Leawo Solution to Chromecast not Working Issue with Alternatives Provided

Chromecast, a line of digital media players developed by Google. The devices, designed as small dongles, enable users with a mobile device or personal computer to initiate and control playback of Internet-streamed audio/visual content on a high-definition television or home audio system through mobile and web apps that support the Google Cast technology.

As its name indicated, it has something to do with the Google browser Chrome. The contents can be mirrored and streamed from Google Chrome web browser running on a personal computer or from the screen of some Android devices, to the displaying equipments with bigger screen.

Full Introduction of Chromecast

Chromecast Category & Different Models

Price & Function

Chromecast Alternatives

The following chart can let you have a general idea of Chromecast from several aspects like categories, models, prices and functions.

The easiest way to explain Chromecast workflow:

Stream from: Android devices, Apple devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows devices & Google devices like Chromebook, thousands of cast-enabled apps etc.

Stream by: Chromecast product lines

Stream to: TV for video and speakers for audio

There are two extraordinary features of Chromecast that distinguish itself from other similar products:

1. Remote control over your small phone for the big TV: this shall bring you a lot of benefits such as you know your phone very well, therefore everything is ready to use and nothing new to learn; your phone is personalized exclusively for you, so is the remote control, and all the shows and playlists are saved for your convenient playback; you don't need to download and log in those apps again cause they are already signed in on your phone; your phone is touch screen operation while your TV is probably not, so great feeling to control everything on your phone.

2. Chromecast can stream from 4K-enabled apps like Netflix, Spotify, pandora, hulu, CBS YouTube, etc., or browse over 200,000 TV shows & movies, 30 million songs, plus radio, sports, games, and more. Discover a range of free, subscription or paid content from thousands of apps.

Chromecast Alternatives

However, due to the fact that Chromecast uses your phone as remote control and lacks of the physical control, sometimes Chromecast won't work with your iPhone, so maybe it's time to check other Chromecast alternatives with the physical control or with other advantages that you can consider.

Chromecast Alternatives 1: a media player with AirPlay function(for example VLC Media Player) that can turn your computer as an AirPlay sender and receiver to stream the contents playing inside the player to big Apple TV and other displaying devices.

Even if for other media players without AirPlay like Leawo Blu-ray Player, as long as your computer and TV are physically connected, you can also stream the video and audio playing to TV for better watching experience.

   

Price: Free

Flagship features: the built-in AirPlay function and the support of 4K video playback, no extra codecs needed cause all the video/audio codecs are pre-installed already.

Chromecast Alternatives 2：Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Fire TV offers features that easily outperform Google's Chromcast, Apple TV or any other media streaming device in this case. For a feature-rich media streaming device that lets you play games out of the box, Amazon Fire TV is the complete media streaming device.

Price: $89.99

Flagship features: stream from hundreds of TV episodes, movies, over 500 games, voice search and many popular online streaming services.

Chromecast Alternatives 3：Apple TV

Apple TV is one of the most well-known streaming devices and it definitely makes more sense for users based on Apple devices and have a lot of their content on iTunes. Apple TV's Airplay lets you play games directly from your iPad or iPhone on your TV.

Price: $149.00

Flagship features: wide range of streaming services, games, streaming locally stored files, Easy to set-up with an HDMI socket.

Chromecast Alternatives 4：Samsung Allshare Cast

Samsung Allshare cast is perfectly compatible with other devices from the same brand.

This device also allows you to stream presentations to a TV and makes a perfect fit in workplace environments.

Price: $79.99

Flagship features: enjoy HD movies, music and even PPT on big screen, perfect fit for workplace environments, easy to set-up and connect.

If you are interested, you can definitely search and compare more similar alternatives. The only difference among player software, Chromecast and those TV hardware is player can't stream from Apps while Chromecast can, Chromecast doesn't have the psychical remote control while TVs have. So the choice is totally yours!