Originally Posted by icebergx:
“Is air playing via iPhone worse than iPad? How much worse is it? It's my preferred way of watching the footy as it's so dam easy, so I'd be disappointed if this didn't work properly.
Also, when you say "web," do you mean watching it on a browser on you mac/PC or via some other method?
Thanks.”
Yes, for some reason, some broadcasters forget that people may want to airplay content to the big screen, so they look at the smaller mobile phone screen and decide all that is needed is a low quality stream (it does save them money in bandwidth).
Since tablet apps on iOS are almost always different to iPhone ones, the iPad is treated differently and usually sports the full quality stream (the screen is bigger afterall).
PLP do this, so the iPhone maxes at 1600kbps with the iPad maxing at 4500kbps. All Android devices, tablet or phones are the same as the iPhone at 1600kbps, since tablets are ignored really on Android.
Not all broadcasters do this. I love to bring Zattoo up (because they are amazing) and all their live streams are the same for iPad as for iPhone or Android.