[pumkinut]

I travel occasionally for work, and hotel tv sucks. No ifs, ands, or but, it just sucks. The picture is usually crap, and the channel selection leaves a lot to be desired. I noticed at a Holiday Inn where I was staying had open HDMI ports and the ability to switch to them. So, I decided to try creating an XBMCbuntu thumbdrive, loading an external HDD full of content and using my DP to HDMI cable to see if I could run XBMCbuntu on my work laptop.

Sure enough, booting to the thumbdrive and connecting it to the hotel TV allowed me to use XBMC. I also have a USB BT dongle, so I brought along a Wii remote to allow me to control XBMC and not rely on the laptop's keyboard and/or mouse. It was fantastic, I got HD content at the hotel where TV normally is abysmal.

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