{"id":2329,"date":"2012-03-21T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:24:07","slug":"airplay-and-the-appletv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/21\/airplay-and-the-appletv","title":{"rendered":"AirPlay and the AppleTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement for Mountain Lion<\/a> came quite a while ago so I’m definitely late to the game. However one feature<\/a> that excites me the most is AirPlay<\/a> to an AppleTV<\/a>. You can already do this AirPlay mirroring with an iPad (which I’ve not tested before). But why is this big for laptops?<\/p>\n

Every respectable<\/em> hotel I stay at has an iPod\/iPhone dock. It may be from Bose or from some third party, but whatever it is, there is a dock. It started as an iPod dock, and now its pretty ubiquitous since many folk have iPhones. Solves the carrying a charger problem as well.<\/p>\n

Many hotels I go to now have a DVD player. Some even have a BluRay player. I never use these devices. I watch TV sure, but I don’t carry physical media with me.<\/p>\n

Imagine if every hotel room has an AppleTV? No more watching crappy Pay TV but mirroring my screen with some streaming video. Or just watching stuff off VLC (I hope AirPlay works with VLC).<\/p>\n

You’ll say that no hotel will want this. But no hotel wanted to provide fast Internet either (long distance calling killed by Skype, Pay TV killed by streaming movies, etc.). It becomes a necessity after a while. In fact many hotels now give you a free Pay TV movie per stay if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n

I wonder if Apple will go into the projector making space? Or if AirPlay technology will be licensed to projector makers. After all, imagine seamless sync of your video out via AirPlay to a projector, with no cables whatsoever? Great for presentations, and one dongle less to carry.<\/p>\n

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