Google has unveiled 10 more Android apps that now work with the company’s Chromecast media streaming device.

The Chromecast is a $35 device that you plug into your TV’s HDMI port in order to stream video from sites like YouTube and Netflix to your TV while using your phone, tablet, or PC as a remote control. It’s very user friendly and quick, but up until now only a few internet music and video services were supported.

With today’s announcement, Google is more than doubling the number of apps that work with Chromecast — and for the first time there’s support for streaming your personal media files to your TV with Chromecast… sort of.

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You still can’t just open a song or video on your phone, tap a button and have it play on your TV using Chromecast. But 3 of the new apps let you stream personal media by first uploading them to the cloud and then streaming from the internet to your device.

Those apps are Plex, Avia, and RealPlayer Cloud.

Other new apps include VEVO, Revision 3, Songza, Red Bull TV, PostTV, Viki, and BeyondPod, which means you can now stream podcasts, music videos, Korean movies, music and TV shows, and more to your TV using Google’s little device.

At this point you can still access content from more sources if you pay a little more money for an Apple TV, Roku, or other streaming media device — but Google’s inexpensive, simple-to-use Chromecast is playing catch-up.

Google also held a hackathon this month, encouraging developers to add Chromecast support to their Android apps. So we could see even more apps soon.

 

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3 replies on “Google Chromecast gets 10 new apps (VEVO, Plex, Songza and more)”

  1. Plex allows local media streaming with Plex Server..been doing this through Roku for a while.

    1. Yep, this is good news, I love Plex. I also use a Roku for this, but a cheap chromecast with Plex for the bedroom would be perfect.

      1. I almost wish it came with a dedicated remote! Casting from an old, spare phone works too, just have to charge it up once a week.

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