topic Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag in Android TV

Screen mirroring kd55ag

Pinkymike — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 12:31:31 GMT

Sorry if this question has been asked before. But can you use screen mirroring with iPhone and Sony Bravia kd 55 ag. I can't see how to and for what is a pretty expensive tv it seems surprising. There are obviously apps that will allow you to do similar but they seem very poor.

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

LightFoot — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:55:35 GMT

@Pinkymike wrote:
Sorry if this question has been asked before. But can you use screen mirroring with iPhone and Sony Bravia kd 55 ag. I can't see how to and for what is a pretty expensive tv it seems surprising. There are obviously apps that will allow you to do similar but they seem very poor.

Hi @Pinkymike

That is an easy one to answer, no. You need to use a HDMI cable with an adapter or use an Apple TV box connected to the TV. As you have found out, the Android TV apps like AirScreen are useless. I use an Apple 4K TV box which with both my iPad and iPhone works brilliantly and is the ideal companion.

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

Pinkymike — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:50:03 GMT

Thanks for your response. Yet again Apple seem to continue to control everything we do. I may just continue to use the hdmi connections as you suggest and get off my ***** when I need to change things.

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

royabrown2 — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:16:27 GMT

@Pinkymike

You are not in the slightest constrained to buy Apple products; thanks to Google, there is an Android equivalent for pretty much every Apple device.

But if you do buy an Apple device, you have to enter into the Jobsian bargain that the price of it doing everything it is intended to do is that it absolutely declines to do let you step out of the walled garden of the things that Apple let you do.

Because if you could, it might break that bargain.

Speaking of breaking, if you can’t bear to depart from the Appleverse, but rail against the restrictions, you can always jail-break your Apple devices. And so get the best, and maybe the worst, of both worlds.

But even the Androidverse has its restrictions. Ever wanted an Android app on your TV, only to find it isn’t in the Android TV store?

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

Pinkymike — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:59:52 GMT

Ive today discovered how to use screen mirroring on this Sony tv. Not sure why previous google searches didn’t pick any solution up up.

anyway here goes.

if you go into the google play store and look (or dictate as I did (app for Apple TV) up should appear Air Play Mirror. download the app and open screen mirroring which should show the Bravia TV Link and your connected

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

rooobb — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:59:41 GMT

Or you just wait for android pie to roll out and your tv will have airplay2 protocol installed

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

GrainneDMcM — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:41:27 GMT

This is great thanks, I have done this too now but was wondering is there any way to then make what is mirrored on the screen viewable as a full screen on the TV?

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

rooobb — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:30:43 GMT

@GrainneDMcM ha scritto:

This is great thanks, I have done this too now but was wondering is there any way to then make what is mirrored on the screen viewable as a full screen on the TV?

What do you mean? If it is full screen on the smartphone it will be full screen on tv (if you put it in portrait mode obviously...)

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

Pinkymike — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:04:02 GMT

If you mean black lines at the top and bottom of the screen, (but full width screen) then that is what I have as well. I’m not sure why but you get the same when connecting some programs through laptops and iPads, through an hdmi lead. I guess there is a technical reason

Re: Screen mirroring kd55ag

rooobb — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:13:33 GMT

Be' aware that your device may have different ratio than the 16:9 of the tv so if you don't want to stretch the content black bars are unavoidable