Implicit question about using Apple TVs with NDI for multi-screen displays in presentations and events.
ASKED BY · Unknown · 25 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:13:13
A panelist describes using Apple TVs on the back of conference room TVs, connecting them to a network switch to receive NDI with Sienna NDI monitor app. This avoids needing dedicated video routing infrastructure and works well in spaces without broadcast-level equipment.
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12:55All you need is a capable switch and a little grid so you don't lose your place. Yeah, I like it when I'm doing presentations and I need to have – I'm doing presentations in a space that isn't set up for – like there's no video router there's no distribution um in a in a traditional sense like i don't have copper but i know that if i can get like a hotel to bring like a conference room
13:26or a meeting room to bring me two or three tvs i can then literally slap an apple tv on the back of each of them and I bring up the Ciena NDI monitor and then I just have my presentation go out with scan converter and then rather than trying to do like when it's one TV and I have an Apple TV I just do an airplay I know that it's
13:49not as rock-solid but most of the time it just works and in an office with a lot of Mac people it is handy that anybody can just take their take their computer or their phone and go boop boop boop and then have their stuff up on the TV. If I'm trying to go to multiple monitors, then, and I know that there are more broadcast
14:11professional type applications for this, but if I have a couple of, you know, Apple, three Apple TVs sitting around for the last three years, wire them all up with ethernet into a switch so that they can, can receive the NDI with that Sienna monitor app. And then boom, it's really good. I've even, even one time I did it, uh, we had a special guest that was coming in, uh, to a tour,
14:33of our building and we didn't have any kind of uh we didn't have anything for digital signage and so uh we did the same trick where i just threw apple tvs on a tv in the lobby and then the tv you know further into the building and then had uh one of the roadcaster video s's sending out what i wanted broadcast on those screens and then like so i could remotely control it over on
15:02the network and it was kind of magical when all was like it just it was a little extra something that really really made the difference but besides that i have uh i have a tail two yeah ob spot tail two that i'll most of the time not have any trouble just it's not a very complex network but i haven't said i haven't had to set up any special vlans for yet when i just want to
15:28put it somewhere in the building that we need a live video from because the other thing that we'll do is a virtual building tour where I'll have my uh I literally built like a little cart with uh with the computer and the with the computer one tail two and this was going over wi-fi because we had that it was like a 200,000 square foot building so I
15:55I couldn't do cables the whole way. And that actually held up pretty well the whole time. But did the virtual plant tour mobile. And then when I wanted to cut to a wide, I had another camera in the building over NDI that I was able to cut to. And it did a really nice job. Next question. All right. This is from Paul Valhus in Austin, Texas.
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