Having smart televisions is a great addition to the lives of connected people. And, thanks to their technology and their Internet connection they make it easy to share all kinds of content between smartphones and the televisions themselves. Of course, if you have the necessary tools. At the moment there is no single system that offers any user to reproduce a photo, video or song from their mobile, whatever it is, to their television.But there is an application that seeks to eliminate those barriers. This is AllCast This is how it works.
The first thing to do is download the application AllCast, available free of charge for both terminals Android as for iOS Just get it regularly through Google Playor App Store and install it automatically.
The second thing is to make sure that you have a television connected to the home WiFi Internet network In this way it is possible to create the link between the mobile device and the living room screen to ensure that content will have a path to travel from one device to the other.
After that you just have to start the application and choose the device you want to connect with.In this case the TV. The application AllCast is responsible for automatically scanning all connected devices after pressing the button with the Cast logo in the lower left corner. In this way, it presents both televisions and other services available for broadcasting, choosing here what the user wants.
It is then when AllCast prompts the user to choose different sources of content. And it is one of the most complete applications for transmitting photos, videos or music to the television. Content that can not only be collected fromitself gallery of the terminal, but also through other services and social networks such as Instagram or Dropbox In this way, it is not necessary to expressly have those files in the gallery or camera roll. Google Drive and Picasa are also supported services.
Once the source is chosen, a gallery is displayed, which can be selected by the user. When marking a piece of content, this is instantly displayed on the living room screen Thus, just slide your finger on the mobile or tablet to skip to the next content. Being able to play in any order and the content that the user wants. Also, if it's videos and music, it's also possible to control playback automatically remotely from the mobile.
In addition, as an extra point, this application offers the possibility of entering sub titles for the contents that are played. Especially useful for taking movies on your mobile and playing them on your TV comfortably in streaming, through the connection WiFi From home.All this knowing that it supports smart TVs from Samsung, Sony and Panasonic, as well as Chromecast devices and Apple TV. Also to video consoles Xbox 360 and Xbox One from Microsoft
The negative is that some of its features are limited on iOS , being necessary pay for them to unlock them While on the Android platform the application AllCastoffers free only 5 minutes of retransmission, forcing the user to pay for the service if they want to enjoy all its possibilities.
