With respect to the AppleTV profileration, Jonathan is right although
Apple has made it much easier to do AirPlay mirroring with the later
model Apple TVs and tablets/phones/laptops.
The "discovery" of the Apple TV is actually done over Bluetooth and then
the mirroring is done over an ad hoc wireless network between the
tablet/phone/laptop and the AppleTV. In that scenario, the mDNS traffic
snooping that the wireless controllers are doing doesn't even come into
play.
So barring Apple deciding to change something, it does seem like Apple
TVs are a good, low-cost option.
-dan
On 10/29/15 4:11 PM, Jonathan L. Trigaux wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Wesley Alan Wright wrote:
>
>> What¢s the word amongst the Intelligentsia with respect to AppleTV vs
>> AirMedia for wireless laptop-> Giant TV screen sharing?
>
> I believe native AppleTV screen sharing/mirroring will be limited to
> OS X 10.7+ and iOS devices only. Windows can stream AirPlay video to
> an AppleTV via iTunes for Windows, but that'll just show the iTunes
> content, not the Windows desktop.
>
> That said, there's quite a bit of AppleTV proliferation around campus
> already -- there's at least 3 that I know of in Waterman alone.
> Network Services did a lot of work a few years back on getting mDNS
> traffic to and from wireless APs, since then I haven't heard anyone
> express any network-related difficulty in setting up an AppleTV.
>
> -JLT
>
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> University of Vermont
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