surfrock66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle is discontinuing the Chromecast linewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square255linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareLaggyKar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoUntil services stop supporting it.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agountil they decide that their new device needs more sales, so they depricate the protocol and you can’t use it anymore
minus-squareNegativeInf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDeprecate the casting protocol? Sure Jan. The new device still supports casting.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThat’s the only reason I had to replace my previous 2 steaming devices. The streaming backend got updated and the app in my device no longer supported it. And there was no updated app made available for that device.
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey killed support for the first gen Chromecast and the YouTube “app” has been broken for 3+ years. They’ll just stop supporting it one day and you’ll have to buy a new one.
minus-squareIsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOh no, my $40 device won’t work after ELEVEN years. I’m being abused!
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYou haven’t been paying attention to Google in the last few years, have you?
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoChromecast ultras are already broken if you try to use your own DNS.
Cool. Keep using it.
Until services stop supporting it.
until they decide that their new device needs more sales, so they depricate the protocol and you can’t use it anymore
Deprecate the casting protocol? Sure Jan. The new device still supports casting.
That’s the only reason I had to replace my previous 2 steaming devices.
The streaming backend got updated and the app in my device no longer supported it. And there was no updated app made available for that device.
They killed support for the first gen Chromecast and the YouTube “app” has been broken for 3+ years. They’ll just stop supporting it one day and you’ll have to buy a new one.
Oh no, my $40 device won’t work after ELEVEN years. I’m being abused!
Truly a golden era
You haven’t been paying attention to Google in the last few years, have you?
Chromecast ultras are already broken if you try to use your own DNS.