Airplay, ATV and Extended Desktop

I for one really like this feature, but there still are some bumps. For example, When I move a Safari window to the ATV display, start a video, and then try to go full screen, many times it goes full screen on the computer display. I think that this is a behavior that will improve with future iterations of Mavericks, but it is kind of annoying now. Any thoughts on how to make this behavior more consistent (i.e., keep the airplay displays consistent and keep the apps running in these window on these windows)?

Hi there mattfromar,
You may find the troubleshooting steps toward the bottom of the article below helpful.
About AirPlay Mirroring in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5404
-Griff W. 

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