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With Apple TV, any H.264 Web content can be broadcast over AirPlay to your HDTV

Friday, September 17, 2010 · 1:35 pm · 30 Comments

The features and descriptions of the new Apple TV “on Apple’s site right now is a red herring,” Seth Weintraub writes for 9 To 5 Mac. “I think a much bigger use will be what puts these in almost every house in America – or at least gives it the market share that the iPod enjoys.”

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“Apple TV is a AirPlay-compatible device, meaning it can stream video/sound from other Apple devices,” Weintraub explains. “We found out last night that it isn’t just iTunes content that it will be able to broadcast. Any H.264 content from the web can be broadcast over Airplay to your HDTV.”

Weintraub reports, “That includes any video that can play on your iOS 4.2 device, like: Facebook video, YouTube, Netflix, Videos, BBC News, MLB and really anything else you can watch on your iOS device. That also includes videos built into Apps and magazine subscriptions too. All of this can be beamed to your AppleTV via Airplay.”

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zmarc

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:38 pm · Reply

Killer app!
Lightningscream

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:41 pm · Reply

It’s over then tv web gaming intergration if this is the case this iapple tv 2 is a gaming platform. As well as an all purpose tv photo etc device rip a DVD convert to iTunes and air play to ur HD tv glad I bought one good thing I didn’t buy stock in blockbuster which I actually like
iWill

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:48 pm · Reply

The age of personal global television is so ON now!!

Tipping point approaching..

.:.
ivid

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:51 pm · Reply

But it won’t support CineXplayer or other Xvid player apps now will it ? If not then no thanks…
Predrag

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:18 pm · Reply

I don’t think there is a single content provider out there that uses Divx, Xvid, Ogg Theora or any other obscure codec. The logical conclusion is that these codecs are used mostly by those who illegally share commercial content. A cursory review of torrent sites confirms this; while there are bootleg movies out there encoded in an MPEG flavour (DVD-ready MPEG-2, AVCHD Blu-ray ready MPEG-4 AVC, and similar), it seems that much more illegal movie rips are encoded in Divx or Xvid.

So, why would anyone really need to have support for Divx, Xvid and similar on Apple TV, unless they are breaking laws?
ron

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:18 pm · Reply

“But it won’t support CineXplayer or other Xvid player apps now will it ? If not then no thanks…”

Some of us take the wrong fork in the road.
ron

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:20 pm · Reply

That should be, the wrong road when we come to a fork.
KfC

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:26 pm · Reply

@Vivid

So, you want to watch your stolen porn collection on the TV. Hmm…
KfC

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:27 pm · Reply

Uh, sorry, I mean “ivid”…..
Jared White

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 2:45 pm · Reply

Wait, this will be available from any app on iPhone/iPod/iPad? Whoa…all of a sudden everything makes sense. All the people moaning about AppleTV not including “apps” and other stuff — it doesn’t need to. The apps are already there, on your iOS device. AppleTV is simply the “receiver” that puts the video on your big screen. Smart, simple, efficient. This alone makes AppleTV a killer piece of kit.
EvangelizeWithRespect

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 3:02 pm · Reply

Well, in ivid’s case, Vivid works too…
Chuck C

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 3:02 pm · Reply

Yeah, it doesn’t support my Super-8 home movies either. I’m with ivid…
AquaBoy4ever

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 3:08 pm · Reply

Was this the device Steve spoke about months ago where profit margins wouldn’t be as high as other Apple products or was it the iPad?
Vatdoro

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 3:15 pm · Reply

I can’t believe what an incredible feature this is. This means I can peruse my video library using my iPad instead of a clunky up-down-left-right remote control. I can choose what I want to watch, and then just beam it to my AppleTV. Freaking AWESOME!

For you guys wanting to watch xvid (or any other format) videos on your AppleTV, simply get the AirVideo app on iPad/iPhone. It has a connected application that runs on your mac/windows computer and lets you stream video to your iOS device. It transcodes any format into h.265 realtime so your iOS device can play it natively. This means that AirPlay will be able to relay it to the new AppleTV.

That one feature right there is so cool I can’t even stand it. Add on top of that any and all h.265 video in any other app. (MLB, Netflix, Hulu?…) And any h.264 video on any web page or hulu.

And a commenter on 9to5mac.com confirmed that he can start playing audio over AirPlay to his AirportExpress and then multitask at the same time! The audio just continues streaming over AirPlay in the background.

Now I can choose what I want to watch using my beautiful touchscreen iPad, then AirPlay it to my TV, and then go back to safari (or any app) while the video is playing!

Apple freaking rocks!
pcharles

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 4:19 pm · Reply

I wrote the exact same thing as Sethy boy on the release day when everyone was dissing the device. The apple tv is little more than an antenna for your media.
Jersey_Trader

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 4:42 pm · Reply

I read AirPlay is an open standard. You have to wonder if DVRs, DVD players, … will stream it too.
hardmanb

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 5:02 pm · Reply

Steve has out-thunk them again.
Chad Jacobs

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:16 pm · Reply

It’s still another clunky additional step to get stuff to your tv from your computer
Apple Cider

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:34 pm · Reply

What am I missing here? I’ve been doing this with my ATV for the last couple of years. This ain’t new.
G4Dualie

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:43 pm · Reply

@Vatdoro

Any App that uses your iOS device’s media controller for playback can take advantage of Airplay’s streaming technology, but you can cross Hulu off your list, because NBC/Comcast is not going to allow Apple’s iOS media controller to stream it’s content.

It’s for this reason, Hulu has blocked Boxee from streaming any Hulu content. Their rationale is, Boxee technology, “which disables significant, commercially important features of Hulu’s site to Boxee’s commercial benefit” circumvents Hulu’s terms of use restrictions.

In other words, ANY content from Hulu that is processed through a third-party application will be blocked.

Boxee has gone on record stating they are including all pre-roll and in-program advertising in their streams but that wasn’t enough for the greedy advertisers doing business with Hulu.

The reason is quite simple; Hulu and its advertisers want complete control of your media device.

Not only does Hulu and its advertisers get to present the pre-roll and in-program advertising, but Hulu is allowing their advertisers to reskin the area that surrounds Hulu’s media controller, to what end is unknown.

But hey, Apple is doing the same thing. As I said, as long as the iOS app relies on iPad’s media controller for playback/streaming, they’re golden.