Comments on: Apple TV and OS X Mountain Lion’s AirPlay Mirroring lets you cut the cable TV cord

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:18:58 +0000

Where did you find Airparrot? I did not find it when I searched the internet? Thanks!!!!!

By: Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:28:45 +0000

Been Comcast free for a couple of years now. I have a direct connection to our big screen from an antenna on the roof and stream over our Airport Extreme from my old G5 tower where I have EyeTV running as my DVR. I get 20 HD channels plus the internet (e.g. ESPN3). Add in Netflix on our Wii and we are pretty well covered for $8 a month (to Netflix).

By: Jim R.

Jim R. — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:28:31 +0000

Ah AirPlay Mirroring, a really nice feature… which… would have been nice if it worked for all OS X 10.8 compatible Macs as many (even recent Mac buyers) were falsely led to believe. Thank you Apple for swindling $20 from a fairly significant portion of your users in exchange for Messages, Notes, and Reminders apps while also cutting other corners to “simplify” OS X.

By: Ned

Ned — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:09:24 +0000

I have had the same experience. When I called my cable company to cancel the operator could not understand how I could watch television without cable.

By: Ned

Ned — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:52:59 +0000

I cut the cord 2 years ago. I have my OTA to watch local news and NFL games but most of the stuff we watch is via the internet. I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my HDTV (I have the first model with an HDMI port) and it is great. The mini cost me $700 which is much less than the $2600 I would have spent on cable in that time. We also find that we watch less TV as we only watch what we really want to watch.

By: Ballonknot

Ballonknot — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:58:14 +0000

I’m one of them. Always funny how shocked people are when they come over, and can’t understand how I get a high def picture with an OTA antenna.

By: TheConfuzed1

TheConfuzed1 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:44:32 +0000

Sure, if you want to pay to download it.

Otherwise, with AirPlay, it’s 100% free.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:26:26 +0000

You don’t even need AirPlay mirroring – just order up from iTunes Store via your Apple TV.

By: -hh

-hh — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:18:23 +0000

I always find it humorous to see these “cut the cable” style of articles that fail to mention the obvious: there’s millions of consumers within ~30 miles of urban centers that still have “OTA” (over the air) TV available for $0/month … all it takes is to slap an antenna on your roof.

-hh

By: WSharp

WSharp — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:59:23 +0000

I have a 2 year old MacBook Pro so AirPlay doesn’t work. Lucky I found Airparrot which is even better and more inclusive. I’m still with Comcast but not for much longer.

By: Walter White

Walter White — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:52:18 +0000

appletv needs the internet connection – wirelessly

it works well

rent or buy and broadcast from your computer to the appletv is also beautiful

rentals is SOMETHING APPLE needs to PUSH harder as this is UNIQUE to the competition and requires TO ADVERTISE the benefit…

an iTOUCH does not need the CONSTANT wifi CONNECTION to watch a rental LATER in the long drive to the cottage

it is USEFUL too

By: mango

mango — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:30:43 +0000

It’s still not perfect….no Amazon Prime Instant Video (no mirroring)…..