more useful The development kit has been out months and there are lots of apps ready to go, everyone is just waiting on Google to open it up.


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  • #82
    groom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭groom


    Allyall wrote: »
    Get your smartphone, plug Chromecast in to your TV.
    Watch Youtube, Subscribe to Netflix, Choose a VPN to watch US subscriptions.

    Not without some DD WRT router workaround


  • #83
    groom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭groom


    philthrill69 wrote: »
    Hey guys I got mine yesterday and if I'm to be completely honest I'm totally underwhelmed and disappointed.
    I know I should have read the recent reviews and opinions but one of my buddys was in the states and I rushed in.
    I read early reviews where there was a work around so you could cast local images and videos off your device.
    I set mine up last night and connected my phone and all I could do was play a YouTube video. Big whoop di do!
    I don't watch Netflix and I tried to cast a Web page from my chrome browser and found out that I can only do that from my laptop. Does this gadget have any practical uses?

    I've had the same problem with my microwave. It doesn't let me stream local content either. I wish I'd read what it was designed to do before I bought it.


  • #84
    Mr Bloat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Mr Bloat


    philthrill69 wrote: »
    Hey guys I got mine yesterday and if I'm to be completely honest I'm totally underwhelmed and disappointed.
    I know I should have read the recent reviews and opinions but one of my buddys was in the states and I rushed in.
    I read early reviews where there was a work around so you could cast local images and videos off your device.
    I set mine up last night and connected my phone and all I could do was play a YouTube video. Big whoop di do!
    I don't watch Netflix and I tried to cast a Web page from my chrome browser and found out that I can only do that from my laptop. Does this gadget have any practical uses?

    I want one and missed the boat on this so if you are looking to get rid of yours, let me know.


  • #85
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    groom wrote: »
    Not without some DD WRT router workaround
    OpenWRT or Tomato or Gargoyle.

    Orbot.


  • #86
    philthrill69
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 665 ✭✭✭philthrill69


    groom wrote: »
    I've had the same problem with my microwave. It doesn't let me stream local content either. I wish I'd read what it was designed to do before I bought it.
    Well if I bought a microwave with a grill and read reviews on it about how good the grill function was and then on the strength of this went out and bought one a month later only for morphy richards to come to my house and rip the grill out of it then I also wouldn't be happy.
    Great analogy though, to compare a device that at one stage could stream local media to an appliance that heats up your dinner.
    Slow claaaaaaaap.


  • #87
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    philthrill69 wrote: »
    Well if I bought a microwave with a grill and read reviews on it about how good the grill function was and then on the strength of this went out and bought one a month later only for morphy richards to come to my house and rip the grill out of it then I also wouldn't be happy.
    Great analogy though, to compare a device that at one stage could stream local media to an appliance that heats up your dinner.
    Slow claaaaaaaap.

    Save your slow claps. This device could never stream local media. It was never advertised that it could. What there was, was a hack that allowed it, which was patched up by Google. You bought something without understanding what it's capabilities were and are now complaining that a hack you heard about online doesn't work.

    I imagine that this will eventually allow local media streaming, whether that is via Google or another hack.


  • #88
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,679 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    antodeco wrote: »
    Guys, sill question, but I assume if you want to watch netflix, you load it up on your phone and basically push it to Chromecast? It uses your own home wifi, and not the phones internet connection?


    Wait a minute.....do you need your laptop to watch netflix?

    Does the CC not just plug into the HDMI slot and access Netflix straight away? Don't tell me you need to load netflix on the laptop first!!


  • #89
    groom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭groom


    noodler wrote: »
    Wait a minute.....do you need your laptop to watch netflix?

    Don't tell me you need to load netflix on the laptop first!!

    CC has no interface of it's own to browse content so yes you need to select your content using another device and then push it to CC. Then the CC operates independently until you intervene again by controlling play back with the other device.

    CC will use wifi and not your devices internet connection


  • #90
    philthrill69
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 665 ✭✭✭philthrill69


    Bacchus wrote: »
    Save your slow claps. This device could never stream local media. It was never advertised that it could. What there was, was a hack that allowed it, which was patched up by Google. You bought something without understanding what it's capabilities were and are now complaining that a hack you heard about online doesn't work.

    I imagine that this will eventually allow local media streaming, whether that is via Google or another hack.

    I didn't realise it was possible to contradict yourself so quickly in the same post. "This device could never stream local media" "what there was, was a hack that allowed it". I'm slightly confused, so are you saying it never could or it could??
    And I know it never advertised it could, I never said I read an advertisement I said I read reviews where people were using allcast to steam local media.
    Whether it was a hack or not it was capable of it.
    So I did fully understand the capabilities of the device at the beginning but didn't expect Google to reduce these to be what is essentially an inferior product to a hdmi cable and adapter from your phone.
    As for the slow clap, http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/clapping.gif too late.


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  • #91
    Bacchus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    noodler wrote: »
    Wait a minute.....do you need your laptop to watch netflix?

    Does the CC not just plug into the HDMI slot and access Netflix straight away? Don't tell me you need to load netflix on the laptop first!!

    As far as I understand it, you don't need your laptop, you can also use your phone or tablet to push content to the Chromecast.

    If you want something that doesn't require any external device to push content, you should look at getting one of those Android dongle things.


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