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bad03xtreme

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Jul 16, 2009
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I am about to get my first ever smartphone and one on my main reasons for getting an iPhone was because I have an iMac, MacBook Pro, and a 1st Gen tv and I wanted to be able to use airplay to play music and videos through my stereo and tv via airplay from my iPhone.

I use my computers now to play music using my airport extreme and that connects everything to the same network. However I just read that the 1st gen tv does cannot stream music or videos from an iPhone, is that the case? :(
 

bad03xtreme

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Jul 16, 2009
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Northern, VA
I have already installed that but it was a few years back now. Do I need to upgrade it? I do play my music through my tv using iTunes on my computer is that airplay? I always thought that was what the tv was supposed to do.
 

Exit34

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May 15, 2012
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Yes and No I suppose. Depends how you intend to serve your media to the aTV. iTunes running on your machine will always work for any media contained within iTunes. For videos, this requires a certain format however. To better answer your question, you are going to be using the iPhone 5 as the devise you intend to airplay from, correct?

What type of media are you intending to airplay from the iPhone to the aTV?


I have already installed that but it was a few years back now. Do I need to upgrade it? I do play my music through my tv using iTunes on my computer is that airplay? I always thought that was what the tv was supposed to do.
 

bad03xtreme

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Jul 16, 2009
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Northern, VA
I would mainly use the tv to play music and put my photos or videos taken with the phone up on the tv from the phone if possible without having to import everything into the computer first. I was under the impression I could take a video of my kid with the phone and turn around and watch it on my tv since I have an tv but I suppose I am mistaken.
 

Exit34

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May 15, 2012
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I would mainly use the tv to play music and put my photos or videos taken with the phone up on the tv from the phone if possible without having to import everything into the computer first. I was under the impression I could take a video of my kid with the phone and turn around and watch it on my tv since I have an tv but I suppose I am mistaken.

Ok. You can do all of that from your iphone 5 through XBMC. If you want to stay with the appletv 1 then XBMC will be your only option. Alternatively you could just pick up the atv 3 and all will work well out of box. not a bad upgrade for $99 considering your current commitment to the apple ecosystem already.
 

aristobrat

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Oct 14, 2005
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I was under the impression I could take a video of my kid with the phone and turn around and watch it on my tv since I have an tv but I suppose I am mistaken.
The original tv that you're still rocking was designed over six years ago! :eek:

AirPlay is definitely an awesome feature, but it does require the hardware in a newer AppleTV to work with.
 

dynaflash

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Mar 27, 2003
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The original tv that you're still rocking was designed over six years ago! :eek:

AirPlay is definitely an awesome feature, but it does require the hardware in a newer AppleTV to work with.

True with stock software, not true running xbmc. xbmc has airplay when its on an atv 1. Works good too.
 
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