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Facebook Now Lets You Use Google Cast or AirPlay To Stream Video On Your TV (digitaltrends.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the kick-back-and-relax dept.

Facebook has made it a high priority over the years to improve its video platform so that it can better compete with the monolithic video service that is YouTube. Today, the company has added another feature, one that allows users to stream Facebook video content to the Apple TV via AirPlay and to various Google Cast-enabled devices. Digital Trends reports: The feature is available on the Facebook iOS app and, according to Facebook, it will be available on Android soon. The best thing about it, however, is how easy it is to use. Simply find a video you want to watch, then tap the TV button and select which device the app should stream to. Another highlight of the feature is that it is truly built for Facebook -- that is to say, when you are watching a video on the big screen, your phone is not on lockdown until the video is over. Instead, you can keep scrolling through the News Feed, treating your TV as more of a second screen than simply a mirror of your phone.

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  1. By geeks for geeks by sjbe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My Mom use it without problem, you know: it's a matter of publicity

    Could you mom build that system without your help? Did your mom set it up? Did you have to tell her about it? Was she able to use it without any guidance from you? Do you have to fix it whenever something breaks? Unless your mom is a lot more capable than most people, I seriously doubt she figured it out herself.

    99.999% thinks that "there is no other way"..

    And that's because for them they are right - there is no other way. Very, very, very few people are going to bother setting up a system like that even if they have to the technical chops to do it. Wouldn't matter if they knew it was possible or not - and most will not. Honestly even if you tell them point blank they will look at you like you are from Mars. They'll hear nothing but a bunch of meaningless (to them) technobabble and you can watch their eyes glaze over. The overwhelming majority wouldn't be able to figure it out on their own. That's why there is a market for stuff like Chromecast and AppleTV. Your solution is a solution by geeks for geeks and more or less useless to anyone else. I'm as geeky as anyone here on slashdot and I wouldn't go to the bother because the effort is just not worth the minimal reward to me.