Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Apple TV

I use Apple TV all the time to send my Mac screen wirelessly to the TV when presenting technical classes or delivering speeches where I need to show people my computer screen.

And when I BootCamp or Parallel with Windows I use AirParrot software ($10, but I hear there are free ones) to project my Windows 7 screen wirelessly onto the big TV / projector via Apple TV.

Airplay needs a lot of port open that some office routers lock down, so then I have to plug into the TV I bought a lonnnnng cable for that.

To my knowledge I have not found software that does that with Roku although I am sure it exists and Chromecast (which I also have) can't send the whole screen to TV just a Chrome Tab/App that is "chromecast enabled".

So yeah Apple TV is very powerful. The lack of Amazon Prime app is the main major thing I miss I keep Roku for, and Roku HD has games like Angry Bird Space, and LOTS of 3rd party apps you can get free and buy per month, and it's remote has Wii style motion so you can play games by just moving-shaking the remote (although a Fire Tv from Amazon would support that too, I don't own one of those yet, but probably will to see what it has.)

By "hobby" they just mean you cannot download apps from a store free or paid. With Roku you can download new apps (they call "channels") and extend what they can do. With Apple TV You can buy or rent movies or TV shows or songs; you just cannot go to a store and download apps CONTENT ONLY on Apple TV for now,

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Jerry Elkins jreusa@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Apple TV is far from a toy. We used it to present a Keynote Medicare program that we wrote to sell Medicare insurance via a projector using a iPad.

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Jerry R. Elkins
98 American Tradition 40TVS
Whitney, Tx. 76692

On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Charles Carroll 911@learnasp.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

BTW the sound quality on Pandora and movies is much better on Apple TV than Roku. On my GF's TV Roku sound quality was poor on Pandora and NetFlix, and I assumed it was TV speakers. Until I played Apple TV on same speakers and the sound was much better.

iRadio has a larger selection of music in many cases than Pandora at least in some modern POP genres.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> I was referring to the Apple TV which has been stated by Apple as a toy project.

The term Apple used was "hobby".
Rather different implications.