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Chris Messina

Chromecast 2 - Google's thumb-sized media streaming device

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Hunter
Looks like a great update — so much awesome competition to control the TV as the biggest/most central/non-personal screen in the house. Epic.
Dustin W. Stout
@chrismessina Doesn't seem like 2 is available in the Chrome store yet, but I agree. I was just looking around a couple days ago to see if there had been any upgrades to Chromecast. Excited to get my hands on this!
Taylor Crane
But still no SDK right? Makes me think Apple TV is a solid step ahead on this one... does anyone disagree? Although Apple TV doesn't support web browsers/HTML anymore, so perhaps it's a closer call than I think.
Paul Prins
@taykcrane um, this has been out for a while now - https://developers.google.com/cast/ - well before the new apple tv.
Graham Gnall
Trying to get confirmation that new features won't be rolled out to v1? $35 is worthwhile upgrade price, but wanted to check.
Alan Cassinelli
@ggnall I'm curious about this too
Graham Gnall
@alancassinelli @ggnall Got the updated app today and now have the new UX (with your apps, youtube, netflix, etc). Not sure what else is added in the new hardware other than upgraded wifi specs.
Michael Lajlev
@ggnall 5GHz WiFi support alone is worth the upgrade.
Zlatko Bijelic
Chromecast > Apple TV in my opinion.
Hong Quan
Perfect timing since I can't find my original Chromecast.
Simon Bromberg
So now instead of being able to plug the other end into a USB port on the TV, you're forced to use a wall power outlet?
Some Guy
Anyone have any idea if you can use this in your car? Seems to require communication between both devices to go through a wifi router.
David Chie
This is great. I agree it's annoying that you have to use wall power. Although this will enable me to listen to Spotify on the speaker in my office that never wants to pair with my computer.
Ouriel Ohayon
just bought