Like many of us these days, I work from home. Unlikely many of you, I've been doing it for 17 or so years. But I'm not leaving the house for meetings or attending events and conferences. They're all online too, and while I have enough screen space on my desk with a 15" laptop and two 27" monitors, I sometimes fancy a change of scene and a different way of working.
Up to March that would have been a walk down to the coffee shop, but that's not really practical. So I've been looking at how I can use other rooms in the house to get a change of scene and away from looking down at my laptop.
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We've recently upgraded our main TV, going from a LCD monitor hooked up to an Xbox to a 46" 4K Panasonic semi-smart TV. I say semi-smart, as it has built in apps for common streaming services, but avoids built-in web browsers or voice assistants. What it does have, though, are 4 different HDMI ports and a couple of USB sockets, which makes it a useful tool for video meetings as well as for watching web conferences.
I started with Microsoft's original Wireless Display adapter[2]. This uses Windows' built-in Miracast support to project from a PC to the screen. The device itself looks like a HDMI dongle with a short connection to a USB plug. Connect the two to appropriate ports on the TV, so it's powered, before connecting to the adapter from a PC and projecting to the screen.
As I was working from a Surface Book 3, the