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This sleek little dongle, called Plair, is a neat little solution for slinging video from any number of devices to your TV. Simply plug it into an empty HDMI port and beam media to it via Wi-Fi.
Sure, there are plenty other ways to do that already—principally Airplay and the upcoming Miracast—but this is a perfectly neat solution, too. With custom apps for Android, iOS, OS X and Windows, it lets you throw local video, network shows or content from a raft of websites—YouTube, ESPN, NBC, Fox, and plenty more—to the TV in question. Seems particularly straightforward for people who aren’t after anything too fancy.
Available in late January this year, it should cost around £60—which might well make it worth a look if you’re after a simple way to stream video to your dumb TV. [Plair]
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Nice looking device but seems a bit over-designed for something that you’ll stick behind your TV where no one can see it. I’d like a device that works the same way but has an HDMI port, like a pass-thru, in it as all three of my ports are already filled.
Are we entering a state of hyper inflation or something? The price jumped up £10 in the time it took me to read the article!
What are the alternatives to this just now? Seems like a decent idea, especially for devices that don’t have an HDMI out such as my Nexus 7..
I’m after something that goes the opposite way…
My AV receiver has 2 HDMI outputs, one for my Projector, and the other for a secondary display and is currently unused… I’d love to stick a dongle in there and have it take HDMI output and send it over the network for my devices to pick up over wifi. Then I can have Freeview on my laptop in the kitchen or bedroom.. VLC can pick up streams over the network, but I can’t find a device that does this at a good price – anyone heard of such a thing?
It sounds like you’re looking for a Slingbox.
Or it would be if Slingbox supported HDMI and not just Component HD.
I saw the slingbox, looked good, but the pricetag with the lack of HDMI was a bit annoying… paying that much you’d want HD… but i’ll give it another look, thanks for the suggestion
yer i would love an HDMI in with audio somehow on my laptop.. could still play xbox then when SHE needs to watch Holby City!!
or simply visit tvcatchup.com
Hey.. My Tvs not dumb.. just a bit mentally challenged..
Sounds nifty, but I just use a really long HDMI cable.
Pretty cool but pretty pricey!
It suggests as though downloaded TV and Movies can’t be ‘beamed’ to the PLAiR. Only YouTube videos are content providers that have signed an agreement with PLAiR (A bit ridiculous really, it’s our content why can’t we watch it on a larger screen?) so stuff like iPlayer, 4oD etc won’t work. It also doesn’t work with any iTunes content.
yeah seems to do half as much as an android hdmi dongle at twice the price… sign me up (not)
fuck you for half stealing my idea :@