How lack of Apple TV support made me move from #Instacast to @Dropcast

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The small button at the bottom of
the right side is the Apple TV button.
Here I waned to se Robert Scoble in HD!
Listening to podcasts eventually made me look at video podcasts. New podcasts are popping up all the time, and so the next is to be able see them on your TV. Alas - Instacast didn’t have support for Airplay on Apple TV. I checked if Dropcast had and yes! That made me shell out for my third paid podcast app.

Afterwards I had to wonder - I was so utterly satisfied with Instacast, and couldn’t understand why a guy like Marco Arment preferred Dropcast. But the last time he spoke about it I did remember the word Airplay. That was the trigger word for me!

There is also something good with deleting apps — all the data are erased — and as I had 61 unplayed podcasts this is a major cleaning-up! Dropcast has now Instacast place on my home-screen.

Dropcast also had a nice speed feature letting me listen in 125% and 150% speed. A feature that’s come very handy if you try to find something in a long podcast.

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