My friend recently gave me an Apple TV 3... I thought it was pretty useless when I first read about it, but it is surprisingly good - especially if you have an iPhone/iPad/iPod etc...
I soon realised you can pretty much Airplay anything, so you can have a TV streaming app on your iPhone, and Airplay it into 1080p onto your TV...
What confuses me though is that it seems my iPhone 4 really isn't doing any hard work at all (doesn't get hot, and is still usable - some apps like Twitch can be minimised and Airplay keeps going)... so how does the Apple TV actually work? It's not just idling receiving the stream and outputting it because I've hooked up my iPhone 4 using a VGA adaptor and it is laggy outputting low resolution video, I get the feeling the Apple TV is doing something different. I have to say I am actually very surprised how useful it is...
I soon realised you can pretty much Airplay anything, so you can have a TV streaming app on your iPhone, and Airplay it into 1080p onto your TV...
What confuses me though is that it seems my iPhone 4 really isn't doing any hard work at all (doesn't get hot, and is still usable - some apps like Twitch can be minimised and Airplay keeps going)... so how does the Apple TV actually work? It's not just idling receiving the stream and outputting it because I've hooked up my iPhone 4 using a VGA adaptor and it is laggy outputting low resolution video, I get the feeling the Apple TV is doing something different. I have to say I am actually very surprised how useful it is...
