Cloud Computing: Google unveils $35 Chromecast device for TV and music streaming
July 25, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Zach Miners.
Google has introduced a cheaper rival product to the Apple TV set-top box with Chromecast, a small portable device that streams video and music from people’s computers and mobile devices to their televisions. The product, which will retail for US$35, will be available in the U.S. now from Amazon, BestBuy.com and Google’s Play Store. It will also be available from brick-and-mortar Best Buy stores starting Sunday, Google executives announced Wednesday during a meeting with the media in San Francisco. Google is working to bring the device to other countries as quickly as possible, executives said.
More than 200 billion videos are watched online each month globally, said Sundar Pichai, head of Android, Chrome and apps at Google, who hosted the event. But it is difficult to watch those videos on a television, Pichai said, adding, "we want to make this better."…
Chromecast is a Wi-Fi-enabled, 2-inch dongle that plugs into a television’s HDMI port. Once it is plugged in, various types of video and music content can be pushed to the television from users’ smartphones, tablets or desktop computers, through a new button now appearing at YouTube and Netflix…
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