Originally Posted By: DWallach
New Nexus 7 tablet: Also, the MicroUSB port supports SlimPort, which seems kinda cool.

SlimPort does look cool, and is an official DisplayPort variant. I'm wondering how this will compete with MHL though. Woo more "standards" and device specific dongles...

Originally Posted By: DWallach
Chromecasting: Chrome is now bloated up with cross-platform remote display support. They already have this today with the Android YouTube app (where I can forward a video from my Android phone app to my GoogleTV). I'm guessing this is an admission that GoogleTV penetration has been poor and they're trying to do something cheap and ubiquitous for everybody else. For $35, they may be onto something. There's also a "Google Cast SDK".

Is it actually remote display support though? Everything I'm seeing indicates a device hands off a stream URL with a timecode to the Chromecast, similar to the Google TV Youtube support. Full on device screen mirroring has been handy for when apps don't have the streaming standard support built in.

Also kinda not happy with the name, seems to be diluting Chrome even more. Is it a browser, operating system, portable computer, or stream handoff protocol? Eerily parallel to when Microsoft slapped the .Net name on everything leading to confusion (and thankfully pulled back some before release on certain products).