Googles offering is also a lot more portable, making it a better option for people who want a way to cast video to a TV when they are on the road.

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One of the most useful features of this app is its ability to let you know which software already on your tablet supports the Google Cast service, and help you find more.

As the popularity of this inexpensive accessory grows, developers continue to add support for it to their software, and Googles app keeps track of the new options.

The aptly-named Video TV Cast is a web browser that can send videos embedded in web pages to a Chromecast.

Suppose youre in Safari and you run across a video you want to watch on your big screen.

Hit the iOS action button and choose the TV Cast (Chrom.) option.

Then open TV Cast and the page you want will load automatically.

At that point you start playing the video on the iPad, and very shortly a link will appear at the bottom of the tablets display.

For example, adding the ability to open the desktop version of websites is 99 cents.

This app can also stream video files stored on the Internet, though not ones embedded in web pages.

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This means that someone can keep their movie collection online, and then use LocalCast to send it to their TV without taking up space on their iPad.

Prices to rent movies range from 2.99 to 4.99, and to purchase them is generally 14.99.

Individual episodes of TV shows are 1.99, but access to some episodes requires buying entire seasons.

Once a show or movie has been rentedpurchased, it will show up in Googles iOS application for playback.

This includes TV networks like ABC, CBS, Fox, and PBS, though the offerings of some of these can be limited.

Still, they can be a handy way to keep up with some of your favorite TV shows on a big screen when youre on the road.

These dont have the latest and greatest movies to choose from its more like B-movies and TV shows from the 1990s but its hard to beat the price.

This means that those who have Netflix, for example, can stream directly to a TV with a Chromecast attached to it.

However, many individual cable channel applications do have Google Cast support.

This means that, for example, the Disney Channels app can stream to a Chromecast.

Just be aware, to access most of the content in these apps requires signing in to prove you have a cable TV subscription.

It currently can be done only with an AppleTV and AirPlay, not Chromecast.

Playback or beam any video formats without conversion that you have stored on PC, MAC any UPnPDLNA server wirelessly and transfer to any wireless media players, like TV via Chromecast.

This works very nicely, and I am surprised that I dont see it advertised as an feature.

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