12/15/2020: Big screen video chat, revisited

While the big screen is a more natural place for video chat than your phone or a computer—you can virtually sit across the room from someone instead of being up close with their face—few companies were interested in facilitating such interactions pre-pandemic. As such, using your TV for video chat probably meant plugging your laptop into the television with an HDMI cable or relying on clunky screen mirroring methods.