Well, it's a little more than a circuit board.

But not by much. It implements a number of standard interfaces (a Universal Serial Bus, so you can do a smell up it), but if all you want is to send streaming content to your telly, especially if you're not *very* techy, and your choices are limited to Chromecast or Raspberry Pi, you can take it from me, pick Chromecast every time, and you can consider anyone telling you to get a Raspberry Pi a honking great big f**king idiot.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on June 2nd 2014 at 11:18:42

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Google Chromecast is fantastic folks. Get one! (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 09:20:34
- XBMC is free (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 10:51:34
  - Raspberry Pi not much more than ?30. (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Jun 2, 11:15:24
  - The PC to run XMBC on is considerably > ?30 though. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 10:58:49
    - Raspberrypi is less and better (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:07:02
      - Nerd fight....... (General Chat) - usacanary, Jun 2, 12:02:12
      - Oh, Larrald. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:13:26
      - lol (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:12:04
        
        Can do loads more with a Raspberry Pi (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:55:21
        
        And chromecast just plugs in and takes about 30 minutes to set up from scratch. (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 12:04:23
        
        Pi only takes about an hour and it does lots more (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 12:17:49
      - I thought the Raspberry Pi was just a circuit board. (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:10:53
        
        Easy........................ (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 12:10:28
        
        ↓ ↓ ↓ is this the start of a wroth heavyweight pens gayoff? (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 2, 11:25:39
        
        He's right about RaspPi being "better". (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:32:22
        
        VMT... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:48:51
        
        Can we talk about boxing again instead? (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jun 2, 11:32:01
        
        Well, it's a little more than a circuit board. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:18:42
        
        I think Larrald's opinion holds more weight. He's proven himself time and again to .... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:27:13
        
        This is a good point. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:33:19
        
        Install raspbmc (which is really easy from an SD Card) and plug it in (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Jun 2, 11:16:14
        
        Might give that a go. (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:45:16
        
        Yep (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jun 2, 11:29:28
        
        He gets his friend Bill Gates to do it for him (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Jun 2, 11:13:57
        
        lol! (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 11:19:24
- Im tempted to get one. Can you watch 4od, and ITV player stuff on it? (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 2, 10:40:12
  - Nope only IPlayer, it does integrate really well with youtube/iplayer on an iPad though. (n/m) (General Chat) - Meh, Jun 2, 10:54:08
- Other than You Tube and IPlayer what use have you found for it? (General Chat) - Meh, Jun 2, 09:55:41
  - netflix, any videos stored anywhere on a connected pc via... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:34:33
    - For streaming via pc, how do you select and control the programme? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 10:46:43
      - Realplayer Cloud app. Install it on pc and phone, sign in on both and they link. (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:58:06
        
        There do seem other server typ apps such as Plex, but I just found Real Player Cloud.... (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:13:08
        
        Does it allow streaming outside of your LAN, i.e over the Internet? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:16:04
        
        Only if you upload files to the cloud. I think Plex does allow external streaming though.. (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 11:24:13
        
        Cheers (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 2, 11:43:49
- Is it like Apple TV? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 2, 09:51:16
  - use mine all the time, great piece of kit (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jun 2, 10:13:53
- ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jun 2, 09:36:09
  - ? (n/m) (General Chat) - avid_canary, Jun 2, 10:36:04
  - ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jun 2, 09:36:24
- Google what in the what now? (n/m) (General Chat) - Duck, Jun 2, 09:33:16

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