The full compatibility list, from the Store description, is Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Apple TV (AirPlay), DLNA Smart TV, Miracast, Internet Box, XBOX One, XBOX 360 or, of course, any streaming-compatible SmartTV that has one of those standards built-in. Playcast certainly isn't finished yet, but it's certainly reviewable now. With only minor caveats, of which more below.
This is now the case, after an update a few days ago - I've been browsing around my Lumia's captured photos and videos, playing back locally saved music videos, media on Dropbox and Google Drive, and so on. Both applications are ambitious, but Playcast has had more than its fair share of quirks and glitches, leading me to delay review until it was truly usable.
But Playcast is unashamedly Windows 10 only and is designed to use local content on the phone, streaming it over Wifi to any compatible screen. We already had Tubecast from the same developer, which uses the Chromecast's own YouTube capabilities to control YouTube playback from a Windows Phone - and pretty reliably now. In fact, this review has been in the offing now for six months, since Playcast first appeared.
Playcast is a UWP application for Windows 10 Mobile that attempts to bring sense into the world of casting whether it's to a Miracast-capable TV or to a Google Chromecast accessory, presenting your own media to the destination player in a sensible and hopefully glitch-free fashion. We've had screen sharing and DLNA and so forth for a while, on all platforms and all devices, though sprinkled with rather a lot of compatibility issues. The concept of 'casting' content from phone to TV or other media player isn't new, of course.
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