Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is my 4th chromecast for my home. If you are deciding whether or not you should buy a chromecast, stop thinking about it and JUST DO IT!! You'll love this little device. I don't to go into too much technical details, but if you know what "Apple AirPlay" is, this thing does the same thing. Its better and a lot cheaper than Apple TV. If you own an Android phone and wants to send your video or music to your TV or home theater system, this is the one!! If you watch a lot of Korean Drama, this is the device to buy!!!

So I got a tip BB might have them in stock last night, so I decided to go over to the store and see if they had them yet. I asked the clerk, she had no idea what I was talking about. She did find that it arrived, and it just so happened to be in the cart by the register - not even shelved yet. I was their first Chromecast customer! I brought it home and was thrilled with the results. Easy to set up, great quality from Netflix and YouTube plus Google Play Music and Movies/TV. The IOS Chrome App has not been updated so that's a bummer because they are touting this as working well with it. Anyways, it will be great to get more music apps to work with it and maybe a few other choices. I do feel bad that the Netflix promo is no longer available for these, but it's still a GREAT product and I look forward to more updates with it. Highly recommended.

I got this think it would be awesome and if finally have something that would work good to play on my tv from my phone. I was wrong. Nothing works that I want to use it for. Unless this gets better in a hurry. I would not recommend

I read some of the bad reviews and was a little hesitant about having to use my smart phone as the remote, but I've had no issues with anything. I didn't have any issues with the set-up and it probably took less than 10 minutes to run updates and be up and running. I was hesitant about having to use my smart phone as the streaming source, but that works perfectly and has no effect on being able to use my phone while streaming. Once you send it to the ChromeCast your phone is still totally functional. When your phone locks or goes to sleep your are still able to pause or stop your video without unlocking. My only complaint so far was that I could see the power cord sticking out from behind my TV, and that is only because were the HDMI and USB ports are located on my TV. It's not a real big issue for me, but was the only thing I could think of. For the price it is totally worth it and does what I wanted it to do. I wanted another source for my family to be able to watch their Netflix and YouTube videos besides the living room TV. That's what this does. My daughter also likes being able to listen to her Pandora, as well. I will probably get one for all the TV's in my house.

continues to freeze up so I must totally reload whatever I am trying to watch.Not worth the money wasted

I ws truely upset when I found that the salesman was not truthful with me and sold me something I didn't need. My smart TV already can stream internet content. I was told this would stream local content from my pc. It doesn't.

I had heard from family members how great this device was, so I was really looking forward to using it. Unfortunately, try as we might, we never could get it to work.

it does work but, it would not let me stream full screen video from my phone (galaxy s3) and my HP Envy Laptop could not install app (phraser error). So i took it back

Took me 1 hour yo see 10 minutes of a movie. App never runs correctly, reloads every 3 seconds, horrible waste of time and money.

COULDNT GET IT TO WORK, TIME WARNERS TECH GROUP COULD NTO LIFT FILTERS FOR USE AND HAD TO PAY EXTRA FOR FASTER SERVICE. OTHERS I SPOKE TO SAID EVEN WHEN FUNCTIONING IT WAS SLOW STREAMING AND PIC FROZE WHILE WATCHING...

Spend a lot of time to instal since instruction Is lousy and vague. After instilled on my IiPhone could not cast since nothing appeared on the program to start casting, I gave up and like many others returned it.

This worked well a couple of times. It quickly became difficult to use and outdated. Was not worth trying to save a few dollars. Should’ve spent the money on a Blu-ray player.

Good idea but lags really bad even with computer sitting next to the tv. Then when using on phone the sound cuts out with in 1min and doesn't come back.

Pros 1.Takes under 30 seconds to connect and start streaming. This does not stream from device, it streams through Wifi, therefore saving battery on your devices. You use the device as a remote. 2.I tested using: all worked great! a.Nexus 7 b.Laptop c.Motorola Atrix HD 3.Streaming Netflix is flawless, but Subtitles do not work on the device. I have contacted Netflix, even though the Chromecast says it will display subtitles, it does not. Netflix has reported this up the chain so hopefully this will be addressed soon. 4.Can multitask on the device while streaming Netflix. Does not affect the quality of the streaming. 5.Youtube streams flawlessly too, sound is better than I thought it would be. Cons: 1.You do have to have power going to the device by usb connection(included), so it’s one extra cord behind TV. I thought I wouldn’t need this., but not a big deal. a.This might be a reason why the TV doesn’t turn on when I play my Netflix? I read somewhere as soon as you connect, it should automatically on tv and switch to that input. 2. Limited (for now) to only Netflix, YouTube, Google play media and Chrome browser with extension installed on laptop. 3. Can’t access local/personal movies on Google Move & TV 4. Can’t play personal music on google play (has to be in the cloud only or purchased from Google) This is my biggest Conflict with the device 5. Using the Chromecast extension for browsing in Chrome is quite laggy, but I believe it is still in Beta testing stage. Playing videos from here does not work well at all, even on the lowest video quality setting. I found this as a workaround to play personal movies from computer, but it is very laggy and unwatchable. I don’t know if this is due to my Internet(which is 20gb) or laptop which is only 1 year old? Overall: It’s a good start, but if there is a way we can stream our ‘on- device’ personal movies/music, this I think will be a big step up. I don’t want to post all my recorded videos of my son’s Tball game on youtube. This would be time consuming. But for $35 you can’t really go wrong, with getting 3 months free Streaming Netflix. You can’t get any technology for this price. This is just the beginning of the Chromecast and I believe there will be more apps and programs to work with this. One comes to mind , is Pandora or maybe some games? Rumors are that Pandora is close. I expect the app market for this device to grow fast.

First of all I have to say this Chromecast is just awesome. It really rocks! I came home Weds night and had the news on and heard a news story about the release of the device. I had a busy day Thursday. But early evening I read online that the Netflix promo had ended. I've never had Netflix and always wanted to try it since my friends are always talking about Arrested Delvelopment and Netflix content. I went to Amazon, Google Play and then Best Buy. I saw on Best Buy you could still purchase online if a store had it in stock and the free 3 months of Netflix was also still on the page. I checked the store near my house and it said it was unavailalbe. I looked at other stores and they were really far away. So the rest of the night I didnt think or feel bad that I couldn't buy a chromecast. After midnight I took a shower and went back to Best Buy's web site and brought up the list of stores that come up with my zip code. I saw a store in a part of town where I had to go on Sat to a birthday party at night. I got out my credit card and the purchase went through. One Friday I was hopeful that I would still be able to pick up the Chormecast since I got an email that my order was ready to pick up! FInally Sat came and I left 2 hours early for the birthday party and took my tablet with me. When I went to the pick up counter they had my Chromecast in a sealed box and the woman said they had been out of them since Weds. I told here how I bought mine after midnight Fri morning when I guess they added inventory to that Best Buy. I have the Samsung Galaxy tab2 7" that I purchased last Sept 2012. I went to the Samsung Store inside Best Buy and was given some help on how to conserve my battery. Everyone at Best Buy was wonderful. Now I came home from the birthday party at midnight and plugged in the Chromecast into the HDMI port and power supply to my usb port next to my HDMI port on my Samsung TV I bought last year at Best Buy. I then went to the web site the TV screen told me to go to on my tablet and it downloaded Chromecast.i also had my notebook ready since I knew from reading reviews that I was going to need to enter my passcode for my reuter. And that was easy. I went to my youtube app and the video didnt play. After 10 mins I decide to go back to look at what info was in the Chromecast app. It listed Netflix, Youtube and Google Play. I clicked on youtube and it asked if I wanted to open it or install. I clicked on install and magic happen. All I needed was the lastest version of Youtube and I was able to stream perfectly 1080 HD video to my TV! After watching a few videos on my TV I decicde to see how you can go to any web site while streaming. I went to my email and found 2 emails from Best Buy. One confirming my order was picked up and a 2nd with info on my free code for 3 months of Netflix. I went to the Netflix app and installed the lastest version. Then I created a user name and passcode and needed no credit card to start up Netflix. WIthin a few minutes I looked at all the content and then decicded to stream the pilot of Arrested Development. It was my 1st time seeing the show and I'm hooked on the show and to my Chromecast. I got really lucky not just getting the Chromecast from Best Buy but still getting for free 3 months of Netflix! I'm over the moon since my Samsung Tablet 2 7" had no way to stream and now I can watch endless youtube and Netflix at least for the next 3 months. I hope this doesn't cut into my time working out at the gym and all my other sports I play. Lol. Try Best Buys web site before they take down the Netflix promo. Hope this review helps someone. Get back to me with questions or comments if you'd like. Thanks for reading!

I don't want to be too effusive but this dongle is, per dollar, the best thing I've bought for a long time. I purchased my 60" plasma a number of years ago, lots of HDMIs a couple of USBs but no internet. Plugging Chromecast in solves that issue. Plug it in, hook up the usb power, access the setup via the Chromecast app on my rooted nook HD+, hooked it up to my wireless network, fired up netflix with the 3 month freebie, streaming a movie within 5 minutes of opening the box. I have two other HDMI flat screens in the house and I think I'll buy a couple more when they come back into stock. The only downside and it isn't something you can hold against Google is the lack of local media streaming, I understand there is an SDK available and it is only a matter of time before someone writes the killer app to augment this killer dongle. In the meantime if you can play a file in your Chrome browser on your laptop you should be able to cast it to Chromecast.

i should not have bought this thing. I thought it might connect my TV to my computer. A simple case of not knowing what I was buying. My XBox does the same things plus a lot more. I want to return it.

If you travel or just want to cut down on your cable bill, the chromecast will fit that bill. The box comes with the chromecast and a usb power adapter, that in itself is worth at least half the price you pay for the device. I will say one thing about this device. If your going to set it up the first time, downloading the chromecast app to a pc will help you out a great deal. But after that, setup from then on is very simple.

I purchased this product with high hopes only to be shot down by its inability to cooperate even after connecting it to both my wifi and my device.

I was not thrilled with the performance go the chrome cast. I ended up returning it and getting a fire stick. Maybe I just read the contents of the unit wrong.