I have Chromecast. Wish it were more capable. At first all I thought I could do was cast NetFlix (which is no longer offering the free 3 months with a Chromecast purchase) and YouTube. But then I found you can add a "Cast" extension to your Google Chrome Browser. I shows up like a little blue rectangle at the top of your Chrome browser. What this does is allow you to cast a tab. For example, if you have Facebook open in one tab and select that tab to cast... poof, you see what is displayed on your computer screen on the tv screen.
Great, I'm thinking. I have a PRIME membership at Amazon and use it to watch a number of free movies on PRIME. I'll just open a tab to watch a PRIME movie on my google Chrome browser and cast the movie to my TV. Gotcha... doesn't work. Because the Chromecast does not support media delivered via "silverlight" which is Amazon uses to deliver PRIME movies. Don't know if I can find a way around that or not.
Learning more each time I try and use it though.
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