There are many folks who don’t have a TV capable of running Plex (or a means to attach one); but so many devices natively support Chromecast, or the user can afford the $30 to buy one. Could you please add support for using Watch Together over a cast connection?
My personal scenario is a family with folks “leaving the nest” - we want to continue our family movie nights, but some of our members don’t have any Plex-capable device aside from their phone. But their TV’s all have Chromecasts on them … a perfect solution if Plex can support it for us!
As noted in our previous announcement, our existing Watch Together functionality will not be included in our new experience apps on launch, which are currently in preview and will be released broadly in the future.
As such, we’re closing related feature suggestions in order to give back those votes, so that you can vote for something else.
We do not preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, as we also noted in our announcement. Should that happen, then feature suggestions like this one and others would certainly be considered during that development.
A new suggestion related to adding Watch Together to our new experience apps has already been raised and you’re welcome to comment or vote on that suggestion.
