Within couple of days of announcement this device was sold out in both Amazon and Best Buy (only two locations where you can buy one).
Did anyone order it or managed to get it? How’s the experience so far?
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Bhavesh bought it from Google Play and got it couple of days ago and just finished setting it up. So haven’t experimented much. Considering we have Youtube and Netflix app on blue ray player, we haven’t found it very useful yet other than we can now cast it from any device. I feel it will be more useful after more apps support it.
A friend got it and wrote a review here:
http://www.rangaprabhu.com/blog/2013/07/26/google-chromecast-well-worth-35/
I want to use it to stream audio only. An aside-we got a Sonos Speaker as a gift from B-I-L. It allows audio streaming from any device to any Sonos speaker (with some caveats) on a LAN network, much like Chromecast. But it is expensive given the high quality of speakers. If Chromecast could stream music from any networked source, to any destination chromecast dongle, I would hook one dongle to each generic-brand speaker in each rooms (with a HDMI-audio converter) and have a truly customizable home audio set up- a different music playing in each room, each from different source enabled by any smart device on the network (Sonos does that!). I doubt that chromecast can stream audio only though.
I got it couple of days ago from Amazon. I have a non smart TV. So chromecast is useful. Though this is still in beta version, I love it as it was easy to setup withing a minute with all the devices at home. Now anything you watch on phone/tablet/laptop over youtube can be casted onto TV. Currently it supports only Youtube, Netflix and Google Play. But Hulu, red box and HBO go are coming soon. Chrome browser tab can also be casted without issues from MAC/Windows pc. $35 is very good deal for cross platform compatibility. The only caveat is it cannot play any offline files (audio/video). Hoping when chrome supports it that would be possible too.
@Kalpendu: Solution you suggested might not work for current generation product. As per google, it can play whatever is on google cloud 🙂