[OSX-Users] Re: Apple TV

[Steve Harris]

I’ve got one and almost never use it.

Was planning to use it to playback stuff from my iPad / iPhone via apps (e.g. iPlayer app) but found not enough supported it, or not well enough, so I ended up getting a mac mini for the TV anyway.

We have one at work plugged into a huge flatscreen that we use for mirroring laptops when presenting, and it’s great for that.

If the AppleTV had apps it would be more useful at home.

There’s rumours of new hardware being released soon.

> On 24 Apr 2015, at 09:40, Chris Andrews <w at lfie.org> wrote:
> 
> Got one I might consider parting with. It's not used much now I have an Amazon Fire TV and a Mac Mini. Mail me off-list with an offer :)
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
> It's cheap enough I might get one unless someone has one they'd sell on?
> 
> On 24/04/2015 09:34, Andy Newton wrote:
>> AirPlay mirroring works nicely, other similar things are few and far between and generally don't work nicely.
>> 
>> AirPlay is apple-kit-only, so if you have e.g. a linux or windows box or an android phone you want to connect, you're out of luck. There's an open source audio-only implementation though, it's built into XBMC/Kodi.
>> 
>> If you have an existing OSX or windows box to run it on, AirServer (http://www.airserver.com/ <http://www.airserver.com/>) is $15 and works fine with iOS/OSX devices for airplay mirroring. If you run it on windows (and have the right wireless adapter...) it'll do miracast, but miracast seems to be a bit of a mish-mash of implementations at the moment, so you might not find anything that'll talk to it.
>> 
>> Biscuits
>> 
>> On 24/04/2015 09:24, Jules Field wrote:
>>> AirPlay will mirror the video and audio to whatever the AppleTV is connected to.
>>> 
>>> See the "AirPlay" feature description on this page:
>>> http://store.apple.com/us/buy-appletv/appletv <http://store.apple.com/us/buy-appletv/appletv>
>>> 
>>> Jules.
>>> 
>>> On 24/04/2015 09:20, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>>>> How about audio?
>>>> 
>>>> On 24/04/2015 08:58, Chris Andrews wrote:
>>>>> >From a Mac that's about 2011 or newer and running OSX 10.8 or newer that's exactly what you can do with AirPlay display mirroring. I think 10.9 then introduced AirPlay display extending which allows you to use the ATV box as a separate monitor.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chris
>>>>> 
>>>>> (On phone, please excuse conciseness...)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk');>> wrote:
>>>>> The Apple TV boxes are pretty cheap now but I'm still not clear on what they actually do. I loath iTunes and don't buy anything through it, so that's not much use if that's the only way to control it (as some of the online stuff seems to indicate).
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I was hoping was that it would just let you use the TV like an external monitor and also send audio to it.
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jules
>>> 
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