Last week while staying at the Marriott in Kansas City, I found this thing on my desk:<\/p>\n

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Maybe I’ve been staying in the wrong hotels, but I’ve never seen one of these before. It’s basically an A\/V interface box that connects to the television in the room. The unit, which was sitting on the desk, had three sets of video inputs: HDMI, VGA, and composite. It also had RCA inputs for audio, along with an 1\/8″ input jack. Anything plugged into this box got routed directly to the television.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I came unprepared to give the box a serious testing. I thought I had a VGA cable in my backpack bag but didn’t, and my laptop doesn’t do HDMI-out or composite out. Also, if you’ll remember, I returned my iPod video out cables<\/a> earlier this spring, so that was a no-go as well. I could definitely see connecting our small, portable DVD player to this box and letting the kids watch videos on the television vs. the unit’s small, 9″ screen, but I didn’t have the DVD player there for testing. <\/p>\n

My official review of the input box is, “this looks like a neat thing that I was unaware existed and unprepared to test.” I guess I’ll throw a couple of spare video cables into my bag for the next time I run across one of these. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week while staying at the Marriott in Kansas City, I found this thing on my desk: Maybe I’ve been staying in the wrong hotels, but I’ve never seen one of these before. It’s basically an A\/V interface box that connects to the television in the room. The unit, which was sitting on the desk, had three sets of video inputs: HDMI, VGA, and composite. It also had RCA inputs for audio, along with an 1\/8″ input jack. Anything plugged into this box got routed directly to the television. Unfortunately, I came unprepared to give the box a serious testing.… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}