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Iām a little fed up with this war between brands. Specifically those wars were the outcome screwing the user’s experience.
At home, we have a Netflix subscription, which works perfectly fine with our Chromecast. We can use our laptops and our phones to send the movie to the TV. Flawless.
Iām also an Amazon Prime subscriber, which also gives me access to Prime Video. You know, the streaming service from Amazon that even if the catalog is not huge it has some original shows.
Thereās no option to cast it
I just donāt understand. Iāve done my homework and googled it. Thereās no way, at the time of this post, to cast the Prime Video movie to the Chromecast device out of the box.
Why?
Mirror your phone
Yes you can do it, you would be using their Prime Video Android app. Still, that wonāt help you.
Mirroring your phone display to your Chromecast. But thatās horse shit š©because youāre playing the movie in 2 devices at once, draining your phoneās battery life.
If you use the Netflix app in your phone a beautiful Chromecast icon will show up, to send that movie to it š
š¤¦š»āāļø Cast your Google Chrome tab
Another š“š© solution is to use Googleās built-in ātab castā to send what you have in your current tab (you would have Prime Video website open and a movie playing), and that would be sent to Google Chromecast.
Nonsense. Again having the play the thing in 2 devices which will be slower than Chromecast fetching the movie by itself instead of my computer sending it to the Chromecast.
Better than nothing, sure, but why?!
I donāt understand
Clearly, Iām missing something. I understand Amazon sells their Fire Stick, which is the same thing as a Chromecast. Which is about the same price.
I will not be buying a Fire Stick, whatās probably going to happen is Iāll just watch something on Netflix instead.
I imagine theyāve done their research. Maybe Iām outside the majority. Perhaps most of the users will buy a 30⬠Fire Stick to watch their shows.
I don’t know. What I do know is this was a conscientious decision from Amazon, to not support Google Chromecast devices.
Thank you Amazon, thank you…
Ricard