4K Casting on 4K Android TVs?

by TexAgMJ

Can you chromecast/"google cast" 4K (like Netflix 4K) content with a 4K Android TV (like Nvidia Shield)?

Andrroid

Yes. Why wouldnt you be able to?

navytank

The short answer is "no, but one can hope".

In theory, there's no reason it wouldn't. However, in practice there are a few limitations:

  • Cast doesn't currently support HEVC, either on Chromecast or casting to Android TV. Android TV supports HEVC decoding so in theory Google could add this.
  • Since the Chromecast doesn't support 4k, none of the Cast apps currently stream 4k video content.

Hopefully that will change over time, since not only the NVidia Shield supports 4k but also some of the Sony BRAVIA Android TVs.