When talking about Macs however, it has become common practice for users to share the machine’s display to an Apple TV connected to a high-definition television set via AirPlay. Of course, as things have progressed in the app age, it seems that there really is an app for pretty much everything, a notion that has been cemented in place by the fact that there is now a native Mac OS X app that allow users AirPlay-like mirroring of content directly from an Apple Mac to a Samsung Smart TV without the need for an Apple TV interjection.Īpple’s AirPlay protocol essentially allows consumers to take some form of content playing on one Apple device – such as music playing on an iPhone, or the screen of a Mac – and mirror it across to another device on the same network through the use of AirPlay magic.

There was a time when it became a bit of a running joke to claim that there “was an app for that”, meaning that no matter what it was that you wanted to achieve, the likelihood was that someone had built an app that would perform that task or solve that problem on your behalf. Here’s everything you need to know about getting this to work.

You can now Airplay Mirror your Mac’s display to a Samsung Smart TV without needing an Apple TV.

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