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Above:
Google has a site where you can
check if your smart TV is compatible with
Chromecast (though you can always add
the separate Chromecast dongle).
Right:
It's easy to use Google Home
to control videos played through a
Chromecast device.
Use YouTube
Use YouTube
Google Home can be a control point for watching
videos on other devices
YouTube is one of the best things the internet has given us. Missed
the interview with Tom Hanks last week? Want to see some
highlights of yesterday's cricket? Need to check out Duran Duran's
Rio video? None of this is a problem for the world's biggest video
sharing site, which is now spawning and supporting the careers
of content makers everywhere. Over a billion people (a third of
the internet) use the site and its reach is much bigger than any TV
networks, with 88 countries having their own versions.
Check TV compatibility
A whopping billion hours of videos are watched daily. As another
Google-owned property, you'd rightly expect Google Assistant to
work well with it – here's how to use YouTube with Google Home.
Now, it sounds obvious, but YouTube is a video site – you can't just
listen to audio from YouTube on Google Home; you need a TV to
play videos on. And that needs to have Google Chromecast built-
in or have a Google Chromecast dongle attached. If you have a
smart TV already, then check out www.google.com/intl/en_us/
chromecast/built-in/tv to see if your TV is Google Chromecast
compatible. TVs running the Android TV interface support
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