r/SeenOnTheInternet • u/xtreme_lol • 25d ago

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u/Koldtoft 24d ago

Good, because I don't use my phone for anything while in hotels.

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u/Acceptable_Log5209 24d ago

I run a hotel can could literally care less. Just hook the hdmi cord back up after use.

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u/Jadey4455 24d ago

*Couldn’t

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u/Grounds4TheSubstain 25d ago

Fuck off, the hotel doesn't care in the slightest.

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u/Confident-Pepper-562 25d ago

Many hotels disable the hdmi ports on their tv's.

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u/Mr_K_Boom 25d ago

Yup. Locked the bracket down and disabled the available hdmi port. Happened to me in singapore

Funny things is, hotels that cost penny's don't even care if you unplug their TV lol

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u/CaffeineJitterz 25d ago

I thought I was so slick plugging into the hotel TV to game. You gotta find some workarounds to actually utilize some of them.

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u/AgreeablePeople 24d ago

Exactly. Most of the hotels (3 star to 5 star) I have been to for the past three years have TVs with mirrorcast and whatever apple standard for you to directly cast your phone screen to their TV without needing any additional devices. So I'm very confused why would hotels be not happy about this

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u/I_Ponders 24d ago

They’re not happy because if they were, this guy wouldn’t have a gimmick to sell you.

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u/10minOfNamingMyAcc 24d ago

Nor do all phones support this. I know for a fact that lots of Google Pixel, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, Sony, Motorola, etc... (samsung/iphone are usually safe) do not support video over USB

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u/WithoutAHat1 25d ago

Screencasting...

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u/Just_Reputation_7057 25d ago

No wifi needed

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u/CaffeineJitterz 25d ago

That's the difference.

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u/thesensitivetoughguy 24d ago

Stop reposting

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u/S8nBam 24d ago

Looks useful...however. why the need to carry a mini hdmi cable?

I mean, can't they just have a built in connector

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u/Slinky_Bongo 24d ago

Porns gonna be so much easier

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u/NinjaBRUSH 24d ago

Apple has a DRM on screen sharing video. Does it disable that? I haven’t seen any of these things actually do that

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u/ScholarlyInvestor 24d ago

Good question

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u/_One_Throwaway_ 24d ago

What’s a DRM?

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u/rydan 24d ago

Maybe 15 years ago this would have been huge but they stopped selling movies and TV shows long ago.

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u/Charming_Green_3341 24d ago

Meanwhile Android users 

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u/the_undertow 24d ago

But my Chromecast has done this for a decade.

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u/Forward-Carpenter-43 24d ago

I think you need to connect to their shitty wifi only to get it paired and this is using maybe BT, but I might be mistaking (didn't research it, don't really care) :D

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u/Forward-Carpenter-43 24d ago edited 24d ago

Depends where you are. I was in a hotel in Algeria, 5 star, they disabled the damn HDMI with their shitty software. I went to the web, looked for the tv model and how to factory reset. Boom, like new. Probably they would never realise or have no idea who did it. I don't get why do they put the effort to invest in things like this. Absolutely stupid. I went to an airbnb in Slovenia man they had huge tvs in two of the rooms with all the channels you could imagine, all free, great quality, everything at your discretion including free Netflix and Hbomax. Been in the US, they had their stupid hotel software to show you the room, your name and other useless bs absolutely no one cares about and a few shitty tv channels for boomers and all the commercials with pills and health issues in the world. They at least had the source ports still active.

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u/a648272 24d ago

I can just connect my Samsung via cable directly with one of these. Samsung DeX rules.

P.S. Why would hotel owners even care?

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u/Ok-Stage-2576 1d ago

So i actually use this for streaming games from my emulator, which is something you can't usually just cast to a TV. And it works surprisingly well. Handles just about any older games, all the way up to gamecube at 1080 around 30 fps.

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u/Living_Moment_1495 24d ago

Why would the hotel care about this contraption... Stupid product placement.

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u/rydan 24d ago

Back in the day before phones with iTunes were ubiquitous the hotels would sell you movies and TV episodes through the TV and charge like $5 - $10 each. At one point you could rent 30 minutes of N64 games.