Introducing Google Chromecast

[superchunk]

famousringo said:

superchunk said:
Another thing i was thinking of. This is great for businesses.

They could have a meeting in say hangouts and use this feature with Chrome to cast it to a larger wall TV for all room to view while one person handles the meeting.

Kinda have a video call for whole family while all primary view TV vs tablet/phone/etc

Two problems with this:

1. Enterprise wifi is a bitch. If Chromecast can connect, which I wouldn't take for granted, there's no guarantee that the streaming device and the target device could talk to each other. I've already run into these problems with AirPlay, and I'm not saying they're insurmountable, but they aren't worth my time to solve right now. Basically throw the "simple" part out the window once corporate networks come into play.

2. Business projectors are still trapped in fucking VGA land. It's stupid, it's ridiculous, but with a parade of various digital video connection standards, many business projectors still use VGA exclusively. Looks like they've finally started coming around to offering HDMI standard, but my workplace is packed with VGA-only projectors, some only bought in the last couple years.

1. true.

2. my work has been removing all projectors and putting up massive HDTVs. lol