Originally Posted by
nzkarit
Casting will be interesting. Is it proprietary or standard Google Cast & do a thing like hotel rooms so can only cast to your seat?
Is a bit a shame that a lot of streaming apps won't cast pre downloaded content. (Even if streaming capable Wi-Fi on planes I would still most probably pre download, better UX).
I suspect it's unlikely to be an actual "Chromecast" solution but likely to be something that replicates the experience.
In terms of casting your own downloaded content that's not something that can work because that's not how casting works. When you "cast" content from your phone/tablet to a TV it's primarily just an initial handshake where your phone tells the TV "hey can you stream this content from this URL" and the TV then goes away and does that. It does not actually send the content via the phone/tablet directly to the screen.
The original gen1 / gen 2 / gen 3 Chromecast devices could only display video and use HTML for all the graphics but later generation Chromecast devices based on Android TV will typically parse the casting requests directly to the app - ie you cast from Netflix or YouTube and it'll then open the Netflix or YouTube app on the Android TV device to handle the playback. A data path remains open to the phone / tablet for control of the video so you can stop/pause it.
The problem with Chromecast type solutions is that while the concept is incredibly good it's not something that scales that well. In a hotel environment where deploy them they are a nightmare as every commercial solution out there is effectively one big hack to make something work in a way that it was never intended to.