[koinedad]

Not sure the full motivation behind this but this is very annoying for a parent with kids. Especially if you've lost your remote, or want to quickly find something and cast it to your Chromecast/Apple TV.

I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay.

[mikeyouse]

I’ve helped several elderly neighbors get setup with casting to their TVs as well. Just a debacle that’s going to frustrate a bunch of people for no good reason. Really wish the teams that implement ‘features’ like this were forced to deal with the consequences. At least in the olden days, they’d get feedback in the form of calls and complaints to their help line but now it’s just “Too bad, app changed, deal with it.”

[littlecranky67]

Well, the consequence would be to cancel the subscription now?

[hollerith]

>I'd prefer video streaming apps be required to support Casting/AirPlay.

Do you mean required by law?

[koinedad]

No, I’d say the App Store,

I consider it a device perk. I bought the iPhone and Apple TV largely because of airplay so if they remove that functionality it will move me to use other streaming services that support it or I’ll just buy movies again and stop paying streaming altogether.

[happymellon]

Required by store?

[otterley]

Apple TV has a Netflix app already. Plus you can use your iPhone as a remote.

[jaffa2]

All this app stuff is so annoying. I reverted back a while ago. Now when i want the radio on i just switch it on. With an actual switch. Same with my lights— an actual real switch! Theres no benefit to chaining all your behind someapp the needs updated installed, logged in passwords, managed, ooo you haven’t logged in for 90 days lets send you an email to update your password- bro i just want to increase my heating. Its all nonsense. Sooner people realise the better.

[inanutshellus]

TODAY I got an email saying my $600 robot vacuum cleaner -- which only works via an app -- would no longer work with said app.

It has no physical buttons to manage schedules, just a "spot clean now" button.

I hand-wrung when I bought it -- knowing it was a risk requiring I trust them -- aand I was bitten.

Awesome.

Welcome to the future.

[mock-possum]

Probably to drive people to piracy

[ZeroConcerns]

> this is very annoying for a parent with kids

But the parents without kids, will they at least continue to be leafs? (Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry...)

[clueless]

> Not sure the full motivation behind this

This feature was one of the main reasons how Netflix movies/shows could be captured/uploaded to piracy sites in full quality as soon as they were released. People recorded the video output and uploaded them. This is to remove that path. Kinda obvious if you ask.

[progbits]

This is untrue. This method wouldn't get you the highres content, that's limited to higher widevine tiers. Pirates use other bypass methods and this will zero impact.

[Dayshine]

That's not how casting works. It's actually super locked down: the TV loads a netflix website and you can't create your own Chromecast receivers.

[mvdtnz]

How is this different from recording video output from a not-casted stream?