I have a TV/display screen wall-mounted in portrait mode, and would like to know if it's possible to mirror an iPad to the screen in portrait through the Apple TV. Will the Apple TV naturally mirror the iPad screen in portrait mode, or is the 'native' display of the ATV set to landscape (if that makes sense)?
Apple TV
And here is portrait...
And here is portrait...
I need to accomplish the same thing mention earlier. I either need lightning to HDMI or Apple TV to a 48" (tv) monitor. I mount portrait. Change orientation on tv menu to portrait. Connect via airplay or input on hdmi. And I have the black bars on the left and right side. See photo
True. It is a 4:3 aspect ration but when you use lightning to hdmi on a computer monitor (no tuner) it filled the entire 16:9 aspect of the monitor. I am having issues replicating on a larger monitor with tuner built-in. I know the tuner has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Thanks for the reply.
Mirroring will mirror the display - if the device is in landscape then the mirror will be in landscape or if the device is in portrait then the mirror will be in portrait. However, it's important to note that apps can restrict this functionality rather than either device restricting it....
This helpful, thank you!
For further clarification, does the Apple TV menu remain in landscape (no matter which way the screen is positioned)? I can live with that, but just need to be able to mirror an iPad screen in portrait, if that makes sense.
Not sure I understand. Once you initiate AirPlay, the Apple TV menu "disappears" as its now displaying whatever is displayed on the iPad/iPhone.
http://www.apple.com/lae/airplay/
"Rotate from portrait to landscape and your audience sees that, too. AirPlay does it all wirelessly, so you can work the room or sit comfortably among the crowd. If you see it, so can they."
As I see it, there are at least a couple of possibilities with all of this:
1) The Apple TV has a 'native' landscape orientation, which means that only when the screen being mirrored is in landscape mode will the full TV screen be filled (and portrait display will only ever fill the height of the screen in landscape mode and there will be black bars on the side of the image for the rest of the screen space). If the TV screen is displayed in portrait mode, the image will be on its side;
2) The Apple TV has a 'native' landscape orientation, but only in regards to the Apple TV menu, which means that as soon as the Airplay functionality is engaged it won't really matter;
3) The Apple TV will accomodate to the orientation of the screen (no matter if it's mounted landscape or portrait, and this will be the case for both the menu and the Airplay mirroring, etc.).
I can live with 2) or 3), but 1) is going to be a real problem.
I don't know if any of this makes sense. Perhaps I'm overthinking it, but the first option is really going to be a problem (so I need to ensure it's not the case).
My suggestion. Take your iPad to the Apple Store and demo it for yourself. Or there is a14day return policy of you want to try it and have the option to return if it does not do what you want.
I am still not sure I understand the question. Once you initiate the AirPlay function it will "mirror" the display from the iPad to the connected tv/projector - what you see on the iPad is what you would see on the second display.
here is a photo of my airplay
These images are helpful, and illustrate the question I'm asking.
If the TV was wall-mounted in portrait position, would the screen mirroring look exactly the same on the screen as it does in those images? (Picture the images rotated 90 degrees to the left.) Does the question make sense now?
I would assume so. Since we can rotate the iPad during AirPlay to change the landscape/portrait it wouldn't matter if the TV is mounted in landscape/portrait either. I don't know what the position of the TV would have in the airplay...
I want to mount the TV in Portrait mode and have it completely fill in.
An ipad display is 4:3 so it's not going to fill your TV screen, which is 16:9. There are tv settings that can stretch the image but that is going to cause distortion and/or cropping.
Then that monitor was scaling it, that is not normal Behaviour
Can I mirror an iPad/iPhone screen on a portrait TV screen through Apple TV?
