Google Cast will come to more TVs in hotel rooms later this year

Google Cast, perhaps better known as Chromecast, makes it pretty easy to get content from virtually any device onto a TV, and soon it’ll be coming to more hotel rooms.

The Google Cast standard, recently renamed “Chromecast,” allows TVs to wirelessly accept input from smartphones, tablets, and laptops, whether they’re running Android, iOS, Windows, ChromeOS, or macOS. To do this, in a simplified way, it transmits the video stream from some type of application or website and transmits it to the TV or the device connected to the TV. It works quite well and the standard has become widely available over the years.

In hotel rooms, however, finding Google Cast is pretty hit or miss.

Announced this week, more LG TVs installed in hotel rooms will support Google Cast. This will come via new software provided by SONIFI, a company specializing in “hotel technology”. LG TVs in hotel rooms will be equipped with Google Cast, allowing users to connect to their TV and stream any compatible apps (YouTube, Disney+, Max, etc.) using a QR code to pair them. This will be integrated into SONIFI’s existing “STAYCAST” platform which allows users to log in to applications on the TV and log out of applications at the end of the stay (check-out).

SONIFI’s solution is in place in more than 500,000 hotel rooms around the world, and Google Cast support will be rolled out starting in “fall” 2024.

LG TVs also now support Google Cast for consumer TVs.

It also comes as Apple has made deals to bring AirPlay to hotel rooms. And while that’s great for Apple users, AirPlay is a standard that doesn’t work on any device without the Apple stamp on the back, where Google Cast is as close to universal as we have today .

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