AirPlay

Amazon.com Inc. introduced a new feature that mimics Apple Inc.'s AirPlay while working across different platforms, setting the stage for iPhone and Android users to wirelessly stream video to its TV hardware. The feature, called Matter Casting, is part of a push by Amazon to create interoperable services — an alternative to the propriety technology developed by Apple and Google. It will make it easier for iOS and Android phones to send video to Amazon devices, such as its Fire TV boxes and sticks, as well as the Echo…

Amazon is the first big company to add support for the Matter open casting standard, it announced at Matter Casting is an open protocol that lets you send videos and related content from an app to a hardware device, just like Apple AirPlay and Google Chromecast. The feature just launched for the Prime Video app and will allow casting to various Amazon hardware devices.For now, you can only cast to the but the company says it’ll soon offer support for Fire TVs, including Panasonic models with Fire TV built in. As for…

If you’ve ever bought yourself a brand new Mac and thought “I don’t want to spend double that on the Apple Studio Display”, you’re not alone. Fortunately, a brand new refresh of Samsung’s alternative has been announced at CES 2024 and it looks incredible. The Samsung Smart Monitor M80D is a 32-inch 4K display that only requires a single USB-C port to get hooked up to your devices. It’s also confirmed to have AirPlay 2 built-in, which means you can stream content straight to it from your iPhone, Mac, and iPad. Though we…

Gone are the days when you had to watch your photos videos or any other content just on your smartphone. Most aspects of the beauty of the photos, or videos, and even audio, were lost on the small screen. Now, advanced technologies have made it possible to watch any content on a bigger screen with the help of mirroring your phone's screen on a TV or a laptop. So, if you have an Apple iPhone 15 and other Apple devices then your streaming journey is sorted. With The Airplay feature on iPhone 15. This feature allows…

Projectors can be big, detailed, and geared for a proper home-theatre experience, and are often the first choice in large spaces and purpose-built home theatre rooms. On the other hand, they can also be small, portable, versatile, and a means to give you entertainment or productivity benefits on the go. The latter use case is a particularly interesting one in the home entertainment and productivity space, and brands such as ViewSonic have made a big impact in promoting a segment that is often under-appreciated and…

Samsung showcased the ViewFinity S9 studio monitor in January at CES 2023. Several months later, we finally have official pricing and availability details. According to Samsung, customers will be able to purchase it starting in August at a starting price of $1,599. Judging by the price and features, it is pretty evident that Samsung has made a direct competitor to the Apple Studio Display. You get a similar 27-inch panel with a 5K resolution along with impressive color reproduction capabilities. Even the design…

After Elon Musk revealed in 2022 that it was something he and a group of engineers were considering, references to AirPlay are starting to appear in the official Tesla app, signaling that it could finally be coming to its fleet of cars.For those unaware, AirPlay lets you send audio or video content to another device that has the feature installed, allowing you to quickly cast something without sending it to someone or uploading it somewhere.A bunch of televisions have this feature and it's incredibly useful, especially…

Though most car manufacturers opt for integrating CarPlay, specifically developed for vehicles, Tesla's integration of AirPlay could be viewed as a step towards future integration of CarPlay -- a step in the right direction of sorts. Also: How to add wireless Apple CarPlay to your carApple CarPlay is a technology that seamlessly integrates a user's iPhone with their vehicle's infotainment system, extending the smartphone's functionality to the car's display. This gives iPhone users a familiar user interface on their…

Apple CarPlay is probably never coming to Tesla EVs, but it looks like next best thing is on the way. It’s been over a year since Elon Musk said Tesla would consider adding AirPlay support to enhance wireless audio quality for music from iPhones. At the time, the Musk tweeted that he would “discuss this and other improvements with Tesla audio engineering” when asked about bringing AirPlay support to Teslas. Fast forward to now and it appears that the Tesla audio engineering team has began laying…

Twitter might not be the social network it once was but it's still the one that a whole load of people spend their time on and now they have a new feature to enjoy.Video support has been around on Twitter for years and Apple even shared an entire episode of the Apple TV Plus hit Silo as a freebie recently. But watching on your iPhone is no fun, and using screen sharing via AirPlay didn't always work well. Now, that workaround is no longer needed.That's because Twitter has now added the ability to AirPlay videos right…