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Watched the first ten seconds, thought "stop whining and go outdoors" and closed it.
Was it worth watching any more? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Only if you like rhyming whinging
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Seems like the typical video trying to be deep, meaningful and profound, with matching music and so on.
Complete and utter sh*t. I'm sure this is great - if you're a hormonal teenage girl.
ps: all of those videos are made to make money. The sad thing is we fall for it every single time.
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CarefulCoder wrote: form an opinion...
I did. It's utter horsesh*t!
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I got my Chromecast, and I've been playing with it for a week now, on and off. So I thought I'd let you know how I got on.
You may remember, I wanted to replace my media player because the HDD is starting to get loud, and that's never a good sign. So I wanted (ideally) to be able to play videos from my NAS instead, direct to the TV.
Does it work? Yes, mostly.
It needs an HDMI input on the TV, and a USB for power, or the supplied external PSU. The box includes a short HDMI extension, incase the body of the Chromecast won't fit in the socket on the TV, and a 1.5m USB to micro USB cable (which is either way too long if you use the TV USB, or annoyingly slightly short if you use the PSU...)
Setup is easy: really easy. Plug it in and follow the instructions. Piece of cake, except for entering my WLan password, but that's my fault for making it so complicated...
Played with lots of software for Android, and a couple for the PC - ended up with LocalCast on Android and Plex on the PC (though I have removed Plex as I don't want to do on-the-fly transcoding)
LocalCast seems to play from anywhere - it supports DLNA/UPnP, and SMB addresses, so once I'd fed in the NAS IP and login details it was a happy bunny.
It works: start a video from the tablet, watch it on the TV. You can use the tablet as a remote, or turn it off. Hi-Def works fine. You can also cast music, and any video that plays in Chrome - so YouTube casting works fine as well.
Now running the LocalCast Beta, since it supports the tablet in landscape mode rather than just portrait.
There are annoyances. It doesn't play AVI at all, and it plays some MKV but not all, and doesn't seem to play any sound from them at all. It plays MP4 and M4V files brilliantly. Unfortunately, my ]previous media player didn't like MKV files for a long time, so I have a large collection of AVI files, so I'll have to either re-rip them, or transcode the AVI files (which takes a while with Handbrake).
The executive summary: Good. £30 is a good price for this - it works, in some ways better than the box it replaces, which cost a damn sight more than that! Wish it played AVIs though...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Nice, Thanks for the review Griff.
Ordered mine last Friday, bloody bank holiday, it should come today and I'm going to have a play around with it. Believing it or not I've not actually owned a tv with a HDMI port until last week just simply not bothered to upgrade from my old behemoth of a television. Now I have two! (One very new one and one very old one bought for £30... same price as chromecast!).
I'll give my review in a couple of days! 
Modification - I'll be using a Tesco HUDL and a HTC one to control it.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I know what you mean - I was surprised to find my TV had three HDMI ports - I hadn't used any of them!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Griffy, Chromecast has arrived, Huzzah! Will let you know my opinions soon....
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Go for it!
I'd wish you luck, but you aren't going to need it...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My review so far....
"Chromecast arrived today.
Verdict so far? Awesome I feel like a Jedi."
I've used BBC iPlayer, YouTube, Netflix, DrawCast, LocalCast & AllCast. So far so good plays everything fast and of high quality absolutely brilliant. I would note though the Home HD movies (Don't let your imagination run wild) on my phone stuggled to play on chromecast, I've got a HTC one.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Weird feeling isn't it? Technology that does what it says, right out of the box and isn't hard to use!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Movie Quote Of The Day
They say that a man with revenge in his heart should dig two graves. One for his enemy and one for himself. I guess mine's just gonna have to wait.
Which movie?
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There are just SO many clues saying it should be Enemy Mine[^]!!! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Road Runner: Directors Cut.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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ahm, The Avengers?
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Which?
These?[^]
Or
These?[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Whichever. I can't see those images. It's blocked.
Whatever Avenger that is, I know Spiderman isn't included. Poor Spiderman. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Hopefully not these[^]!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Amen to that!
Typical Hollywood: take something British, and ruin it...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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why does UKIP keep jumping into my head while reading this?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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"Snippet in paper about post-match shower."(8)
I like this!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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wow - am totally blind Bambi.
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