Netflix disables casting to TVs and TV streamers

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In a weird anti-customer move, Netflix has quietly disabled the ability to cast its content from mobile devices to "most TVs and TV streaming devices" like the Google TV Streamer and the older Chromecast models with remotes. You can, however, still cast to even older Chromecasts, the ones that don't come with a remote. And that's the key here - basically, if it has a remote, casting is disabled. If it doesn't have a remote, casting to it still works. Don't get us wrong, navigating Netflix with a remote might be preferable for some people versus using casting, which is oftentimes...



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