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Me too, that would be great.

I would love that too so the wife could send XMBC content from her tablet to a bigger TV screen.

Exactly - I'd love to have something like that when traveling for business. Not exactly convenient to carry a descent size HDMI cable with you, but bringing along a dongle that you can stream too from XBMC on a laptop would be fantastic. A hell of a lot better than watching XBMC on your laptop or tablet.

The Chromecast doesn't work in most hotels. It doesn't support the standard wifi authentication portals that most hotels use, and it won't work in networks configured with AP Isolation which most hotels have enabled. You could bring a laptop and install software to make the laptop work like a router to share the wifi network connection, but that's a PITA and you're probably better off just connecting the laptop to the TV with HDMI.

This limitation of the Chromecast was disappointing to me, and if I'm being honest it's just one of several disappointments with the device. I had thought this thing was a bargain at $35, but for a few months it's served as nothing but a mediocre Netflix streamer so I guess the price is about fair IMO.