at-visions integrates Chromecast
Right on time with Googles information about Chromecasts further international roll-
out at-visions is happy to announce the integration of Chromecast with its ONEvision Hotel TV solution.Providing guests the opportunity to connect their devices to the in-room TV for playing
content they prefer is one of the most wished for features. However, there are lots of ways to provide this feature, depending on type of device, type of content, type of TV etc.
And no way actually has only pros. This is easily explained with a look at where the
content to play really resides. Content stored locally on the guests device should obviously be streamed directly to the TV without going out of the property and back inside using the scarce ressource Internet bandwidth. But what about content out in the cloud? Is it really the best way to use the guests device to receive content via Internet and then stream it to the TV? Wouldn't it be better to just "tell" the TV which content to play and let it do the streaming by itself? Well, that is exactly the functionality Googles Chromecast provides. Based on the DIAL (Discovery and Launch) Protocol it receives the information what to play from the guests device, launches the necessary app (like Netflix, Youtube, BBC iplayer etc.) and starts playing. This way the guests device doesn't have to stream, is normally useable to browse or check e-mails, doesn't drain battery power etc. because it is just controlling (pause, set volume) what is played on the TV while Chromecast is doing all the hard work."We really like the idea behind Googles Chromecast and the DIAL protocol and the
sales figures in the US speak for themself. Using your smart device as the best userinterface available for searching for content and having it then played frictionless by the TV without blocking the device any longer makes a lot of sense. Together with the established ONEvisions ability to handle locally stored content from guests devices this is combining the best of two worlds," comments Mr. Roman Kirisits, CEO & Owner of at- visions.Chromecast is a trademark of Google Inc.
About at-visions:
at-visions GmbH is a strongly expanding company which offers a tailor-made in-room entertainment system based
on IP (ONEvision™), industry-sector specific digital signage solutions (ONEsignage™), mobile Apps (ONEapp™), HSIA services (ONEspeed™) and IT- consulting.Customers of at-visions are e.g. Atlantis The Palm, Kempinski, Hyatt, IHG, Pan Pacific, Ramada, The Ritz Paris,
One&Only and Sandy Lane.at-visions has a partner network of resellers and its own branches to cover Europe, US, the Middle East, Asia and
Australia.at-visions GmbH
Gewerbepark 11
7412 Wolfau
Austria
http://www.at-visions.com
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