Netflix disables casting to TVs and TV streamers

In a weird anti-customer move, Netflix has quietly disabled the ability to cast its content from mobile devices to « most TVs and TV streaming devices » like the Google TV Streamer and the older Chromecast models with remotes.

You can, however, still cast to even older Chromecasts, the ones that don’t come with a remote. And that’s the key here – basically, if it has a remote, casting is disabled. If it doesn’t have a remote, casting to it still works.

Don’t get us wrong, navigating Netflix with a remote might be preferable for some people versus using casting, which is oftentimes…