In other words, Miracast isn’t doing too well. The same app can be used to turn a Windows PC into a Miracast receiver.) ( Update: It took more than five years-but, as of March 13, 2019, the Xbox One can now function as a Miracast receiver if you install the Wireless Display app. You’d be wrong-the Xbox One can’t function as a Miracast receiver. This would make streaming from a Windows 8.1 tablet to your TV via your Xbox One possible and easy. You might assume that, since Microsoft added built-in Miracast support to Windows 8.1, their Xbox One console would function as a Miracast receiver. You’d probably assume that it only worked with other Samsung devices supporting AllShare Cast - and you might not be wrong, considering how many theoretically compatible Miracast devices are incompatible with each other! For example, LG calls their Miracast support “SmartShare,” Samsung calls it “AllShare Cast,” Sony calls it “screen mirroring, ” and Panasonic calls it “display mirroring.” You might pick up a new Samsung TV, see the “AllShare Cast” logo on the box, and not be aware that this is theoretically a Miracast-compatible TV. Manufacturers have taken to calling their Miracast implementations other things. Check out this table of test results to see just how much of an incompatible mess Miracast seems to be.Īnother problem is that the standard doesn’t mandate devices be branded with the “Miracast” brand. The standard seems to have collapsed in practice - it’s not really a standard. While devices are supposed to interface with other devices that support the standard, many Miracast-certified devices just don’t work (or don’t work well) with Miracast-certified receivers.
While Miracast is theoretically a standard, there are only a handful of Miracast receivers out there that actually work well in practice. In practice, Miracast hasn’t worked out so well.
Miracast support is built into Android 4.2+ and Windows 8.1, allowing Android smartphones, Windows tablets and laptops, and other devices to wirelessly stream to Miracast-compliant receivers. Miracast is an industry-wide standard that’s essentially a response to Apple’s AirPlay. If you want to stream from a Windows laptop or to a device that isn’t an Apple TV, you’re out of luck. If you have a Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, you’ll be happy with it. Even while fiddling with the playback controls on your iPhone’s screen, they wouldn’t appear on your TV - AirPlay is smart enough to stream only the content you want to see on the display.ĪirPlay works very well, but it has a big limitation - it only works with Apple devices. For example, you could play a video in an app on an iPhone and use the playback controls on your iPhone to control the video on your TV. It can use display mirroring to mirror the contents of a device’s display, or use a streaming mode that’s smarter. Apple’s AirPlay standard is flexible enough to work in two different ways.
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