Who has tried AirPlay Mirroring?

[larla]

No one has mentioned apps like HboGo -- do these apps allow mirroring to the TV via AppleTV?

 

[scotland66]

No one has mentioned apps like HboGo -- do these apps allow mirroring to the TV via AppleTV?

You can "mirror" anything, that means you can open hbogo on your iPad, and mirror the whole screen to your tv. I have found though when doing this with bbc iplayer there is a little lag, and the video is not over the whole tv screen, but it is watchable. If the hbogo app supports AirPlay, then that would give for sure great quality, but if it's anything like the bbc iplayer then there is no AirPlay support and the only possibility is direct mirroring as I mentioned at the beginning of this post.

 

[larla]

In particular, during early versions of iOS 5, there were problems with HboGo not working in the mirror mode. The rationale was that that app (or Apple TV) was blocking it specifically since it was defined as a mobile app and they didn't want that functionality (select any episode of any series ever shown on HBO) available on a TV. I just wondered if that was really true or it just wasn't working because it was an early version of iOS 5.

 

[Poser]

for those wondering, there is a 4.4.2 update for apple tv.

 

[richsadams]

for those wondering, there is a 4.4.2 update for apple tv.

Yes indeed! More here:

http://www.ipadforums.net/apple-tv/51219-ios-4-4-2-released-apple-tv2.html