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[D'ultimate]

I'm using a Windows 8 tablet. If you don't have one, you could use a laptop.

Its actually pretty easy tbh, the smartglass method I posted was pretty convoluted.

The simple method is:

-Open metro version of internet explorer.

-Go to whatever site you want to go to and start playing the video.

-Open the charms menu (top/bottom right coners or press Windows+C)

-Click "Devices".

-Click "Play"

-Click on "Xbox 360"

And it will start playing whatever media you are playing (youtube vide/BBC iPlayer video etc) on the 360.


The smart glass method I explained was a workaround for if you're browsing on the XB1 and come across a page that requires flash to view a video for instance.

While using smartglass as a mouse/keyboard for 360 internet explorer, you can swipe up from the botton of the screen/right click to bring up a menu.

One of the options in the menu is the "play here" option, which snaps smartglass to the side and opens up the current web page your 360 is showing in metro Internet Explorer. You can then use the same method as above to start streaming the content from that site onto your 360.


Its a bit long winded, especially to explain, but it seems to be a fix for a problem that hopefully doesn't exist now Major Nelson has said XB1 supports flash.

We'll see.



FFFFUUUUUUUUUU GIVE ME MY FIVE MINUTES OF MY LIFE BACK!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for this. Just tried it on the 360 from my laptop. Easy breezy.
Awesomesauce!!

 

[Alx]

Sounds pretty cool. The only thing missing would be a speech to text feature, to be able to write messages just by speaking.

 

[GrizzleBoy]

I've never used Win8 on a touch device, but I think Chrome is fine on Android and sufficient enough on iOS, what is missing from the Win8 version?

I don't know if its different now as I pretty much ditched chrome around this time last year when I bought my W8 tablet but it being choppy as hell when scrolling (in general tbh) and no pinch to zoom are standout things I remember.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Music and Video streaming paywall?

I'm not trying to start anything but I'm not fine with that at all.



Pretty sure I read Chrome is the only browser that does this.

That's because you read a bunch of shit by people who don't know what they're talking about.

Here's Firefox.

Incidentally, Firefox is actually *worse* than Chrome, because

1) You only have to click 1 button and it shows you every single password, whereas Chrome requires you to click 1 button for each password you want to see
2) If you don't use a master password in Firefox (which less than 0.5% of people use), your passwords are stored unencrypted on disk, which means someone can extract them from your disk (say they find your HD in a junkyard, for example) whereas in Chrome they are encrypted with your OS account login information.

 

[Somnid]

Voice navigation is nice. I'd love to be able to use my other browsers by talking at them, especially when my hands are full or I'm trying to watch something while I eat.