“It happened to me again yesterday morning. I was giving a presentation at a conference on the subject of e-mail marketing,” E. Werner Reschke writes for T-GAAP.
“There was an HDTV in the room and I couldn’t use it,” Reschke writes. “Instead I used the projector provided by the conference. Why couldn’t I use the HDTV? Cords.”
“The one drawback was the projector. It was provided by the conference and was dim. My brilliant Keynote presentation looked lacklustre on the screen compared to my standards,” Reschke writes. “I had great color on my Mac, but projector displayed a completely washed out look. And right behind the screen, a gorgeous 52 inch HDTV was mounted on the wall begging to be used. Ugh.”
Reschke asks, “Why can’t Apple deliver an AirPlay API for my Mac? I have a MacBook Air! If AirPlay were available on my Mac, I’d carry my Apple TV with me and magically connect to any HDTV.”
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A perfectly valid point
Unbelievably retarded.
Get a DVI to HDMI cable.
Duh, a DVI to HDMI cable… any idiot, like heathen, knows that!.. Oh, of course you’re going to be stuck tethered to the TV be an annoying cable. If only there was a solution so that you could project your presentation over the air to the TV so that you can present from anywhere in the room… Oh wait! Airplay!!
And the TV is going to work with AirPlay how? Magic? Wishing? Prayer?
So you have to bring to the client’s meeting room your MacBook Air, plus an Apple TV, and a HDMI cable anyway to connect it to the TV? Or you just bring a cable with your Mac and look like an professional, instead of some idiot who wastes everyone’s time while he busts out his home theater gear. Take your time thinking that over before you answer, dipshit.
And who said anything about a 25′ cable? Its not like those are heavy, little girl, but a 6′ cable and your Macbook’s remote would also do just fine. I’m guessing your experience is mostly in retail? Perhaps fast food?
Nice try, but your first mistake was forgetting that I’m about a billion times more intelligent than both you and your little pal solid too.
I agree, a 25 foot HDMI cable is unbelievably retarded…oh wait, you want me to stand 6 foot from the HDTV? ok.
You are not someone who gives presentations, are you?
Presentations, dvd’s. The possebilities are numerous. It doesnt take a lot to understand the advantages!
What’s the problem. I project Keynote/Powerpoint presentations on HDTV’s screens all the time.
You only have to have to right connectors. Thats it. Works flawlessly.
AirPlay
For now, AirPlay does not support 1080p (cable is needed), 720p only.
That’s the point, connectors. We are talkin’ airplay here! It’s rediculous to require cables for this, when Apple has the sw done, just integrated it into Lion and be done with it. No wires necessary. Airplay from Keynote from the MBA. But no can do. Need cables, and that kind of crap.
Currently, I need to hook a displayport to HDMI cable to my HDTV to get EPSN3.com. That’s just silly. Let me airplay from the couch to my Apple TV…
READ!
“There was an HDTV in the room and I couldn’t use it,” Reschke writes. “Instead I used the projector provided by the conference. Why couldn’t I use the HDTV? Cords.”
I’d say it’s coming if its not here already.
Apple have been concentrating on iPad’s connectivity to gain market share and once AirPlay is old enough they will bring the toys back to laptops etc.
It is a good point, but there are plenty of workarounds.; the smallest footprint of which would be to upload the Keynote to your iPhone 4S, bring the AppleTV. BOOM!
Unless the keynote held videos that the iPhone keynote app does not have enough power to support.
Be prepared next time – take connectors.
Having connectors wasn’t the issue. It was the presenters lack of having a cord long enough to reach from the podium to the HDTV. Do you always think to carry at 25′ HDMI cable with you?
You can control a Mac via remote.. or iOS.
Uhm, the apple tv already does stream from the Mac or PC, it’s called iTunes, if that’s not enough, all iOS devices have a keynote presentation app available to use with your shot AirPlay idea. Lastly, any person experienced in presentations has the necessary adapter for their Mac to an HDTV.
If apple is going to make AirPlay for the Mac, it better be so I can pull something up on my Mac from my phone, example I am reading an email or article or even watching a video on my iPhone and as I walk into my office I would like to hit a button to bring it up on my computer screen. That would be a successful airplay for Mac.
It’s called aiplayer. From phone to Mac AirPlay. Google it.
Actually, it’s easier to just carry miniDisplay to HDMI converter and HDMI cable instead of carrying an Apple TV, HDMI cable, setting up wi-fi and then connecting over wi-fi using MBA. It only makes sense if Apple TV is there already.
But the point is indeed valid.
Except that you might not want to have to keep your Mac so close to the TV. With an AppleTV, you have a wireless connection to the HDTV and therefore can keep your Mac anywhere you want. Wireless is nice…
I’d like to be able to stream via AirPlay from an iOS device to my iMac. Not everyone has TVs. My iMac is my “TV!”
Airplayer. Awesome app. Makes you Mac an AirPlay hotspot.
I have AirPlay on my MBP but it’s limited to audio & video from iTunes. I though I heard that screen-mirroring was coming to OSX devices with the next revision (coming on Wednesday).
If AirPlay were available on my Mac, I’d carry my Apple TV with me and magically connect to any HDTV.
Eh? I thought AirPlay only streamed to AppleTVs and some 3rd-party AirPlay-enabled devices, and I thought the 3rd-party ones so far were audio only. Since when has AirPlay allowed you to connect to any HDTV?
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Never mind. My reading comprehension is off today. I didn’t get that he was planning to tote his Apple TV anywhere.
Still, I’m not sure how convenient that is either, since you’d have to get the Apple TV and the MacBookAIr on the same wireless network. If the corporate wireless network is even available, it might not be simple to hook a non-computer up to it.
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computer-to-computer Network?
I tried computer to computer network a month ago and had no luck (the appletv didne see the mac). What I did find is that if you have an internet connection on ur mac and turn on internet sharing over wifi, then the apple tv will see the mac.
Tis guy’s an idiot. He would have to carry his AppleTV, which STILL NEEDS AN HDMI CABLE TO PLUG INTO THE HD TV!!!
What would AirPlay really accomplish? If he had an HDMI cable and the small little adapter, he’d be just fine.
Depending on the distance between the presenter and the display, a long cable might not be practical. There’s a big difference between carrying a one-meter cable and one 6 meters or more, not to mention the cost associated with such a long cable.
Exactly! Just plugin and use your remote to walk around while presenting.
For all those saying bring the cords/connectors. I don’t want to cart around a 50 foot HDMI cable everywhere I go. If I am setup at one end of the room and the display is on the other, I have to run that cable the length of the floor. Plus a 50 foot cable weighs in at 2 pounds. If I am going to tote around 2 pounds with my MBP or MBA, it will be the AppleTV. As for taking time to set it up, do that before hand so all I have to do is plug it in, open the MBP and good to go.
The maker of the ClicktoFlash and ClicktoPlugin plugins has also made Media Center, which sends media content to Apple TV. It works great, not as great as Apple’s own solution one day will no doubt be, but it works. You can find it on Marc Hoyois’ home page.
here is what I want…
A presenters screen on my laptop, and a presentation on my iPad… Wirelessly. So I can practice lectures in my hotel room.
Get an app like DisplayPad, which makes your iPad function as an external display. You just need the iPad and the laptop to be on the same Wifi network. Then you should be able to do what you’re talking about. Now DisplayPad doesn’t work on Lion yet, but there are other similar apps. I have DisplayPad, and haven’t tried any others (even though the lion update put me out of commission for now.)
Thanks !
I watch a lot professional gaming tournaments and plugging in my laptop to my HDTV and then plugging in another cord for sound is a pain. AirPlay would be awesome
I see his point, but I don’t really care.. Just use a HDTV cable. (unless the ports on the HDTV were blocked.)
but…. What I DO want…. Airplay to stream content from my Mac…. TO my iPad/iPhone.
yes i know of 3rd party apps/programs that can do that.
I want iTunes to have built in ability to stream my movies/podcasts from my iMac to my iPad without having to Sync them first.
I want to fire up the “videos” (iTunes app, or a new one I don’t care) app on my iPad and scroll through all my movies I have in my iTunes Library on my iMac, select one and watch it like I can on my Apple TV.
granted iCloud and iOS 5 (with Lion 10.7.2) on wednesday could change things, I haven’t kept up on the iCloud/iOS5 stuff as much really. And I know there will be stuff we will find out on wednesday that we have not heard about yet, always happens.
You mean like this?
and to think… when I saw that in iOS 4.3…. I read it as music only. I did not know I could stream my movies to my iPad, i only did that with my iPhone and only saw music.
learn something new every day.
Doesn’t help that the music and video are in separate apps on the iPad, but I guess they have their reasons …
I “airplay” to my hdmi tv all the time when I make presentations. Here’s how.
Connect your laptop to the TV. Open Keynote.
Open Keynote Remote on your iphone.
Control your keynote from your iphone.
it’s seamless.
Before any of the flamers start with
“READ” or “CORDS”
This is just offered as a solution.
Exactly what I do. Easy to do and works well.
Macs (at least those running Snow Leopard and Lion DO have the ability to Air Play – at least from iTunes and iPhoto. I send things to my HDTV via my Apple TV all the time.
Haven’t actually tried doing a Keynote presentation, so don’t know it AirPlay is supported there… Are you able to sent ANYTHING to your AppleTV from the MacBook Air?
I know that when I first got my AppleTV there were some initial wrinkles getting all the setting set up right.
If you have an iPhone or iPad you can also send your AirPlay stuff to the HDTV that way too…
that’s another way to do it. Create your keynote presentation, then load it onto your iphone, then connect your apple tv to the HDMI tv, then airplay if from there. ah well, some people still don’t own macs.
Hmm this got me thinking. I wonder how cool it would be if the mac could broadcast video. Not through wifi, but actually broadcast a digital signal. A bit like how a FM transmitter works. Then you just ‘tune’ the telly till it picks up the mac.
I think that would create a lot more headaches than it’s worth.
broadcast on same channel as a local/gov access channel… then there are the FCC licenses you’d need…
would be much easier to just AirPlay it. get TV manufacturers to include the AirPlay tech into TV’s so any mac could send the signal to it without wires.
or just bring your own Apple TV and a short cable if you can access a HDMI port.
Apple TV for Mac: bananatv (at bananatv.net) Still not quite done but almost… I had some great success with it and some fails so far too – I think they will get it right soon though!