OMG dude, you don’t buy an Apple TV for a stay and then leave it at the hotel on purpose. You don’t do this. LMFAO!
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Netflix App for iOS No Longer Supports AirPlay Because of 'Technical Limitations' [Updated With Netflix Statement]
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OMG dude, you don’t buy an Apple TV for a stay and then leave it at the hotel on purpose. You don’t do this. LMFAO!
This is even a sillier argument than their original excuse. “It might not display right on non-apple tv’s?” Seriously?
Why would I even use air play for Netflix?
I use the Netflix app on my Apple TV...
I’m wondering the same
I use the Netflix app on my Apple TV...
I’m wondering the same
You could have Netflix and want to stream it to a friend’s TV where he doesn’t have Netflix. You could rent a vacation condo where they have an Apple TV or Roku but no Netflix. Those might be rare circumstances but they occur sometimes.
The "It worked until last week" part is a big clue that it's not actually a technical limitation
Well that's just an ******* move, honestly.
It's true that nobody cares about streaming Netflix to an Apple TV, since Apple TV has a Netflix app, but the whole point of opening up AirPlay is to make sure we can use it without using an Apple TV.
As far as I can tell, this is a thinly veiled DRM maintenance move by the publishers, and Netflix just has to abide by it whether they like it or not.
Obviously they don't like it. You can see how they're completely unable to provide a logically sound explanation for this that doesn't boil down to "We just made your experience terrible because Sony (or whomever) wanted us to," and we al know that, if they said that, they'd be gone tomorrow due to bad relationships with their content providers.
The DRM industry and the movie studios are complete and total cancer. All this BS with being unable to play a BluRay 4K movie on my almost new PC or Mac because oh no it doesn't have a set of DRM instructions built into the CPU core is so transparently anticonsumer that, honestly, I hope people pirate the everliving daylights out movies until these companies just give up. It's beyond a joke at this point.
Oh, and Apple? Yeah, that iTunes store isn't making it better.
It's true that nobody cares about streaming Netflix to an Apple TV, since Apple TV has a Netflix app, but the whole point of opening up AirPlay is to make sure we can use it without using an Apple TV.
As far as I can tell, this is a thinly veiled DRM maintenance move by the publishers, and Netflix just has to abide by it whether they like it or not.
Obviously they don't like it. You can see how they're completely unable to provide a logically sound explanation for this that doesn't boil down to "We just made your experience terrible because Sony (or whomever) wanted us to," and we al know that, if they said that, they'd be gone tomorrow due to bad relationships with their content providers.
The DRM industry and the movie studios are complete and total cancer. All this BS with being unable to play a BluRay 4K movie on my almost new PC or Mac because oh no it doesn't have a set of DRM instructions built into the CPU core is so transparently anticonsumer that, honestly, I hope people pirate the everliving daylights out movies until these companies just give up. It's beyond a joke at this point.
Oh, and Apple? Yeah, that iTunes store isn't making it better.
Airplay sucks (in my experience) when it comes to video casting. In any case, if you have an apple tv, why wouldn't you use the in-built Netfilx app?
People have listed at least four or five good reasons why.
"We want to make sure our members have a great Netflix experience on any device they use. With AirPlay support rolling out to third-party devices, there isn't a way for us to distinguish between devices (what is an Apple TV vs. what isn't) or certify these experiences."
So, control. A computer is not a TV, yet Netflix works just fine on that. I reckon copyright reasons mostly, the same as most companies refuse or knock -back support, or and/or due to app updates "this gives us a good reason for technical reasons" tor remove Airplay
SBS didn't offer it either at some point and usually the reasons are around copyright.
So, control. A computer is not a TV, yet Netflix works just fine on that. I reckon copyright reasons mostly, the same as most companies refuse or knock -back support, or and/or due to app updates "this gives us a good reason for technical reasons" tor remove Airplay
SBS didn't offer it either at some point and usually the reasons are around copyright.
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Airplay is the method that every single iOS user can use. What’s this “Ethernet connection” thing that you are talking about?
Probably 30+ years of detecting marketing ********. And of course Netflix’ explanation that clearly states there is no technical limitation to using AirPlay. The technical limitation is that Netflix doesn’t want its content to play on all Airplay devices.
There’s an official Apple- Apple Tv Remote app that works really well for this.
I genuinely loathe the way Netflix operate and many of the decisions they make but if you like any of the content they and they alone have you are kinda locked in.
I don't personally use Airplay but I can see numerous reasons how it's useful so this sucks for anyone who wanted to use that feature. I hope they lose subscribers over it, and they tell them why they've ended the subscription.
I don't personally use Airplay but I can see numerous reasons how it's useful so this sucks for anyone who wanted to use that feature. I hope they lose subscribers over it, and they tell them why they've ended the subscription.
Not every smart-TV offers it ? *shrugs* What about older generations? .. especially older TV's that Netflix don't support any longer..
No one is going to replace their TV just for Netflix. Its cheaper to get an Apple TV
Even older TVs support chrome cast which is better than using apple TV anyway personally
I use it quite a bit, to watch Netflix on Apple TV in hotels and on the Apple TV my family's vacation home. Using Airplay means I don't have to enter my credentials on untrusted devices, or in the case of the latter - I don't have to log out my parents from their account, while my wife and I can still watch what we want.
This behaviour from Netflix is a pretty bad move - making something that works harder just because. It's like they want to annoy customers.