Internet TV platform Zattoo has launched an OTT app for Google’s TV stick Chromecast across Europe.

The owners of TV sets can thereby take the live-streams of TV channels onto their TV screen even if the TV set is not a connected TV model with internet access. Smartphone, tablet or laptop can be used as a remote control for TV reception via Zattoo.

Chromecast (Google)With the Zattoo app, DTT or cable households gain access to TV channels otherwise not available to them, for example HD channels. The Chromecast stick which Google rolled out in Europe in March 2014 is plugged into the TV set’s HDMI slot and connected to the internet via Wi-Fi.

Zattoo’s Chromecast app is available in all European markets in which Zattoo is present, Jörg Meyer, vice-president content & consumer at Zattoo, told Broadband TV News. “Chromecast is a convenient way to use Zattoo on all customary TV sets,” said Meyer. “For Zattoo, the Chromecast support is an important factor in further establishing internet TV as an equal distribution pathway for TV content next to cable, IPTV, satellite and DTT.”