With music and radio apps like Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music and TuneIn Radio, it works much the same. The way it works, at its simplest, is this: you go into a supported mobile app to stream content – a list which includes YouTube, Google Play Movies + TV, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and HBO Now – or the Chrome browser, find something to watch and hit the Cast button. Essentially, it turns your phone into your remote control. The Cast controller can be an iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone or tablet, Mac, Windows laptop or Chromebook. It was great, and we're disappointed Google killed it – but you can still pick one up if you dig around online. There used to be an equivalent for audio – the Chromecast Audio – an affordable add-on which plugged into your existing speakers via the aux in to get them connected. The most well known Cast-enabled device range, though, is probably still those nifty Chromecast dongles that plug into your TV's HDMI port to upgrade its smarts, including the all-new Chromecast with Google TV. In a nutshell, it's a technology built by Google that works over Wi-Fi to let you send or 'cast' media - whether that be streaming movies, TV shows, music, podcast or radio - from your phone, tablet or computer to compatible speakers and TVs. Similar to Apple's AirPlay and Spotify Connect, what Google refers to as 'Chromecast built-in' (formerly, of course, Google Cast) is another technology that lets you easily control media with apps and, yes, voice in your smart home. We've been hearing more and more about Cast-enabled TVs and speakers with Chromecast built-in, so it's only right we break down what that actually means, how you can use it to stream music and video, and which devices are compatible with the technology.
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