Comments on: Google TV will get its own version of AirPlay

By: Jon Dory

Jon Dory — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:48:03 +0000

Exactly….

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:21:11 +0000

GoogleTV’s YouTube has had ‘leanback’ mode for ages, and the Android app ‘YouTube Remote’ has existed for ages to use it.
So how is this news?

Airplay is different, it mirrors the phone’s screen over wifi so e.g. games appear on the big screen.

Disappointed by this article on a tech site helping to confuse the matter.

By: Terrence Martineau

Terrence Martineau — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:32:14 +0000

Janko… you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how a Nexus Q works!

in that setup the mobile Android device IS NOT streaming to the Nexus Q… the mobile Android device is simply directing the Nexus Q to stream the Google Play media directly from the internet.. this is a fundamental difference… in AirPLay, the iOS device is actually streaming the media to the AirPlay receiver…

for Google to recreate full airPlay like behaviour they could not mimic how the nexus q currently works with android mobile devices… for example with googles current setup you wouldn’t be able to do screen mirroring from the android device.. and show a game or app, or photos that you have on your android device on the nexus q… with the nexus q only the stuff in google’s cloud is available to be shown on the nexus q… it’s incredibly limited because of the way they have done it.. also, media owner have block google TV from directly accessing they media so no hulu, not HBO on the go, no first rate media etc.. but the stuff is available to play on iOS and because the iOS device can do screen mirroring anything can essentially be streamed to the AirPlay receiver..

By: Terrence Martineau

Terrence Martineau — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:19:40 +0000

It’s the workflow of DLNA that sucks… with airPlay you’re watching anything on your iOS device (audio, video, web page, game… anything) and with one click you’re watching it on your TV.. with DLNA it’s not that seamless and adhoc.. and the streaming of game and web video is not even possible because DLNA does not support screen mirroring…

since DLNA doesn’t support screen mirroring so forget about streaming HULU or web video to your TV via DLNA… that’s the BIG fail of DLNA… with airPlay ANYTHING on the web… ANYTHING… can be streamed to an airPlay receiver.. not so with DLNA..

By: Dhimant

Dhimant — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:53:26 +0000

DLNA has two distinct issues:
(1) CE Device makers have chosen to build too many variations and without the respect for compatibility with others products.
(2) It is TOO slow, 10 yrs old mechanism!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:03:41 +0000

well my issue is i may want to watch a tv episode that i cant get on TV anymore but it only on their website.
Googletv browser is block from viewing it here, but i can from my tablet or computer so if i can get it to send the video to googletv my issue would be resolved

By: The Gnome

The Gnome — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:29:35 +0000

Only if Samsung creates an identical icon, calls it airplay, and steals patents for its software… which no doubt it will.

By: sti3

sti3 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:28:03 +0000

How would I play Hulu plus on the Vizio Co-Star?

By: sti3

sti3 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:05:13 +0000

Ok please explain like I’m 9.

How do I wirelessly mirror content (including flash videos on the web) from my laptop to my GoogleTV (Sony Blu Ray player)? How would Plex accomplish this?

By: JC

JC — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:13:08 +0000

Maybe Google realized that having unlimited choice is not in the consumer’s best interest. A little bit of history that appears to be paralleling today’s events:

* Before the iPod there were MP3 players (from about 20 companies) – DLNA has been around for over 10 years, why has it not caught on with consumers?

* Before iTunes there were WinAmp, Real, WMA, and many others – All the other players accomodated more formats, had more features, and were in general better players than the 1st iTunes but iTunes made the rip-store-play process simple. – In the GooglePlat store there are a few hundred players and streamers – the average consumers has no idea what to do with all of these and most don’t work together.

Maybe DLNA is better, maybe there are streamers and players that have more feature and work better than Apple but if the mainstream consumer cannot figure it out in 5 minutes then they will not buy it and you will loose the market to whomever does it better in the eyes of the consumer.