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Episode: 1396
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Title: HPR1396: First Thoughts of the Google Chromecast
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1396/hpr1396.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 00:45:53
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Hmm...
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Hi everyone, this is Steve Promp and North Carolina for Hacker Public Radio.
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I'd like to thank everyone at HBR for the great service that they offer and allowing the
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community the freedom to report on tips, tricks, news, apps, and everything a hacker would
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find interesting.
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Today, I'd like to talk about my purchase of the Google Chromecast.
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I had not heard of this device actually coming out and so when I saw the commercial on
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TV, I was surprised about it.
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So I looked into it and it was very cheap.
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It was actually $35 US and it was available at a local retailer.
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So looking at it, what I needed was a way to stream Netflix to the TV upstairs, currently
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downstairs in our main living area.
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We have a TV that has a blue ray hooked up to it that does nothing but stream Netflix.
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It has played maybe one or two blue rays and that's it.
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Purchasing another blue ray player or something like a PlayStation 4, I'm not even a gamer
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so it would kind of be out of the question to do anything like that would be not financially
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sound, just not a good idea.
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So I looked into this device and it streamed Netflix and that's what I needed it for.
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The Chromecast device itself looks like a maybe about an inch and a half long USB stick.
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It's not really USB stick and say it has an HDMI port on one side and on the other side
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it has a mini USB.
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How it connects to the TV is through an HDMI input.
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So the TV that you have to have must be an HD TV that has an HDMI input.
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Along with the Chromecast device itself, there's also a USB cable so it goes from mini USB
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to a standard USB plug and this is to give power to the Chromecast device itself.
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The box also comes with a power adapter from USB to a standard USB plug.
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So if you don't have a USB port on your TV you are still able to get power to the Chromecast
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device to give power.
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So what I can actually do is the TV that I have is a Samsung TV that has two HDMI inputs
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and one USB port.
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So I was actually able to plug up the Chromecast device into the HDMI input on one side of
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the TV and the cable would route into the USB port on the TV for power.
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So after I plugged everything up, the first thing I did was install the Chromecast device
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or Chromecast app on my phone and installed Netflix app on the phone and logged into the
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Netflix app with my account and made sure that everything was worked.
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Everything was good.
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So after I inserted the Chromecast device into the HDMI input on my TV and the Chromecast
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from the Chromecast USB to the USB port on my TV, I switched the input on the TV to an
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HDMI connection through the remote.
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And on the screen it came up with the Chromecast like ScreenSaver and it said to go to google
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chrome.com slash Chromecast slash setup to finish the process.
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So I did this on my phone and when I went to the website it basically just told me to
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install the Chromecast app which I had already done.
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So I fired up the Chromecast app and the app searched out and tried to find a Chromecast
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device that was close and it found mine since it was plugged into the TV.
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And after I selected the device that I wanted to set up, the app started to walk me through
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the setup process.
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Versus the app connected to the Chromecast device plugged into my TV and after it made a connection
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it came up on my phone and said do you see this code on your TV?
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And the code was like Z2, T4 or something like that which it was displayed on my TV as
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well so I continued and then it would give me the option to change the name of the Chromecast
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device and it came up with a seemingly arbitrary name like Chromecast 0812 or something like
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that.
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So I changed the name to match the rest of the stuff on my network and then it walked me
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through to setting it up the Chromecast device itself that was plugged into my TV setting
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it up to connect to my wireless.
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It went out and searched for my wireless connection, my wireless router and it found it like
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SSID and it wanted me to enter my WPA2 key and after I gave it the information I waited
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for about maybe a minute or so maybe less and it connected to my wireless network.
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As soon as it connected to my wireless network it started downloading the latest firmware
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and apparently there's already a method for rooting the Chromecast device and this automatic
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update fixes that.
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I wasn't interested in rooting the device I just wanted to stream Netflix so when I had
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let it process the update and after the update it took about maybe four or five minutes to
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finish the update of the firmware and the device rebooted and on the TV screen it came back
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up to the Chromecast screen saver like and so it was ready for me to connect my apps
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for streaming.
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So I fired at the Netflix app on my phone and now in the upper right hand corner of
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the Netflix app there is a standard media route button it looks like a square and then on
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the bottom left hand corner there are three lines it kind of looks like a RSS icon.
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So when you touch that on the Netflix app that media route button it asked if I wanted
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to stream from onto my phone it said this device which was by phone or onto the Chromecast
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device and it showed the name that I had given the Chromecast device earlier.
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So I chose the Chromecast device that was plugged into the TV and on the TV screen I was
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given the album art or cover art or whatever you want to say for the TV show I chose and
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it started to buffer.
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And it took about maybe a second or so and then this show started streaming and it was
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actually really good quality.
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I think it came up and it said that it was 1080p if I'm not mistaken so it looked fantastic.
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On the phone however I just saw the cover art of the TV show and the standard play pause
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button and a progress bar that you can move back and forth throughout the show to the
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kind of fast border rewind the TV show or movie or whatever you were streaming.
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And it was great it worked really well and so I started playing around with it and currently
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right now the Google Chromecast only supports Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, HBO, Go, Pandora,
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Google Play movies and TV as well as Google Play Music.
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I did check out the of course the Netflix and the YouTube, the Pandora and the Google Play
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Music.
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I could stream music or podcasts or whatever from my TV for whatever reason.
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Don't have a Hulu Plus account or an HBO Go account so get and test those to see how
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they worked out.
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The one thing that was kind of weird is when the TV goes off obviously it loses its connection.
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So when I fired the TV back up I had the app already running and there was a little
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bit of a weirdness there it couldn't connect and then it said and it found it and then
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it disconnected and but after a second or so everything kind of stabilized and started
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working as normal and could stream the Netflix and the Pandora just as I did before.
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So my initial thought of the device is actually it's really good.
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I mean what I needed it for was to stream Netflix onto a TV upstairs without a huge
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cost.
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$30,000 is not going to break the bank so it was kind of a no-brainer and I know that
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a lot of people kind of like trying to get away from the Google empire or whatever but
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my phone is Android.
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I love the Android operating system.
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The apps work just like I need them to and on my Samsung Galaxy phone the connecting
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that with my Chromecast was fairly seamless.
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It took maybe about maybe 15-20 minutes at the most to go from beginning to end until
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I was actually streaming stuff and that's what I needed to do.
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Maybe a low cost way of streaming Netflix to my TV upstairs and it did the job.
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So if you are in the market to do something similar then I would say give it a shot.
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Hopefully in the future it will give you the option to play movies or recorded stuff
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from your phone that you maybe used your camera phone or your video recorder on your phone
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to record something and then stream that onto the TV as well.
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Maybe that's in the future not really sure but hopefully down the line that will be something
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that they offer.
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So I appreciate everybody listening that's all I got for this evening and if you have not
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recorded anything for HPR I would highly recommend it.
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It's a great way to get your feet wet and get some information out there to the community.
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Thanks a lot and have a great day.
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Bye.
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