Screen mirroring

MNGeeks61 wrote:
Samsung's mirroring isn't great. I have a Galaxy S6 and a Samsung TV and can mirror it, but the audio is delayed substantially when playing games/movies.

Same here when I mirror from my Galaxy to my Samsung TV - significant delay though the image quality is okay. It's no better or worse from the Galaxy to my Sony TV. I'm not sure if screen mirroring is really the best option for streaming. Perhaps some sort of wired connection would be better?

MrWizard wrote:
I'm not sure we are thinking the same thing
the phone will send a signal to the TV via HDMI using a cable with micro hdmi on the phone end

BUT mirroring on my vizio TV requires using a device using both the HDMI port for the video signal and the USB port for powering the device

i admit i'm not familiar with trying to mirror the phone via the bluray player
but I assume you would need wifi connection to the BR player and HDMI cable from the player to the TV
and would have to activate the player first via its built in function from the player menu, then link the phone to the player

i have used both phone and tablet via hdmi to the TV, to display movies
but now i just use my media player connected to the internet via wifi

as i remember it the GoogleTV is supposed to connect to the internet via wifi and be controlled by your phone, isn't supposed to mirror your laptop ?

Some newer tv's no longer need the hdmi cable thing you describe. They simply "broadcast" the screen via wifi from the phone to the tv.

I have yet to see this work anywhere and did spend the $35 for the google dongle which proved not to work so I took it back when I realized it was not going to do what I was thinking.

I was able to "send" youtube videos to my tv with the google device but nothing else.

I'm not sure we are thinking the same thing
the phone will send a signal to the TV via HDMI using a cable with micro hdmi on the phone end

BUT mirroring on my vizio TV requires using a device using both the HDMI port for the video signal and the USB port for powering the device

i admit i'm not familiar with trying to mirror the phone via the bluray player
but I assume you would need wifi connection to the BR player and HDMI cable from the player to the TV
and would have to activate the player first via its built in function from the player menu, then link the phone to the player

i have used both phone and tablet via hdmi to the TV, to display movies
but now i just use my media player connected to the internet via wifi

as i remember it the GoogleTV is supposed to connect to the internet via wifi and be controlled by your phone, isn't IT supposed to mirror your laptop ?

MNGeeks61 wrote:
Samsung's mirroring isn't great. I have a Galaxy S6 and a Samsung TV and can mirror it, but the audio is delayed substantially when playing games/movies.

Fairly sure if you try to mirror to a Sony you'd need hardware like an Allshare hub. Samsung mirrors best to Samsung.

Sorry I don't know more about the S4 mirroring.

Thanks for the info. I'm glad I didn't spend a bunch of money trying to get this working. I'll just have to be happy with dvd movies or OTA channels. I've found the redbox app is a pretty cool thing. You can reserve a movie at any nearby redbox location and drop it off anywhere.

Samsung's mirroring isn't great. I have a Galaxy S6 and a Samsung TV and can mirror it, but the audio is delayed substantially when playing games/movies.

Fairly sure if you try to mirror to a Sony you'd need hardware like an Allshare hub. Samsung mirrors best to Samsung.

Sorry I don't know more about the S4 mirroring.

Edit: the S4 had an MHL port apparently, this would probably be better for lag-free mirroring:

might work