- Push one tiny button accidentally on your fancy amplifier and nothing works.
- If you discover which button was accidentally pushed, everything works.
- Streaming TV over the Internet to your big screen TV works fairly easily.
- Streaming TV over the Internet is sometimes (a little) jerky depending on your service provider.
- Streaming TV over the Internet does give you access to lots of channels, some of which you have never heard of.
- Streaming TV over the Internet does give you access to most of the programs but not all.
- Streaming TV over the Internet does have some premium charges depending on the provider and is not all free.
- Streaming TV over the Internet is cheaper than cable.
- If you have an expensive sound system putting the dongle in your TV means that sound will not go through your nice side speakers but routed through your smaller TV speakers.
- Using your laptop for other things while streaming TV does interfere slightly with reception. (I never tried using a digital phone or tablet.)
- If you have "triple play" cable the ID that appears on your TV screen when the phone rings will not appear and you have to get off the couch and see who is calling when you are streaming.
- My particular Chromecast dongle setup must be plugged into electricity which removes the lovely wireless look.
- Hulu is good for TV shows and Netflix for movies, so before I talk to cable I am going to have to subscribed to one or the other of these and test them.
Anyway, I am feeling much better moving onto the next steps and will stop blogging about this stuff!