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For $20, this was a no-brainer purchase, even if my primary use ends up being streaming to hotel TVs.

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I must be confused, but where are you seeing this for $20?

EDIT: I figured out that it is $19 for Prime members. Leaving this up for anyone else that may be confused.

Prime members get a discount: http://idzr.org/y27y

I have prime and I'm not seeing that price, even in my cart. Is it expired?

It is there on checkout, but not in your cart. There is a banner at the top that states this on the product page, but it's pretty easy to miss as it looks like an advertisement.

The banner says "Discount at checkout." It stays $39 in cart but when you Proceed to Checkout, it shows Prime Savings of $20.

Are you sure this will work in Hotel Wifis? I tried in the past with Google stick and couldn't get it to work because of something with getting both devices on the Wifi. I think it had to do with the fact that you needed to open a browser to accept some terms before allowing the device access to the network.

And then there's the issue of hotel WiFi having enough bandwidth to stream efficiently without stutter.

I am assuming that over time the average hotel WiFi will get faster. I also frequently hook my Macbook up to the wired internet and share it over a private wireless network, which typically solves the ToC-via-web problem.

It looks like they are going to account for this. From their Fire TV page:

"Coming soon—take Fire TV Stick with you to use with HDTVs in hotels, college dorms, or anywhere with captive portal Internet access that requires entering a password or a log-in. "

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