Chromecast’s shared casting notification might work at home … but elsewhere?
If you've used a Chromecast recently, then you've probably noticed this notification showing up more and more often on your mobiles connected to the same WiFi network. The notification you see above, for example, is shown on my Pixel,...
Google adds a bunch more services to Google Home allowing you access to more...
Google Home is still a very young platform, however it's growing up fast with Google recently introducing new partners and today more services for you to interact with.
The new list of services can be found in the Google...
LG announce their new 34″ UltraWide monitor ahead of CES with Chromecast support built-in
The big show in home electronics and entertainment known as CES will kick off in Las Vegas in January and LG is getting ahead of the game announcing new monitors that will be on display at CES.
There are two...
Amazon Prime Video launches in Australia, here’s what you need to know
Amazon has finally announced the arrival of its Amazon Prime Video streaming service in Australia, taking the service to more than 200 countries worldwide. This means, of course, that the most widely anticipated show of the year (in my...
Netflix and Google Photos Gets Integrated Into Google Home
Google are going all-in with their Assistant the devices it is built into. We have been told by Google that it is early days for Assistant and that it will improve the more people use it. What could also...
Plex can pull your media from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.. who needs a...
In countries with faster internet than Australia, this concept probably makes sense. If you have the NBN, you can probably make use of this new feature of the Plex streaming media solution as well. In short, you can now...
Klipsch joins the streaming audio game
The streaming speaker market has some great contenders when you think about names like Samsung, Bose and Sonos. For anyone who's really into speakers and high quality audio, you'll also know the latest name to jump into the...
SBS On Demand Updates With Speedy New UI And Chromecast
SBS' catch-up TV app, SBS On Demand, received a big update today with the launch of a new app, rebuilt from the ground up.
With a simplified, slick and speedy user interface, the new version of SBS On Demand offers...
Phil: What’s in my bag?
It's pretty common for readers to ask what the Ausdroid crew carry on a daily basis, so I though it was time to start the ball rolling (and maybe put some pressure on my colleauges to do the same)...
Ring Doorbell — Review
We’re living more and more connected these days, with everything needing to be connected to our smartphones, and so it stands to reason that part of our home communication (albeit a simple alerting mechanism) becomes connected too. One of...
Google’s Chromecast Ultra is now on sale Australia for $99, online, at JB HiFi...
After a number of leaks confirming the Chromecast Ultra was on its way to Australia, and confirmed pricing from Officeworks and JB HiFi, we can now (finally) confirm ourselves that the Chromecast Ultra is indeed now on sale in Australia,...
Just in time for Chromecast Ultra, Google updates Cast API for 4K goodness
With growing evidence that Google will launch the Chromecast Ultra in Australia sometime in the next week or two, we're seeing an update today to Google's Cast API which enables the key feature of the Chromecast Ultra: 4K casting.
There's...
Google’s Chromecast Ultra also coming to JB HiFi, priced at $99
According to our sources within JB HiFi, the Chromecast Ultra from Google is also coming to the big yellow store. This confirmation comes after the Chromecast Ultra was spotted in Officeworks' internal systems last week, and tells us that...
Sony’s multi-room Google Cast speakers — Australian Hands-on
The Google Cast protocol is as mysterious as it is inconsistently implemented, especially since Google announced, and then eventually added multi-room support for the whole Google Cast ecosystem of devices. It was a bit of a long wait but...
Google Home starts to arrive in Australia via grey imports
With the Google Home going on sale in the USA a few weeks ago the more enterprising and impatient of Australian Tech enthusiasts immediately moved to get their hands on one (ours are stuck somewhere in Keasbey New Jersey)...