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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by andrewia on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:00PM (#26996070)
It's far more bandwidth-intensive to stream from the internet to a phone screen and again from a phone screen to a Miracast receiver. You also can't use the phone screen nor see notifications while Miracast streaming.

With Chromecast, the dongle is actually just a remote-less streaming stick. So it streams directly from the server and the streaming app on your phone is the remote.

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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by rezonant on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:47PM (#26996792)
In addition to better efficiency, it also means that multiple devices can act as remotes at the same time, and if the original person who started the stream leaves the WiFi network the stream is not disrupted. It's definitely the more sensible way to handle streaming from cloud services- I just wish it would get standardized as a web standard so that it's not limited to the Google ecosystem
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