With Roku, it sounds like you install apps on the device. With Chromecast, you simply install the app on your smartphone. Then when you call up an app (like Netflix), the Chromecast automatically pulls down what it needs without needing to permanently install an app on it. In the end, it works out to be the same.

Yeah, that's one of the biggest reasons I continue with a desktop client as well - I have easily a half-dozen accounts, and I like to check them all in the same app, but not in the same view (I prefer separate inboxes and the ability to view each of them independently, send from each one independently, etc).

I had all my media stuff on a hard drive. Someone then left said hard drive on a radiator and melted it. If i hadn't had it all backed up on crashplan I would have lost almost 800 GB worth of movies and TV shows. Well worth the investment

Best I can get is the 100/5 in my area (I'm on the 50/3). And even if I could get the 250/15 I'm not sure I could justify the price. I could get a lot of Google Drive storage for a fraction of the increase from 50/3. 3Mbps is just enough that it's not terrible - and I do get the full 3Mbps.

Yeah - I have a NAS too. But my upstream is garbage - and the WD Cloud software isn't very good either. But at least it runs Debian underneath so I've got it running Bittorrent Sync and a few other things to make my life easier.

I had a 3 TB Western Digital NAS drive similar to the one you pasted in, and it completely failed on me within months of using it. While it did basically provide all of the benefits of Google Drive including cloud access from anywhere, I have less concern that Google Drive will fail and I won't have to send it back to…

And obviously, it's all about use case. If you're just watching movies at home, then yeah, you'd have no reason to do this. But if you watch movies a lot on the go, and you do it enough that it's worth the money, it's a great new option to do so.

That's certainly true - storage is always going to be cheaper if you host it yourself. If you want to carry around a portable 2TB drive - awesome, go for it. If you want to be able to access your files/media without carrying a drive around, and are willing to pay a bit more for it - awesome, go for it.

You need more than 20FPS for your car installation? Watch the road, bucko.

Thats why its called SYNC. You are talking about backup or archive, of which they are plenty of programs out there to do that. BT Sync is BT Sync because you want the folders kept in SYNC.

Is this ok for those with puppies or kittens that spend all day on the carpet, then lick themselves?

That's a shame, I built my first PC with Tigerdirect parts and some stuff I got off Ebay way back in 2001. The Ebay stuff died and I went with TD again. Their stuff was still working (with a few upgrades) for 10 years when I decided it was time to build a new PC. I ordered from TD again and the only beef I had was…

Also...If you are motorcycle enthusiast who rides without a helmet, please be sure to have an update to date organ donor card. There is a long wait list for hearts, kidneys, livers, etc and folks on the list can really use them.