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You mean twice the ram (1 gig more than the shield), 4 times the storage (32 gigs), and a better remote (chirping find my remote feature, programmable button, and less shitty volume buttons)?

Yep. Sure sounds worse considering it also supports all the same features of the chromecast 4k and AV1 decoding.

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74 points

My Chromecast has no storage and no remote. It’s fine.

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-49 points

Cool. Keep using it.

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60 points

until they decide that their new device needs more sales, so they depricate the protocol and you can’t use it anymore

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15 points

Until services stop supporting it.

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36 points

None of which changes the fact that it’s more expensive and clunkier, and none of which feels necessary.

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27 points

I don’t need any of that. I just need a cheap dongle that can run one app

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The dongle still works. They reached market saturation with people who just want a dongle. They can’t realistically be expected to produce these forever.

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Classic Lemmy. Point out that these are not charities and companies can’t keep producing niche products that you aren’t buying but maybe potentially want to buy someday and get thrown down votes. Down votes without a response tell me you’re just butthurt about the truth.

Sorry folks whether you like it or not it’s the truth. Companies like to sell things and if these were actually being bought enough to make a profit they wouldn’t be discontinued. Your TV probably has this feature built in now. Want another? Buy it second hand, the market is absolutely flooded with these second hand because they’re just collecting dust in cabinets. If Google kept making these they’d just end up as unsold stock in a landfill.

Your existing chromecast dongle will continue to connect because Google needs chromecast the protocol to continue to work to compete with Apples Airplay. It’s the same reason the Chromecast Audio dongle continues to work 5 years after it’s end of life.

If you want to make sure you have them forever buy up your local second hand stock but otherwise no one has given a convincing argument why these need more e-waste getting produced at the factory.

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12 points

So when the current dongle breaks and you just want another, what do you buy?

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7 points

Your existing chromecast dongle will continue to connect

Will it, though?

“Sorry this device is too old to support the newest software update. For your convenience we have bricked it. Please see your authorized dealer to purchase an upgraded device”

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I mean I’d hope so because eventually this one I have won’t work like the previous one so I’d like a similar product when that happens not this 99 dollar box thing. I guess I hope someone else will continue making cheap dongles I think walmart has their own thing

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22 points

Most of the appeal of the Chromecast is that it’s a dongle you plug in once and never have to see again. It doesn’t need high performance and 32 gigs of RAM. It needs to play video. That’s its entire purpose. It’s controlled by any phone on your wifi, it doesn’t need a remote.

For most users, this is an expensive downgrade.

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5 points

The remote was the biggest upgrade for me on the Ultra though. I always struggled to find my phone and do stuff on it just to watch some YouTube or Netflix videos. And the Kids don’t even have a phone and they want to watch on the TV in the livingroom too sometimes. With the remote it’s easy for everyone to use it without fiddling with the Phone.

My parents have the one without the remote and they basically never use it because my mom doesn’t have a mobile phone and my dad newer has it with him, it’s always not charged or in some other room.

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2 points

It’s controlled by any phone on your wifi, it doesn’t need a remote.

Or you can use it’s remote and not need to use your phone for absolutely every little thing.

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10 points

And ethernet port!

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4 points

You can get an Ethernet adapter for the Chromecast

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2 points

Yeah, exactly. You needed to buy an extra adapter before. Now you don’t.

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4 points

Yes! I hadn’t seen that highlighted anywhere in articles really, only saw it on the damn Google Store after looking just now.

Seems an all around solid update on the previous device.

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7 points

Just gotta stick FLauncher, SmartTube, Jellyfin, and Stremio on it and it seems solid.

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6 points

Regular Chromecast work perfectly as YouTube jukebox.

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-5 points

What do you mean regular Chromecast?

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22 points

What do you mean regular Chromecast?

Just regular Chromecast, not that Google TV stuff. That round dongle that does nothing but accept casting streams via that cast button in many Android apps.

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3 points

It’s also twice the price of the Onn 4k Pro (Walmart house brand) that’s built on the same chip and has the same features running the stock Google TV experience.

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-4 points

They’re supposedly using pretty much the same chipset. So the most important part is still underpowered, these Android boxes generally work fine even with 2-3GBs of RAM.

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-3 points

From OP article

such as a processor that’s 22 percent faster

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12 points

It’s supposed to use S905X3 with ARM Cortex-A55.

There’s already plenty of devices on the market with this chip, and it’s fine, but in real world as a user you won’t really see any improvement over something like a nearly 10 year old Nvidia Shield that’s still using a more powerful chipset.

Which is sad for a new device…

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