crawfish wrote:But how nice is it, really? Don't you have to use your phone/tablet/PC as the remote? I've bought or tried several remotes for several devices for my iPod Touch, and I find they all suck for TV watching. And apparently the Google thing doesn't mirror the device UI, so when several people are there, it's back to huddling around the small device to choose what to play, right?
Of course not, each person uses their own phone to pick out the video that they want to everyone else to watch!
I was going to put a smiley in there, but then I realized that that's a real user-scenario that they didn't demonstrate. I'd hope that one user can't over-ride another users stream, but there must be some mechanism for multiple users to share the same device.
And it can't play local content?
It can, but that's not it's primary function, and not all local content will be supported. So you probably aren't going to be chromecasting your .wtv files, but you can be pretty sure that lots of torrents are going to start showing up in Chromecast optimized formats.