Quilt Show really BIG!!! On my TV

[twiglet]

It is helpful sometimes to have an engineer as a hubby. They love to play with the newest toys and program everything in sight.

His latest thing was Chromecast. It allows you to play your computer videos on the tv. He showed me tonight on a youtube video. My brain went REALLY, so I can play anything on my laptop. I immediately loaded thequiltshow.com and ran the latest video. Guess what. Alex and Ricky are HUGE!!! On our big tv of course.

He's still playing with it, so I won't be able to enjoy it for a few days or maybe a week, but can't wait to get caught up on some episodes!!! Woo Hoo

Here is the website if you enjoy the tekkie kind of thing.

http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/chr...es/chromecast/

Enjoy.

[Sewdreamy]

My son recently set me up with the ability to run items from my computer through my big tv. It's delightful to see the TQS shows this way. You can see things you may have missed on the small computer screen. I love it.

[MontanaGramma]

I have the Google Chrome too. The main reason I got it was to watch TQS and Craftsy while I am in my sewing room. So nice to be freed from sitting there watching on my laptop or tablet.

[Margo]

I think this is called CHROMECAST.

GOOGLE CHROME is just an Internet Browser, like Internet Explorer or Firefox.

[MontanaGramma]

It is actually called Chromecast :-) I paid $35 and it plugs into one of the HDMI slots on the tv.

[MontanaGramma]

I changed it. Actually had the wrong link the first time and hubby noticed that one. I'm so new to this, but have a feeling I'm going to like it a lot!!!!!

[pam7040]

I have finally got an HDMI cable and linked my laptop to my 40 inch TV. I so wish I had done that a long time ago. What a difference it makes to watching the TQS shows!

[pam7040]

It's AWESOME!!! I'm planning a day tomorrow to catch up on a few shows.

[pam7040]

I have used my iPad and AppleTV to watch the TQS videos on my big screen tv for over a year now.

[QuilterLynn]

Yes, I can bring it up on my iPhone and watch on my APPLE TV. It's wonderful. Just did some Amazon FREE streaming of TV shows to my TV last night. There is no longer any reason to watch something just because it's ALL that's on, even if you don't have cable! After all, one has to sleep, one has to sew, and that only leaves ??? hours to use up anyway!! ha

[QuilterLynn]

Can you chromecast thequiltshow.com? I have not been able to do that. I can chromecast the quiltshow offerings that are on YouTube, but I think thequiltshow.com has a lot more of its programs than the ones shown on YouTube. Am I mistaken? If so, can you give more specific directions on what to do?
Thanks

[QuilterLynn]

Don't know Chromecast. Sorry!

[tweeter59]

I have Chromecast as well and haven't figured out how to watch the shows on there. I can watch Youtube stuff easily enough so if anyone has the answer I would appreciate hearing as well. It's probably a setting or icon I'm missing.

[tweeter59]

In think I see what ClaraLawrence's hubby might have done. You have to
be using the Chrome browser, which you can download for free (I have it
automatically installed on my Samsung Chromebook). Google "Chromecast
apps". You should now be looking at a page from google that is headed
"Now Casting". Scroll to the bottom of that page and find where it says
"Cast a Chrome tab". Click on "Add the Chromecast extension to your
Chrome browser". All that browsing and clicking should take you to the
following address:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...kmllpafd?hl=en

This page is headed "Google Cast". There is a button on the upper right
called "Add to Chrome", or something (it changed after I clicked it, and
I'm not quite sure what it said before I did that). Anyway, clicking on this
should install the Chrome Cast extension in your Chrome browser.

Okay, if you have gotten this far, you're almost there, and you won't
have to do any of that stuff again (whew!)

Turn on your TV. Logon to
thequiltshow.com and find something you'ld like to watch. On the TOP
right hand side of your browser window there should be an icon that looks
like a rectangular envelope with a corner inked in. This is the same
icon that you see in the LOWER right hand side of YouTube screens you
Chromecast, but now it should be in the TOP right hand corner of the
screen. If you click it, Alex and Ricky should appear on your TV set.

Unlike the Chromecast YouTube (and Netflix, etc.) app, this "Chromecast
extension" is still in beta, but it works pretty well for me (except
that sometimes the sound and picture get a little out of synch). I
think "Chromecast extension" works differently from the YouTube app.
The YouTube app starts a streaming process that goes to your TV from the
cloud. Once that has started, you can actually turn your PC off, and
the TV will keep streaming. But "Chromecast extension" is apparently
different. You have to keep your PC on for it to work.

Sorry for all the words, but I wanted to put down instructions that
even I could follow. Good luck!

[tweeter59]

Doesn't apply to me but thanks for the directions, you never know what might happen in the future.