Hey everyone,
I just bought the Netgear Push2TV PTV and tried the Miracast with my new Surface 2 and it worked flawlessly!! There's almost 1 second lag between the two screens, but when playing games or videos, the lag seems shorter (almost no lag). Audio is streamed to the TV and my home theater as well, just like HDMI. The video quality is really good, not sure if it's as good as HDMI, but I would say fairly close if not the same. It's better than the iOS airplay implementation quality wise. And the best part is there's several projection options in Windows 8.1, it acts just like a monitor connected with HDMI/VGA, therefore, other than duplicating the screen, I could extend the scene as well. And this turns into some very convenient and interesting uses: I am streaming a HD video stored in my laptop (through homegoup) to my TV while I am using my surface screen for browsing and typing this tread. Looks like the Tegra 4 is more than enough to handle this smoothly.
There are a few catches:
1. The use of the mouse on the TV is slower than normal, so it might be difficult to perform difficult tasks. I think this is due to the display lag using MIracast.. not sure it will be improved in the future.
2. If the Surface screen is off, everything will paused. So I don't think there's a way to play video the TV and turn off the surface screen.
3. Power consumption is pretty high when doing some many things at once.
Hope this helps anyone interested in Maracast use. I do believe things like this show the true power of WIndows/WIndows RT. It's just much more powerful than Android and iOS.
I just bought the Netgear Push2TV PTV and tried the Miracast with my new Surface 2 and it worked flawlessly!! There's almost 1 second lag between the two screens, but when playing games or videos, the lag seems shorter (almost no lag). Audio is streamed to the TV and my home theater as well, just like HDMI. The video quality is really good, not sure if it's as good as HDMI, but I would say fairly close if not the same. It's better than the iOS airplay implementation quality wise. And the best part is there's several projection options in Windows 8.1, it acts just like a monitor connected with HDMI/VGA, therefore, other than duplicating the screen, I could extend the scene as well. And this turns into some very convenient and interesting uses: I am streaming a HD video stored in my laptop (through homegoup) to my TV while I am using my surface screen for browsing and typing this tread. Looks like the Tegra 4 is more than enough to handle this smoothly.
There are a few catches:
1. The use of the mouse on the TV is slower than normal, so it might be difficult to perform difficult tasks. I think this is due to the display lag using MIracast.. not sure it will be improved in the future.
2. If the Surface screen is off, everything will paused. So I don't think there's a way to play video the TV and turn off the surface screen.
3. Power consumption is pretty high when doing some many things at once.
Hope this helps anyone interested in Maracast use. I do believe things like this show the true power of WIndows/WIndows RT. It's just much more powerful than Android and iOS.