Reply to post: Re: Audio cast dongle - yes please

CES 2015: The good, the mad and the POINTLESS

Nigel Whitfield.

Re: Audio cast dongle - yes please

Well, more or less; but the casting system tends to involve your device not streaming directly to the receiver, but simply sending commands that say "play this stream, from this URL"

That means there are fewer hops, and even if the battery on the phone, for instance goes flat, the casting device carries on playing

In theory, you can do more smart things - I don't see why a few devices on the same home network couldn't sync playback between themselves, for instance. So, potentially it can offer a lot more flexibility than simply sending an audio stream over bluetooth.

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