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Peace in our time: YouTube is coming to Fire TV, Amazon Prime Video to support Chromecast
Posted on 4/18/19 at 9:04 am
Posted on 4/18/19 at 9:04 am
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To say that Google's and Amazon's relationship has been going through a rough patch over the past couple of years would be an understatement. The two companies have been on a path of mutual destruction, causing services of one to disappear from devices of the other, and vice versa. It looked like a resolution was nowhere in sight, so you can imagine our surprise when we saw the news that Google and Amazon have finally kissed and made up.
In a mutual announcement, the two online giants have revealed that they're collaborating on bringing their services to the other's devices. "In the coming months," the YouTube app will be coming back to the Fire TV (Amazon's devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs). It will be followed later this year by the YouTube TV and YouTube Kids apps as well.
On Amazon's side, the Prime Video app will add support for casting "in the coming months," thus supporting Google's first-party Chromecasts and other Chromecast built-in devices. The app will also be more broadly available across Android TV units and no longer limited to a few models like the NVIDIA SHIELD, for example.
The announcement didn't make any mentions of music services, but at least there's hope that Amazon Music could one day be supported on Google Home, or YouTube Music on Alexa-powered speakers.
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Posted on 4/18/19 at 9:14 am to Hat Tricks
This was never going to be permanent. Glad I held out.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 9:23 am to Hat Tricks
yeah sick of sideloading crap and lack of casting was a PITA
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:57 pm to Hat Tricks
I've been using the firefox app to access youtube on my firestick. shite really pissed me off they removed it.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:29 pm to Hat Tricks
Any idea if YouTube app will be comparably with the chromecast audio? I still use one of those suckers.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:59 pm to Hat Tricks
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Amazon Prime Video to support Chromecast
Praise the tech god! Now I don't have to hook up my old xbox every time I want to watch something on Prime.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 5:40 pm to Hat Tricks
Thank God. This was such a PITA.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 7:08 pm to Hat Tricks
So will the shield ever get a direct now app?
Posted on 4/19/19 at 6:31 am to Hat Tricks
Will I be able to cast Audible now from the app?
Posted on 4/19/19 at 8:11 am to Hat Tricks
To try to provide complete coverage on each of my TV's I pair a mini PC running Linux, Chrome OS or Windows with a streaming device - Fire Stick, Roku, Chromecast and Shield.
Posted on 4/19/19 at 10:32 am to ArkLaTexTiger
the real question is will nest and chromecasts now show up for sale at amazon?
Posted on 4/19/19 at 10:39 am to LSU Wayne
quote:im ready for the Shield UI to get a facelift.
So will the shield
This post was edited on 4/19/19 at 10:42 am
Posted on 4/21/19 at 8:55 pm to Hat Tricks
Can you finally cast to fire TVs again?
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