https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/906613681672396805
I saw this today, and evidently AppleTV TvOS has multicast support, so ESPN can enable this.
Does AndroidTv support this? If not, I'm a bit jealous of AppleTV. If it does, ESPN and others need to implement this.
Could easily be done in the ESPN app. I kinda think the OS wouldn't be the better option to implement it. You'd just have 4 instances of the app open showing 4 streams. Seems to me that you could just have 1 app open and pulling down 4 streams by itself.
Also, multicast means something different to Google.
Some apps have Pip in the app itself. Android TV supports PIP at the OS level but apps need to allow it and few do.
This can be done in certain apps, take Fox Sports app for example. It's called Grid View in PIP options of the app. Really wish Live Channels and Watch ESPN had it too.
This can be done in certain apps, take Fox Sports app for example. It's called Grid View in PIP options of the app. Really wish Live Channels and Watch ESPN had it too.
It has pip only with the live TV app
Not sure this is multicast. Multicast means taking one stream and sharing that between devices (a bit like how broadcast TV works - one signal, lots of people receive it). Multicast tends not to work through domestic ISPs, either - many routers aren't configured to deal with it.
This is either an Apple TV receiving four individual streams and decoding each; or (the way I'd do this) an Apple TV receiving one stream looking like four screens. The bandwidth requirements for four streams simultaneously probably wouldn't be ideal.
Multicast = multiroom sound on Chromecast Audio. (Again, one stream incoming, and sharing that between devices).