‘s Chromecast goes on sale in Europe Canada

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 19 Mar 2014

’s multimedia streaming device Chromecast is now available in 11 more countries, including , Germany the U.K.

The Chromecast is a thumb-sized media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port of a TV. Users can then send content content via a -Fi network from YouTube, ay Movies, ay Music or Netflix using their smartphone, tablet or laptop.

cal content that can be viewed using the Chromecast includes BBC’s iayer in the U.K.; TV uzz SFR TV in with Canalay coming soon, tchever in Germany with Maxdome also coming soon, said in a blog post.

In addition to those countries, the Chromecast is now also available in Canada, Denmark, Finl, Italy, the Netherls, Norway, Spain Sweden. It costs £30 ($50) or €35 including tax, is available from Amazon.com, ay, Currys rld, Elkjøp, FNAC, Saturn t, among other outlets.

hopes to bring the device to more countries soon.

The streaming hardware sector is getting increasingly crowded with TVs, set top boxes, game consoles separate products like Roku all having integrated support for services like Netflix. But it seems like it is about to get even more crowded, with Amazon reported to be ready to launch its own device. The company already offers a streaming video service with ime Instant Video.

To help differentiate the Chromecast from the competition is hoping to increase the number of apps that can run on it. The company released the Cast SDK last month over 3,000 developers have signed up for it, said. How many applications that will result in remains to be seen. Amazon, on the other h, is considering streaming games to set its product apart, according to rumors.

Chromecast works with Android tablets smartphones; Apple’s iones ids devices; the Chrome browser for ndows Mac, ’s own Chromebooks.

The Chromecast was originally launched in the U.S. in ly last year.