Apple TV & NRL App

[Diesel]

Does anyone know if you can watch the app through Apple TV by AirPlay? I can get the sound but no audio. I can screen mirror the iPad or iPhone but as soon as I play a video on the app, the TV goes blank/black and the iPad lags or stops

 

[nöyd]

The Foxtel Go app doesn't allow playing through airplay or chromecast, so I dare say the NRL app is not going to work either.

 

[Last Week]

Pretty sure you can't and they want it that way

 

[McLovin]

It was possible last year. Not sure now though, haven't tried it...

 

[Lockyer4President!]

I used to be able to but haven't tried this season.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Can't do it.

Only way you can watch the NRL or Foxtel go app on a tv is to download the ap to a pc or Mac and connect the computer to your tv via a hdmi cable.

 

[Binga]

There was a little glitch last year where I could do it for a few games, but otherwise it isn't meant to work due to licensing agreement with Foxtel and channel 9 who have the Tv rights. You can do it with all replays though.

 

[Diesel]

Is anyone using the app on the iPhone 7? It's chewing my battery this year and also on my iPad, any ideas if there are notifications running in the background or upgrades to the app causing this issue?

 

[Pommy]

Does anyone know if you have a free subscription with telstra you can view game son a laptop on home wifi? My wife is with telstra but its a pain having to borrow her phone.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Does anyone know if you have a free subscription with telstra you can view game son a laptop on home wifi? My wife is with telstra but its a pain having to borrow her phone.

Not sure, but I'd guess so. The only ones you can't view on a laptop are when you sign up for the service through the app on a phone, but you should be able to log in with your Telstra ID on the website.
There's an easy workaround to get full screen playback on a laptop too, set your browser to full screen and use the laptops screen zoom mode to zoom the picture in to full screen. Unfortunately though they've crippled it so you can't output the picture to your TV via any means I know of.

Gotta say though the NRL web interface for vowing live games is an absolute dog of a thing.

 

[Pommy]

Not sure, but I'd guess so. The only ones you can't view on a laptop are when you sign up for the service through the app on a phone, but you should be able to log in with your Telstra ID on the website.
There's an easy workaround to get full screen playback on a laptop too, set your browser to full screen and use the laptops screen zoom mode to zoom the picture in to full screen. Unfortunately though they've crippled it so you can't output the picture to your TV via any means I know of.

Gotta say though the NRL web interface for vowing live games is an absolute dog of a thing.

I will give it a go this weekend
Going to see if I hook my tv up via HDMI if it works. It normally just acts as a second monitor so I don't think they can cripple it that bad, although I could be wrong.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I will give it a go this weekend
Going to see if I hook my tv up via HDMI if it works. It normally just acts as a second monitor so I don't think they can cripple it that bad, although I could be wrong.

I'm afraid your out of luck there mate. They've specifically crippled it so it wont play on external monitors, it doesn't work at all on desktop PCs. On my laptop as soon as I plug in the HDMI cable to the TV the stream dies. Last year it used to work if I had the TV set to mirror the laptop display, this year they seem to have even crippled that.

 

[Pommy]

I'm afraid your out of luck there mate. They've specifically crippled it so it wont play on external monitors, it doesn't work at all on desktop PCs. On my laptop as soon as I plug in the HDMI cable to the TV the stream dies. Last year it used to work if I had the TV set to mirror the laptop display, this year they seem to have even crippled that.

The only hope I have then is that I'm a mac user and they might not have thought it was was worth the hassle of changing the code.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

The only hope I have then is that I'm a mac user and they might not have thought it was was worth the hassle of changing the code.

I hate to be a party pooper but so am I.

However at the moment I'm using a MacBook Air and last year when mirroring was working for me it was with an older MacBook Pro- so you might get some joy depending on what model you're running. But the fun police have done a pretty good job in it I'm afraid!

 

[Incorrect]

If you want to see a decent display size while watching on a laptop, do what I do

 

[SpaceMonkey]

If you want to see a decent display size while watching on a laptop, do what I do

theres a keyboard shortcut for that

 

[Diesel]

Has the screen gotten smaller in the last few weeks? On an iPad or iPhone is only taking up 3/4 of the screen at most

 

[Mong]

I watch live games off the nrl app via air play and through the Apple TV all the time, I don't get a completely full screen but everything else works perfectly.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Has the screen gotten smaller in the last few weeks? On an iPad or iPhone is only taking up 3/4 of the screen at most

Can full screen on the iPhone but not the iPad

 

[Bretto]

So are there any work arounds for this at all? I ditched my Foxtel this year cause the Sports HD package went up to $65/m - stuff that. Is there any other way to watch the games that aren't broadcast on FTA? I'm happy to pay, just not $65/m...