>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.<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>(On phone, please excuse conciseness...)<span></span><br><br>On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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).<br>
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What I was hoping was that it would just let you use the TV like an external monitor and also send audio to it.<br>
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