dpmmusic wrote:
Anyone know how to connect a laptop to a Samsung SmartTV wirelessly so we can watch and hear what is on our Laptop, then on our TV please?
I went as far as to find the product manual for your TV on Google. To mirror something live on your TV, the manual only lists one option using a technology called "AllShareCast." This is a Samsung feature provided (as far as I know) only to Samsung mobile phones like the Samsung Galaxy, so it can't be used with a Mac.
There are various ways to send wireless video through your TV, some already mentioned above, but to my knowledge most have to do with playing back recorded content, or files. If your requirements are specifically the following:
- live playback of whatever is on the screen of a Mac laptop
- do it wirelessly
It does not look like the TV itself provides any way to do this other than Samsung-only AllShareCast, so you probably have no choice but to attach something to the TV, your most likely options are probably to plug an Apple TV or the Google Chromecast into the back of your TV and send laptop video to them over wifi. The Apple TV will probably be the most versatile solution using AirPlay Mirroring. If what I know of Google Chromecast is correct, it is much cheaper than Apple TV but more limited because you can only mirror to the TV using either specifically Chromecast-enabled apps or from a tab in the Google Chrome web browser.
If this doesn't sound as easy as you thought, well, this is not a mature area so the fight to create the dominant wireless-to-TV standard is still being fought between Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, etc, who all want to lock out the others, and it is more complicated than it will probably be 5 years from now. That's just the way it is today.
And it's why a lot of us just say, just gimme the $5 cable so I can just plug straight into the TV and be up and running and happy in less than 1 minute...