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No, not with streaming video - you tell the Chromecast where to access the stream. Once you have started it, you can turn the phone off completely if you want - it won't affect playback (but ... you won't be able to fast forward!)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Addendum: if you are casting local content (from the phone, or a NAS file rather than a DLNA source) it streams via the phone, so you can't turn it off.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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<fireproof coat on>
AppleTV, does the same as the Roku, just not as well. But it'll handle Netflix just fine
</fireproof coat off
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Your one mistake was taking the fireproof coat off. BURN THE HERETIC! 
On topic though: there are a ton of good suggestions. I'd go the rPi route but that's because I'm a masochist always looking for something I can write an article about.
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I would too.
But a rPi with a box and a remote wouldn't be any cheaper than the AppleTV.
And were talking about a 70 year old woman. 
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In the rPi case at least you could provide adequate customer service though 
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If that's your business idea. 
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LOL
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Good suggestion, but go for the remote with voice recognition instead of the basic remote
(costs about 10 Euro more). I would go nuts typing with the basic remote. And the voice
recognition works fine.
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Try something like the Samsung Blu-ray Player BD-J7500. It has smart hub built in with Netflix available, connects to internet via dual-band wireless or wired Ethernet, plays through HDMI.
This is what I got to use Plex on my non-smart Samsung TV and it works like a charm (with the bonus of playing BluRay and DVD).
Cheers,
Brett
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I'd say the Amazon Fire series, it allows access to both Netflix and Amazon's Prime Video, (as well as other smaller providers) and as Amazon aren't playing nice with Android in general, this is the easiest way to get the option to have both major platforms.
Chromecast is a bit fiddly, needing a separate device to operate (the fire comes with a remote)
Android TV (e.g. the Nvidia Shield) is better than the Chromecast for a living room, but again no Amazon access.
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Lucky chap... 70 years old people here wants movies in VHS - meanig people who register DVD and Blue Rays on cassettes. Go find a VHS recorder if you can...
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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Amazon firestick
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Roku. Keep it simple.
Amazon.com: Roku
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Well, technically, you can use a desktop computer to cast to the Chromecast. It's just a pain if they're not close to each other.
I made the mistake of getting a Chromecast and setting up a Netflix subscription at the weekend. "I'll just test it out by watching the first episode of 'Stranger Things'." Eight episodes later...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think any one of these will do the job.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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When you are in a big team, and the code is subject to constant spec changes then well crafted, good performing, lean and mean code is subject to update to messy after thought trash code in the middle that progressively makes the whole code bloatier and slower.
Now little apart code review can be done against bloatier code. Hell when a developer that has no clue about the project get pulled in to quickly add a new feature in 2 hours or less (time is money you know) mess creep is to be expected...
However... At the very least the developer will make sure his code doesn't throw exception!
And now I came up with an idea on how to make sure that performance degradation doesn't creep in unexpectedly!
I wrap every must be quick code in a class TimeCriticalBlock : IDisposable which automatically break if code get slower than acceptable (creation parameter).
This way, if the code slow down more than acceptable... the developer got an automatic reminder by the system while debugging! 
Quite happy when I came up with that idea! 
modified 17-Jan-17 19:09pm.
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What you really need is to provide every developer with an IoT device that measures their performance. Then management can sit back and watch the performance degrade as each new patch is made, all on a pretty web-socket / SignalR enabled realtime website. And while you're at it, the integrated build process can run Visual Studio's code analysis.
Degrading performance.
Increasing complexity.
Marc
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Yes IoT SignalR powered performance metric is the way forward!
Need more buzzwords though!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Need more buzzwords though!
How about "IoT data acquisition with real time distributed cloud big data document persistence and browser aware critical metrics for empowering performant management decision making."
Marc
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You know what? I typed out an equally long buzzword phrase. But this just wins. I have failed you senpai  You should be in marketing if you aren't already (possibly amusing considering I did marketing for about 3.5 years).
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Yup that should do it 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Exacerbating the debacle again Marc?
Software Zen: delete this;
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