How to Show 360 Booth Videos on a TV at Your Event

Why a screen changes the room

A 360 booth is a strange thing to watch from the outside. The guest inside is having a great time, the arm is spinning, and everyone else sees… an arm spinning. The finished clip — the part that actually looks spectacular — gets watched later, alone, on a phone. Put that clip on a screen next to the booth and the whole dynamic changes: people see the output before they decide whether to queue, they point at friends they recognise, and the booth stops being a black box in the corner.

It also solves a very practical problem. Guests who have already had their turn tend to drift away, and their clip goes with them. A screen keeps the results in the room for everyone — including the client who hired you, who is far more likely to book again after watching guests crowd around a slideshow of their own event than after receiving a folder of files the next morning.

What you actually need

Less than most operators expect. The requirements come down to a screen that can display a web page and an internet connection at the venue:

• A TV with a browser. Most smart TVs from the last decade have one, often buried in an app drawer. If it opens a web page, it can show a slideshow.
• Or any HDMI streaming stick. If the venue's TV is a plain panel with no smart features — common in hotels and conference rooms — a cheap streaming stick with a browser turns it into one. This is worth keeping in your kit permanently; it costs less than a set of gels and saves the evening more than once.
• Or the venue's projector. Anything with an HDMI input works the same way. A projector on a side wall is a dramatic option for large rooms, with one caveat: projectors need the lights lower than a TV does.
• Internet for both devices. The screen and your recording phone each need a connection. Venue Wi-Fi is usually fine; if it isn't, your phone's hotspot with the TV joined to it works.

What you don't need: a laptop, a capture card, a second operator, or any cable running from the booth to the screen. Anything that requires you to stay near the TV during the event defeats the purpose — you should be running the booth, not babysitting a slideshow.

Three ways to get clips on a screen

1. Mirror your phone. Screen mirroring is the fastest thing to try: nothing to configure, and it works with whatever is on your phone. The problems show up within ten minutes. Your phone is now dedicated to the screen, so it can't be the recording device. Every notification you receive is projected in front of the guests. And mirroring drops the moment the phone sleeps or someone takes a call. Fine for a quick demo, painful for a five-hour wedding.

2. Copy files to a USB stick. Most TVs play video from USB, and this works with no internet at all — genuinely useful in a basement venue with no signal. The cost is that it's manual: you export clips, copy them across, and re-insert the stick, which means the screen is always showing the past rather than the last guest. Realistically you'll do it twice and then stop.

3. A slideshow the booth software feeds by itself. If your booth app can push recent clips to a screen over the internet, the screen updates itself as you record and needs no attention. That's the setup worth aiming for: hands-off during the event, current at all times, and your phone stays free to keep recording. The trade-off is that it needs a working connection, so it's worth testing the venue's Wi-Fi before the guests arrive.

Setting it up so it looks good

• Expect bars on portrait clips. 360 booth output is usually vertical, and a TV is horizontal. A vertical clip shown properly on a landscape screen has black bars either side — that's correct behaviour, not a fault. Cropping to fill the screen would cut the guest's head off.
• Keep the sound off. The room already has music, and a slideshow competing with the DJ is the fastest way to be asked to turn it down. The visuals carry it.
• Place the screen where the queue is, not behind the booth where only you can see it. The point is that people waiting — and people deciding whether to wait — can watch.
• Check the TV before doors open. Find the browser, confirm it loads a page, and check the Wi-Fi actually reaches that corner of the room. Doing this while guests watch is a bad look, and venue Wi-Fi that works at reception sometimes doesn't reach the ballroom.
• Mind the older sets. Hotel and hall TVs are frequently five to ten years old, and their browsers are older still. Anything that depends on a modern browser feature may simply show a blank screen there, so test with the actual TV rather than assuming.

How it works in Easy 360

Easy360 calls this Big Screen, and it's included for every account — there's nothing to buy. On the TV, open easy360.net/tv in the browser; the page shows a 6-digit code, valid for ten minutes. In the app, go to Settings → Big Screen, type that code and tap Connect. The slideshow starts on its own and plays your recent clips with the event name on screen, adding each new recording automatically as you work — no cable, no laptop, and nothing to touch on the TV for the rest of the night.

You stay in control while it's running. Any clip can be hidden from the slideshow with one tap if a guest asks or something didn't land well, and "Disconnect all TVs" cuts every paired screen at once. Because the pages behind it are built for old TV browsers, it also runs on sets far older than you'd expect — we've had it playing on a 2014 smart TV whose browser predates most of the modern web.

Guests, consent, and taking a clip down

A screen makes recordings public in a way a phone download doesn't, so it's worth being deliberate about it. Two things to know about how the link works: a paired screen reaches the slideshow through an unlisted, token-based link that needs no account, and that link is not password-protected — anyone holding it can watch until you disconnect your screens, which invalidates it. In practice that means you decide which screens are paired and where they point.

Tell guests the screen exists. A line at the booth — their clip may appear on the screen in the room — covers the vast majority of situations and heads off the awkward request later. If someone does ask to be taken down, hide their clip; it disappears from the slideshow immediately. On the storage side, Easy360 keeps at most the 20 most recent clips per account on the server and no longer than 24 hours, which is what makes the slideshow possible in the first place. The full wording, including who is responsible for what, is in Article 6b of our terms.

Worth thinking about the room, too. A slideshow at a corporate activation is straightforwardly good marketing; at a wedding, ask the couple first — most love it, but it is their party and their guests. If you package it as an add-on, our package pricing guide shows where extras like this sit in a tier, and the wedding upsell guide covers how to raise it without overselling.

FAQ

Does the slideshow work if the venue Wi-Fi is slow? Usually yes — the screen is fetching short clips, not streaming live video, so it tolerates a mediocre connection better than you'd think. Very congested networks (a full conference hall on shared Wi-Fi) can make clips slow to appear. If the venue's network is genuinely unusable, put the TV on your phone's hotspot instead.

Can I stop a specific clip from showing on the TV? Yes. Each clip can be hidden individually from the app, and it drops out of the slideshow. That's the tool to reach for when a guest asks, or when a recording didn't come out well — you don't have to disconnect the whole screen for one clip.

Do I need a new code for every TV? Each screen gets paired with its own code, so pairing a second TV means opening the page there and entering a fresh code. Codes expire after ten minutes, which is why you pair the screen when you set up rather than the day before.