For some unknown reason last night, ESPN stopped broadcasting a basketball game right in the middle of the first half.
So, I grabbed my laptop, and found the game being shown on the ESPN website. So, I used my Chromecast to send it to my TV.
At halftime, I realized that I'd never used the Chromecast app on my phone yet. So, I pulled up the game using the ESPN app, and then fired up the Chomecast app, and sent the game to my TV... and started watching the second half.
Here's the issue... it worked better using my phone (RAZR M running KitKat), than it does either one of my Dell laptops. One laptop is running 7, the other running Vista.
What is happening here? This is the exact opposite of what I expected. I expected that the phone would have more lag and choppiness... but it was the laptops that have the lag and the occasional "hang".
Is some of it that the laptops are trying to do it in HD, where the phone isn't?
So, I grabbed my laptop, and found the game being shown on the ESPN website. So, I used my Chromecast to send it to my TV.
At halftime, I realized that I'd never used the Chromecast app on my phone yet. So, I pulled up the game using the ESPN app, and then fired up the Chomecast app, and sent the game to my TV... and started watching the second half.
Here's the issue... it worked better using my phone (RAZR M running KitKat), than it does either one of my Dell laptops. One laptop is running 7, the other running Vista.
What is happening here? This is the exact opposite of what I expected. I expected that the phone would have more lag and choppiness... but it was the laptops that have the lag and the occasional "hang".
Is some of it that the laptops are trying to do it in HD, where the phone isn't?