Apple’s latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, launched last week with a significant AirPlay Mirroring update.
“Don’t look now, but Apple just created a formidable cord-cutting platform,” suggests Wired. “The new operating system can change the way we watch video in the living room, and might even compel some users to finally cancel their cable and satellite services.”
According to the article, video that’s available online can now easily be watched on an HDTV with a Mac running Mountain Lion and a $100 Apple TV.
The mirroring feature available with Mountain Lion, “uses the same basic tech found in iOS devices: Your computer wirelessly transmits whatever is playing on your Mac desktop to your Apple TV, which then shoots this mirrored content to your HDTV via an HDMI cable,” explains Wired. “Display settings are automatically determined by your Mac, so you don’t have to adjust the resolution over and over again, hoping to find the perfect recipe for optimal TV watching.”
“AirPlay for Mountain Lion is a great method for beaming any desktop content straight to your HDTV, and this includes streaming video from Web pages, computer games, and, yes, even illegal videos collected from BitTorrent,” notes the article. “And if the greater tech industry takes more bold steps toward changing how video is delivered, the future is going to be rough for cable and satellite providers. Something has to give.”
Apple’s latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, launched last week with a significant AirPlay Mirroring update.
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