Chromecast built-in 3.72.446070

Reviews

2 ★, on 2021-03-07
When it works, it works great. It works less often than it doesn’t though. This is across several devices over the years, too - Sling’s AIRTV Player, Sony XBR850C, Sony A8F, Hisense 50H8G, Google Chromecast with Google TV, and even the all-powerful Nvidia Shield. This tech falls short of the competing Miracast and AirPlay 2 standards by far, and even the AirPlay 1 standard in some respects. While Android TV is a good smart TV platform, Chromecast was bever a good device-to-device wireless video protocol.

1 ★, on 2021-04-19
The last update has a bug and some apps chromecast compatible can't play their content. We reported the bug to the developer contact email and received an auto-response sending us to a default google forum.

1 ★, on 2020-11-23
This is the worst Google product I have used. I bought my TV just for this feature, and it's entirely unusable. Videos play in slow motion, and end up going out of sync with audio. From reading through the reviews, it seems it is a common problem, not just something wrong with my TV. I tried opening the link that the support team had provided to others encountering the same problem. The page lists phone numbers to call. For the United States, the number is supposedly available "Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week". The response I received was "We are closed right now, please call during our normal business hours". I got in touch with the customer support team and carried out the many debugging steps that they suggested, with no luck. I am now hoping for some help from the manufacturer, even though it is not a problem specific to my manufacturer, based on other reviews to this app.

2 ★, on 2021-02-01
On my Sony TV, the factory installed version (1.47.216070) I couldn't get many websites, most notably Netflix, to successfully cast from Chrome off a laptop. The dedicated app for said site would attempt to load (three pulsing red dots) and then fail, crashing back to the home screen. With this update, that's not even an option -- trying to cast those sites that previously failed now instead triggers Chromecast Mirroring for that tab...which also frequently fails. I don't understand why this experience is so much worse than with a dedicated Chromecast device.

4 ★, on 2020-11-13
Working well enough in my Humax Aura UHD PVR. The only thing I wish it had alongside the other Chromecasts in my house was the ability to set the Ambient mode to stream photos from my albums. Such as shame that this is missing as I love looking at photos of my kids growing up etc when they spontaneously appear on the Chromecast ambient feed for my stand alone Chromecasts.

1 ★, on 2021-01-10
It is completely unstable. I have a Sony TV (2019) with built-in chrome-cast. My TV connected to router with LAN, but many-times I can't share my windows 10 desktop and when I can picture quality is very low. My old LG TV with miracast techlology works too much better.