Originally Posted by oilman:
“Very few have hdmi out, and really it is a bit of a pain connecting a cable anyway.
Why not do it wirelessly using a £30 chromecast dongle.
You can then use tablet as a remote control from your favourite sofa.
More importantly, is you can use a tablet of your choice, rather than be limited.
I use a kindle fire costing £35, added google playstore (fairly easy to do), added chromecast app, and I can watch any movie with ease.
Also, in many cases eg streaming Netflix or BBC Iplayer, you can even turn off tablet, once it starts streaming, saving battery.”
Chromecast works two ways. It can stream stuff from the net, with your tablet merely initiating the operation, which is what allows you to then turn it off. It's not playing content from the tablet but from the net and of course needs a network connection.
The other mode, mirroring the screen, has some drawbacks, only the screen resolution of the tablet etc.
Later Android tablets, and the Linx and other Windows tablets have
Miracast which streams HD video directly from the tablet to a Miracast TV or dongle, can play a higher resolution than the tablets own screen and doesn't need an internet connection.