What setup do Studios have to plug in your computer to the TV?

[peacefrogdog]

Checking in at Riviera in two days. Hoping to stream some Olympic coverage from my computer to the TV ( to watch the men's hockey knockout rounds).
What inputs do the TVs have in studios? I assume I could just connect my computer to the TV using an HDMI Cable?

 

[eticketplease]

Checking in at Riviera in two days. Hoping to stream some Olympic coverage from my computer to the TV ( to watch the men's hockey knockout rounds).
What inputs do the TVs have in studios? I assume I could just connect my computer to the TV using an HDMI Cable?

There are HDMI inputs but it is a complicated setup as Disney has a box that controls everything. You might have better luck if you can chromecast to the TV

 

[Brian Noble]

I don't recall an HDMI port being easily accessible the last time I was in a RIV studio but I probably did not look that hard.

 

[muppets3d]

You can plug something in to the HDMI but you won't have any control over the TV. Probably best to try to use AirPlay from your phone or laptop to the smart TV.

 

[peacefrogdog]

There are HDMI inputs but it is a complicated setup as Disney has a box that controls everything. You might have better luck if you can chromecast to the TV

Mean plug in my chromecast into the HDMI? Or are the TV's smart TV's that have chromecast built in?

 

[muppets3d]

Mean plug in my chromecast into the HDMI? Or are the TV's smart TV's that have chromecast built in?

The Disney resort TVs have built-in casting functionality. I know they support AirPlay but they probably support Chromecast as well, I'm not sure.

 

[Brian Noble]

They have chromecast. Note that some apps/sites will not cast, and Peacock might be one of them. If you have access to Olympic broadcast via some other country's rightsholder, that might or might not be easier.

 

[CraigInPA]

When at BLT recently, I found that the TV in the living room of the 1BR has no easily accessible HDMI, while the TV in the main bedroom had one. I wanted to put my Roku stick in to watch some TV, but wasn't enthused about watching TV in bed.

 

[eticketplease]

Mean plug in my chromecast into the HDMI? Or are the TV's smart TV's that have chromecast built in?

You could do both. We leave 3 firesticks in our owners locker that way we are covered from studios to 2 bedrooms but DS has casted from an iPad before but that was at VGF. Since RIV was the first ones with the smart tvs I would assume the same is possible there.

 

[JoeyPeligroso]

My experience has been with Apple TV and an HDMI cord that I bring. I bring and store these for each visit in my Owner's Locker. There are two methods to connect HDMI devices from the device to the TV:

1) (may have issues) using the open HDMI ports on the back of the TV​

2) (preferred) connect to the empty HDMI input on a black box/controller typically mounted to the wall behind the tv. This black box seems to be the controller for the hotel-based services and often has an open input.​

In my experience, by using the open HDMI input on the black box, the television remote control can be used to control the volume, and you don’t have to adjust/move/remove any of the existing cables (which I would not recommend anyway).

Once your HDMI-based device is connected and to select the input for method #2, you do have to access the settings menu using on the television remote control provided by Disney to select the alternate HDMI input. I am not currently at the resort, so this description may not be the exact the process, but once you select the alternative input, the input and television volume should work with that HDMI port. I had issues using method #1 with controlling the volume.

I’ll be back at the resorts in a few weeks and will try to refine this description.