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submitted 3 months ago by GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemmy.ml

Context: I have a Chromecast with Google TV today that I'm quite happy with, after having heavily customized the thing. However, it's only 1080, and I recently got a 4k TV and would like to be able to get the full mileage out of it.

Now that Google are sunsetting the Chromecast series, is it a bad idea to pick up a 4k Chromecast, or should I just wait for the new device to drop? It seems a bit pricier and I'm not sure if there are any features I should necessarily wait for.

My use-case is basically watching YouTube/Nebula/Netflix/Jellyfin.

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[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 1 points 3 months ago

I don't have a qualified answer, but I'm interested to hear what sort of customization you can do on a Chromecast?

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

You can do a lot of things! I've replaced the launcher and installed an altstore on it, giving me access to plenty of good stuff.

It's running Android under the hood, so any APK is theoretically installable, but most won't run well unless they are optimized for the use-case.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 2 points 3 months ago

I should look into that. The launcher is awful.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I was mostly against having the amount of ads that it blasted on me. They had a setting to turn off the recommendations, but that made it nigh-unusable.

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