Chromecast: Playing Hard to Get

Many respondents to our poll say they're still finding Google's streaming TV dongle is sold out all over.

Dan Jones, Mobile Editor

August 26, 2013

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Many of you want to try Google's new Chromecast streaming TV device but are finding it hard to get your hands on the dongle.

Seventy-three of the 352 respondents to our Chromecast survey said that you want a Chromecast dongle but are finding that they are sold out everywhere. Sixty-two of you ordered one as soon as you heard of it.

A sizable number of readers are hoping the advent of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)'s Chromecast and cheaper TV streaming will change the model for cable operators over time. Sixty-nine respondents hope cable operators will start to offer an "a la carte" choice of TV channels, rather than forcing subscribers buy a massive package of channels they don't actually watch.

Fifty-eight of you say that Chromecast will change nothing, and that you'll be hanging on to your cable package. Only 40 readers said live access to sports coverage is keeping them on cable.

Check out our next poll here.

— Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, Light Reading

About the Author

Dan Jones

Mobile Editor

Dan is to hats what Will.I.Am is to ridiculous eyewear. Fedora, trilby, tam-o-shanter -- all have graced the Jones pate during his career as the go-to purveyor of mobile essentials.

But hey, Dan is so much more than 4G maps and state-of-the-art headgear. Before joining the Light Reading team in 2002 he was an award-winning cult hit on Broadway (with four 'Toni' awards, two 'Emma' gongs and a 'Brian' to his name) with his one-man show, "Dan Sings the Show Tunes."

His perfectly crafted blogs, falling under the "Jonestown" banner, have been compared to the works of Chekhov. But only by Dan.

He lives in Brooklyn with cats.

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