Instead of watching your Slingbox feed on a mobile device or computer screen, you'd get the video on your television via a $35 dongle. Granted, you'd need both a supported app/smartphone and the Chromecast itself - and trying to do this in say a hotel might be tricky. It's conceptually and technically similar to what Sling has done with the Roku app and Airplay to Apple TV.
I thought the hotel Wi-Fi thing for Chromecast was a no-go because of the login page bypass requirement at every hotel I've ever been to. Obviously there are ways/hacks to get around this--plug your laptop into wired, share its wireless with the Chromecast, travel with a portable Wi-Fi thing, but most of these rely on a wired Ethernet connection being provided which isn't a given in many hotels. I suppose you could fake the mac address of the Chromecast from your laptop or something. Maybe I need to look into this...
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Instead of watching your Slingbox feed on a mobile device or computer screen, you'd get the video on your television via a $35 dongle. Granted, you'd need both a supported app/smartphone and the Chromecast itself - and trying to do this in say a hotel might be tricky. It's conceptually and technically similar to what Sling has done with the Roku app and Airplay to Apple TV.
I thought the hotel Wi-Fi thing for Chromecast was a no-go because of the login page bypass requirement at every hotel I've ever been to. Obviously there are ways/hacks to get around this--plug your laptop into wired, share its wireless with the Chromecast, travel with a portable Wi-Fi thing, but most of these rely on a wired Ethernet connection being provided which isn't a given in many hotels. I suppose you could fake the mac address of the Chromecast from your laptop or something. Maybe I need to look into this...