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hey everyone and welcome to another review by Jim's review room now you know when this little thing was first released on july 24th it was sold out on amazon and basically a week it went a backwater and i finally received mine a whole five weeks later now these things are flying off the shelf and could possibly be one of the top-selling items this upcoming holiday season so this is my review of the chromecast from google so what's so special about this little guy and why is it a hit well chromecast allows any TV with an hdmi connection to have features that you normally see on quote unquote smart tvs now you essentially have internet content stream to your TV wirelessly and why this might be at the competition well the next thing similar to what chromecast can do is the Roku streaming stick priced at eighty-four dollars at the time of this review and how about the chromecast well it actually comes in at $35 flap it's priced so low it's almost an impulse buy for those who are curious about this product and lastly it's insanely easy to set up and for me it typically takes about four steps the box says three I saved four but they're all easy nonetheless step one plug chromecast into the back of your TV step 2 chromecast needs power and Google does provide the wires to do so so either connect chromecast to a USB port on the back of your TV or connect chromecast to the wall step 3 from your selected device you can use your computer laptop mobile device or tablet and either one of them can be Android or iOS and go to google.com / chromecast / setup you have to download the app there step 4 once it's installed just enter your password for your home Wi-Fi and that's if it's very simple so before I can get into this this is very important to know now some folks determine from chromecast because they said it will eat up their data plan their answers technically no content is not being beamed from your tablet or phone directly into your TV so there's no need to worry about your data plan being used if you are on your phone and play netflix video while on let's say 4g the cast button won't even show up all data is actually being transferred from your wireless router and your internet at home your phone tablet or computer only gives chromecast a signal to retrieve the information itself so what can you access so far so in regards to content Google is offering the filing at the time of this review Netflix google music google movies and youtube and as you can see it's very limited at the present time however google has claimed that there are many more apps on the way from news articles and sources linked through wikipedias chromecast web page we're anticipating AOL on HBO Go Hulu Plus Pandora pocket casts redbox instant revision3 and Vimeo are all the works and I'm confident that Google is doing everything that I can to get these amazing apps for you guys so I performed my test after i download the google cast app from google play then usable apps like netflix and youtube now has a cast button once you click that your video will display your TV now i pulled up netflix and canton appears as good as any other device and playback was identical as well i didn't have any hiccups or issues with this little USB device i did set up my TV downstairs on the opposite side of the house and you can imagine the data stream through going through several walls and through the ceiling of the first floor again no problems at all now i'm an ad vid netflix user and some things I want to mention which are definitely perks we're looking at videos on your phone or tablet while watching netflix on your TV there is no interruptions you can control your content audio and video right on your phone or tablet instead of using your TV remote and lastly this applies to all programs not just Netflix you can continue using your device for example make and receive phone calls while you're casting basically now YouTube works the very same way clicking on a video and then the cast button will then display your content on your TV seamlessly again image quality for YouTube with no issue at all content and playback with smooth and I controlled everything from my phone or tablet now I also want to mention if you're on one device and decide to use a different device chromecast will allow you to switch on the fly it's not limited to one product for example I started a movie on my phone and then I found something in my iPad I cast from my tablet and as you can see here while I watch a video in the background my content changes once I clicked on my iPad here and the last feature I want to mention benefits laptop and desktop users now as long as you have google chrome as your web browser you can download google cast extension in the Google Play Store now this enables you to allow mirroring and your chrome tab to the big screen and your chrome web browser the cast button is located up top and once you click that will instantly have your TV display your content so whatever you can watch or display in your web browser you can have it show on the big screen now I didn't notice a slight lag once it performed an action on the computer and what was displayed on the TV again it's not detrimental down but it is there i guess worth mentioning and now for the cons and since we're on the topic of mirroring you can't mirror your entire desktop it's only limited to one chrome tab now I would have liked to see the chromecast mirror my entire computer desktop obviously and hopefully this will be a new feature that will be implemented through a firmware upgrade in the future so again um there's currently a limited amount of apps but Google did announce that they will have more support for other streaming services in the future so it's still very hopeful on what this device can do though and for $35 you really can't beat it overall this is a great device if you already don't have a smart TV or a blu-ray player with these similar features or a Playstation or Xbox connected again for only thirty-five dollars you get a well-built product with features for now that justifies the price if you're using that flicks alone this is still a great tool to use rather than spending a lot more to purchase in blu-ray player so you can just stream netflix or content your TV so that's it a quick review I hope you enjoyed this review the chromecast from google if you have not please take your time to like and subscribe to this video for future alerts to new products and definitely i'm on facebook right now at facebook.com slash Jim's review route so this is Jimmy from Jim's review room tick everyone and have a good day take care bye