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Cake day: November 26th, 2023
  • Most of the apps I use directly support casting to their respective ATV apps.

    YouTube 100% works with any device, but I don’t have a daily driver Android so can’t confirm other apps.

    TBH most apps exist natively on the Apple TV so “casting” something to it is a non-issue. It’s more of a Chromecast thing to use your phone as the source, leaving the relatively underpowered Chromecast puck just for pure video streaming.

    Apple TV on the other hand is massively overpowered for most stuff people use it for.

  • Apple TV 🤷

    No ads, very little base level telemetry. Very good app support because of the large install base. I still run the first gen ATV 4k and just this latest tvOS version is the first update it didn’t get. Everything still works as normal.

    Rumours say there’s a new one coming this month, but we’ll see.

    If you are more of a hacker type, the Nvidia Shield is relatively ancient hardware wise but still top tier if you throw away the Google shit and spend some time with 3rd party tools.

    And you can get 4k Chromecasts for like 19€ used, even the ones with the remote included.