These Amazon gadgets simply bought an open various to Chromecast, AirPlay

Google’s Chromecast and Apple’s AirPlay are the casting requirements of alternative on tens of millions of gadgets around the globe. Now, Amazon has introduced the adoption of a brand new, open casting various on its merchandise.

Amazon revealed at CES 2024 that it’s bringing the Matter Casting commonplace to Echo Present 15 and Hearth TV gadgets. This may permit customers to solid from their Android or iOS gadgets to the aforementioned Amazon devices. In actual fact, Amazon claims that that is an industry-first implementation.

The retail colossus confirmed that Matter Casting is out there now for customers who need to solid Prime Video content material from their Android/iOS machine to the Echo Present 15. Nevertheless, the corporate defined that the open casting commonplace is coming to Hearth TV merchandise within the “coming months.”

What else to learn about Matter Casting?

Amazon particularly talked about in a weblog publish that Panasonic TVs with Hearth TV will obtain the casting protocol, however what about different Hearth TV merchandise?

“Matter Casting will work on most of our Hearth TV gadgets, together with the Hearth TV Omni QLED Collection, Hearth TV Stick 4K Max, Hearth TV Dice, in addition to lots of our good TVs with Hearth TV inbuilt. We’ll have a full record of appropriate gadgets nearer to launch within the coming months,” Amazon instructed Android Authority in response to a query about particular Hearth TV merchandise receiving Matter Casting assist.

The corporate additionally famous that it was working with Plex, Pluto TV, Sling TV, STARZ, and ZDF to implement Matter Casting assist “later this yr.”

Both means, we’re glad to see an open various to Google and Apple’s casting protocols. This might make life simpler for folks with gadgets from a number of ecosystems, permitting for hassle-free casting between these disparate merchandise.