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I\u2019ve been saying it for a few years now, but I really, really<\/em> like the Chromecast \u2014 Google\u2019s simple little dongle for streaming Netflix\/Hulu\/YouTube etc. from your devices to your TV with just a tap or two. It does what it\u2019s supposed to do, does it well and doesn\u2019t try to do anything more than that.<\/p>\n Well\u2026 that\u2019s not entirely true. There\u2019s one<\/em> feature that\u2019s always been relatively underwhelming: \u201cCast this tab.\u201d Built to let you stream videos and content from your browser on sites that don\u2019t actually have Chromecast support built in, it\u2019s always been sort of\u2026 clunky. Even when it does mostly<\/em> work, the video frame rate is never on par with what you\u2019d see from the sites that handle Chromecast integration themselves.<\/p>\n It seems Google is getting around to tackling this problem.<\/p>\n In a post on Google Plus<\/a>, Googler Fran\u00e7ois Beaufort says that the Chrome team has been cracking away at improving things, upping both the battery efficiency and the video quality. It looks like it\u2019ll only really improve videos that are running in a tab full-screen \u2014 but hey, progress!<\/p>\n Even better: If you\u2019re willing to poke around under Chrome\u2019s hood, you can check out the work-in-progress improvements right this second. Just open Chrome, navigate to chrome:\/\/flags\/#media-remoting<\/em> and switch the box from \u201cDefault\u201d to \u201cEnabled\u201d (If it\u2019s not showing up, make sure Chrome is updated. It\u2019s also worth noting that this is an experimental feature and might totally break things \u2014 but if it does, just go back to that same address and switch it back to \u201cDefault\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/4-chromecast.jpg?w=600\")
I’ve been saying it for a few years now, but I really, really like the Chromecast — Google’s simple little dongle for streaming Netflix\/Hulu\/YouTube etc. from your devices to your TV with just a tap or two. It does what it’s supposed to do, does it well and doesn’t try to do anything more than that. Well… that’s not entirely true. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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