Are movies, tv shows, magazines, etc., that are purchased or rented through Google Play downloaded to the device or are they streamed? I want to know so I can view them in an area without internet available... Thanks.
by default, they are available via streaming.
but you can "pin" for local playback, where it does download them for offline usage.
Which do you buy most of in the play market? Not the free stuff.
I know you can cast YouTube or Netflix to the NP. Is there anything else I can cast from an iOS device?
Any way I can cast my photos or even mirror my screen?
A lot of good Android apps have made it to iOS.
I'd try Localcast and Allcast for your movies and photos.
Other apps I like are haystacktv, Google play music (I prefer it to iTunes match, up to 35,000 songs stored for free). Pocket Casts. Rocket for chromecast, video & TV cast, Plex, infuse, videocast cardcast, Pandora, tunein, pbs
Another app for discovery of apps is appshopper social, just use their search function and type chromecast. It seems to return a lot more results than the app store search does.
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goodhur said:
A lot of good Android apps have made it to iOS.
I'd try Localcast and Allcast for your movies and photos.
Other apps I like are haystacktv, Google play music (I prefer it to iTunes match, up to 35,000 songs stored for free). Pocket Casts. Rocket for chromecast, video & TV cast, Plex, infuse, videocast cardcast, Pandora, tunein, pbs
Another app for discovery of apps is appshopper social, just use their search function and type chromecast. It seems to return a lot more results than the app store search does.
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Just bought my shield tv...love it! The latest spmc supports voice search which is great. The problem lies when using it. When I do a voice search for a movie (the big lebow$ki) first a youtube trailer pops up, then info on the cast, then coen brother movies, then jeff bridges movies, etc,etc finally at the very bottom is my copy in spmc. Can I turn off all that other crap so it just shows my copy of the movie? Or at least make spmc the top choice instead of the bottom? I have notifications off for the following apps google play games, google play movies, google play music, live channels, netflix, youtube. According to the app options all the previous mentioned apps say I need to enable them so I believe I have them shutoff. I even went through and changed each one and it change what showed under google voice search. Its the only flaw in a otherwise great media box. Thanx for the help
When I use the voice search to search for a movie that I know for a fact is on one of my installed apps, I am only shown results to buy the movie from Google play. The only exception is if I search for something that is on one of the major apps like Netflix or hulu. But it will not search apps like TBS or FXNow for movies. Is there a way to make it do this? Roku does this very well.