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Airplay and Keynote

Hello All,

Yesterday I came home from work and my wife surprised me with a new iPad 2. It's the basic WIFI only model. Wince I have an iPhone 4 she didn't see the need to spring for the 3G. Anyway, I use powerpoint a lot at church and other places and was very pleased to see that I could use Keynote for iPad to build and edit presentations and save them in Keynote or PowerPoint formats. What I want to know is can I show a keynote presentation from my iPad 2 via airplay to the new appleTV? It would be great to just be able to bring that little appleTV devise and be able to plug into any projector or tv and run the presentation wirelessly. But I just wanted to know before I sprung for the new AppleTV.

Thanks

MAC MINI, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Mar 24, 2011 7:20 AM

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zivj

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May 15, 2012 4:16 AM in response to Abulukas

Hi,

You can also use an iPhone if you have one and configure it as a hot spot.

Ziv

May 15, 2012 5:06 AM in response to Abulukas

Sorry, not been on for awhile.

No, I didn't figure it out. Although I went to Apple to talk to the Geniuses. The problem is that every TV connection is different. So, traveling I would have to bring different wires to attach to my computer and their TV. The other thing with wires is the length. If the office doesn't have a counter close by what's going to hold the computer-I-Pad.

SOme customer stated that she travels all over the world and does everything on someone else's TV. I am told that they have to have I-Tunes and other programs on their computer. That won't work for me.

I have a great travel friendly projector (casio) so I am going to stay with that.

I am told soon every TV will have HD and they will all have the same connections -universal- and they will have internet to wirelessly connect. Can't wait.

Good luck

PLCAdmin

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Jun 25, 2012 5:40 PM in response to Abulukas

If you want to airplay from your mac to your apple tv for programs such as Keynote, I beleive that you need to get something similar to AirParrot.

Plug the Apple TV into the TV via HDMI and run your presentation via AirParrot. There is a cable available from Kanex (got mine through Mac1) that coverts the HDMI output from the Apple TV to standard VGA and audio if the TV is too old for HDMI.