I taught my 73 year old mother-in-law how to use Chromecast. It wasn’t very difficult at all.
The nice part about it is you just have to set things up on your phone or tablet, and then you can watch it on the TV. You don’t have to go through an arcane login process on the TV. She was more confused when the TV went out and we replaced it with a FireTV enabled TV. It took her quite some time to get how to use FireTV even with explaining it multiple times over the course of weeks. From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of Joe Hass <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 7:05 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Amazon and Roku in standoff with HBO Max and Peacock Speaking as someone who lives in the Google ecosystem and should be all in for it, recommending Chromecast is like someone asking for a computer recommendation and telling them to build a Raspberry Pi. It's technically a valid answer, but it doesn't work as practically as you'd hope. As a set up: I'm as technically savvy as all get out, but my wife is not. We recently retired a Logi automated remote because it would occasionally dump her into a scenario she couldn't figure her way out of. And that's not acceptable for a remote control. I bought a nine-dollar Jasco three-in-one remote, made a job aid, and they're off and running. When we had a Chromecast, since we have a large local library to stream, there just wasn't a good way to do it sveltely so she could confidently use it. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 13:01 David Risner <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The solution is Chromecast $30 – can get it same day at Target or Walmart. If you need 4K, get the Chromecast Ultra for $69. If you want to use wired networking instead of WiFi, Google has an adapter available for $15. Very easy to use and setup. Works with both HBO Max and Peacock. Only major streaming service it doesn’t seem to work with is Apple TV+ because, well, Apple. You can screencast to get around it but it’s not the best quality. I have a Roku on one TV and the other is a FireTV. I have Chromecasts hooked up to both of them to fill in the holes. It’s less than ideal to have to have more than one streaming device, but it works. From: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Joe Hass <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 3:01 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [TV orNotTV] Amazon and Roku in standoff with HBO Max and Peacock A pox on the lot of them. https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/hbo-max-peacock-roku-amazon-streaming-1234703977/ Sidebar: I have given up on Apple and will not be giving them another penny after a crazy situation involving poorly-integrated two-factor authentication. I'll shift everything over to Windows, Plex, Google Drive, and Android TV. If you'd have told me ten years ago that I would completely abandon Apple, the company that made me into what I am today professionally, I'd have thought you were nuts. 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