Official Hurl video sharing app comes to Windows Phone 8 and it’s glorious

E'er want to share a video from your phone onto a PC? Desire to make the experience social and open platform as well so your iPhone and Android friends can jump in? And so you'll desire to take a peep at the official Bung app for Windows Phone 8, which came out yesterday.

Hurl is like a DNLA service but for PCs, but information technology as well adds some social aspects as well. The system works by simply downloading their app to your phone and setting up a page on the Hurl website (www.hurl.net). Using your telephone's GPS (and your label) you lot can then connect upwards. From there, you lot can search online for videos, which y'all then add together to the queue. Those videos volition then play on the PC and your telephone acts like a remote for it—it'southward like SmartGlass but for everything else.

What'south neat about it though is that you tin have numerous people connect up to the service, all contributing to the video queue. Users can fifty-fifty vote to like, dislike or skip any videos in the queue, adding a little democracy to the mix. Like a video? Simply comment or favorite information technology. From their PR team:

"Hurl is similar Airplay on steroids. Any platform (WP8, iOS, Android) and whatsoever network (3G, 4G or Wi-Fi). By creating and logging in to world wide web.hurl.net with an account, screen owners can customize settings like queue limits, countersign protection and explicit content controls. It's the perfect fit for any party or audience."

If you need an idea for what to play and Search is to challenging, information technology fifty-fifty has built in Reddit support, making sure you're caught upwardly on the latest viral stories.

Nosotros've been playing with the service for the terminal xxx minutes and we have to throw our hat in equally being impressed. Videos streamed nigh instantly, and the idea of using our phone as a remote is quite appealing. Of course, nosotros could imagine the real benefit here would if friends are over for a party and you have a web-enabled TV. Then anyone with a smartphone (well, except BlackBerry users) can arrive on the fun and load up a video.

Bung is a free app for Windows Telephone 8 users and can be found here in the Shop.

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