I got my dad a chromecast. He's tech-illiterate, for the most part--can check his email, type in searches, but he doesn't really know where he's typing his searches. He might want a youtube video but type it into google, the url bar, youtube's search...which all work, but he's not seeing the difference.
Anyway, he loves it. He used to watch pool videos incessantly in a really bad computer chair, now he can watch them on the couch. Probably average of 3 hours per day. He had some trouble with the interface, and he kept pointing his iphone at the TV like it was a remote, when I showed him how to control it via the phone.
Anyway, any chance this is simpler from that perspective? Or should he just suck it up with the CC? (I think he's been doing fine now, honestly)
Probably just the CC, based on your use cases listed.
The use of Open Flint is interesting here, since it isn't tied to any major digital retailer. Amazon prime video won't work over Chromecast because, well, Amazon Prime competes with Google Play.
It's too bad that Flint is coming to the game this late - it would have been great if they had been there at the beginning of the market and became more of a standard.
Anyway, he loves it. He used to watch pool videos incessantly in a really bad computer chair, now he can watch them on the couch. Probably average of 3 hours per day. He had some trouble with the interface, and he kept pointing his iphone at the TV like it was a remote, when I showed him how to control it via the phone.
Anyway, any chance this is simpler from that perspective? Or should he just suck it up with the CC? (I think he's been doing fine now, honestly)