[Paladin2]

Worth a shot for $35.

[NormsRevenge]

Dongle Power!! WHY NOT?

We already live in a radiated environment.. I still haven’t setup my wireless HDTV internet thingy crap yet.. Dongle be there.. ready to go..

R U GooGle configured?

Slam dunk.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

Will get the link to an Anandtech article for those interested in technical detail.

[onyx]

“Even grandma can set this thing up,” he told MarketWatch.

Bet me.

[oh8eleven]

Google Chromecast is a USB device or “dongle” that plugs directly into any HDTV so that you can wirelessly play video and music from the Internet on a big screen.
First of all, your TV has to have a USB connection.
Second, you have to have a WiFi source.
Third, how is this different from a smart TV or smart BlueRay player?

[InterceptPoint]

I was going to order one of these or buy it at Best Buy. Sorry folks. Sold out. Need to wait about month before you can plunk down your $35.

In a Nutshell: Use your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet and the like to "stream" YouTube, Netflix and other services (to be named later) to your HDTV. I put "stream" in quotes because that not how it really works. The streaming is straight from the Internet to the ChromeCast which is plugged in to an HDMI port on your HDTV.

What do you get out of that? A nice remote that's also your phone. It has a keyboard and mouse called your finger. Much better than using the clumsy interfaces that come with the normal HDTV Apps for these functions.

This is a very big deal. Partly because of the $35.

[Obadiah]

I’m guessing you better have the bandwidth to support this constamt streaming or the rest of your household users will be looking at pageloads for a long time, like dial-up in the old days.

[discostu]

It’s really not that terribly revolutionary. I’ve been able to do the same thing with my bluray for years with DLNA. The only real drawback is most DLNA software kind of sucks, but wide open software to communicate between unlike devices tends to be rough (too many variables, not enough steering the user). By making their own software just to communicate to their own device they’re making an identical process easier.

[Revolting cat!]

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember how cable TV was going to shake up television. No more commercials with cable TV!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Google’s simple device will shake up television

a remote control that only has an "off" button?

[I want the USA back]

I will gloat over the demise of the cable companies. The future is unlimited choices using the internet, and viewed on a computer or on a TV.

[melissa_in_ga]

I already get this on my smart TV. Browser, Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and a host of other apps. I guess this is something I’ll pass on.

[jeffc]

I prefer big-screen TVs. I’m not going to try and watch microbe-sized people on a phone or tablet.

[Chance Hart]

Cheap Roku Box $25 or so on eBay Includes remote. Use PLEX or Twonky - both free. You can run anything from computer or smart phone to you TV in the highest quality it was uploaded including YouTube Vids. Works great for me + I have Netflix that runs through the Roku along with a hundred or so FREE Roku Channels. Older Roku box will display up to 720P and the newer generation like Roku3 will take 1080P both recorded and streaming. Also, you don't need a HDMI TV or HDMI input for all the Roku boxes other than the newest Roku3
Anyway, any questions you might have, message me as I am an expert in these matters. :-)

[montag813]

Why is this being so hyped? There is already the Roku, which has faster Ethernet available, not just wireless.

[steve86]

Do I have to unplug my Logitech Google TV box to use this /sarc

[bigbob]

this should free up a lot of spectrum...

[livius]

I read about this morning and checked - and it was already sold out everywhere.

[FreedomPoster]

Early reviews from a couple people I know who have them were favorable. It doesn’t do everything, but what it does do, it seems to do well.