I’ve had a Chromecast for almost a decade, and it had mostly been great. They cost £30 at the time, and let you cast from most media apps, even if they didn’t really have their own UI. You could take it to a friends house / hotel, power it off of the USB port on the back of most TVs and you’d be off to the races.
Given that they are now discontinued and my old one doesn’t support 4K and casting from some newer apps (maybe a lack of AV1 / h265 support?), I’m looking for a replacement.
I’m looking for a privacy-respecting device in a vaguely stick-like format that will support casting from Android. It having support for apps is a nice to have for me.
Before you say “well if you use YouTube / Plex it’s not private because they collect data about what you watch”, sure, that may be true, but I’d rather not have the stick itself also do ACR on everything I cast as well.
I don’t have any other Apple devices, and I really want to be able to cast from my apps to the device, so I can keep watching something I have started seamlessly.
Is that possible on the Apple TV?
Thanks for the reply.
For android to apple tv casting, you have to download an app on both the apple tv and the android.
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.