However, it's not a perfect and perfectly seamless experience. We got an early look at the Connect SDK in action and it does work as advertised, successfully sending YouTube videos and even triggering Netflix on a multitude of devices. Despite the webOS history here, websites themselves can't directly set up streams to televisions as they can with Chromecast, but LG says it's looking into ways to make that happen. Because what gets streamed in most cases is based on HTML5, LG says that developers can easily set up local HTTP streaming services on their devices to stream local content. Unlike AirPlay, most videos streamed with the Connect SDK will come directly from the internet - just as the Chromecast works. LG has published a chart of supported features. The trick is that LG is abstracting all those different ways of streaming so that the developer only needs to use and implement a single set of commands like play, pause, and so on.
Instead of proposing another new standard to replace all of the above, it's creating a software toolkit that supports as many of them as possible. Streaming media is essentially a giant mess of failed standards and fragmentation - at least if you don't live entirely in the Apple ecosystem.Įnter LG, which is trying to boost its TV credentials following the launch of its webOS televisions. Other attempts to compete with AirPlay like DIAL and DLNA have failed because of technical problems or lack of support. Apple TV's AirPlay is the most popular, but recently Chromecast has garnered a lot of attention. The basic problem LG is trying to solve is fragmentation: each TV platform has a slightly different way of getting media streamed to it.
LG says that Apple TV support is also in the works, but isn't supported at launch. At launch, it supports Roku, Chromecast, FireTV, webOS TVs, and some LG TVs.
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It's an open-source project that's designed to allow iOS and Android devices to stream video and photos to as many television devices as possible. LG today is releasing something it's calling "Connect SDK" to app developers.
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