The Chromecast has a Netflix promotion, and... it’s gone

Google is no longer offering three months of Netflix with the device.

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Ars of Ares[/url]":3oeucgdf]I'm reading reports that HDMI 1.4 will power the device. Ars Technica, do you have one of these things to test this out?

Nothing of v1.4 HDMI specifications mentions power. So the reports you're reading are wrong.

 

[notoriousKTR]

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notoriousKTR[/url]":wg2auaay]

Ars of Ares[/url]":wg2auaay]I'm reading reports that HDMI 1.4 will power the device. Ars Technica, do you have one of these things to test this out?

Nothing of v1.4 HDMI specifications mentions power. So the reports you're reading are wrong.

That's not strictly true, HDMI does have a 5V power line. It's only supposed to be for EDID reading (according to the HDMI resource page), but at least one user account on Amazon claims that the Chromecast can power itself off the HDMI power line. It'd be unreliable since the spec doesn't require the HDMI line to provide enough current to power an active device like the Chromecast, but technically possible, as most of them do.

Power for DDC/EDID isn't something newly introduced with HDMI v1.4 or HDMI for that matter.

And 5V DC @ ~50mA is not enough (as you mentioned) to power the 1W idle, 2.5W load of the ChromeCast.