Enabling Airplay on older Macs with Airparrot: Worth $9,99 or not?

There has been many questions about why newly updated Macs don't support Airplay mirroring, including from myself. The answer is found here: http://www.cultofmac.com/178460/the-real-reason-why-macs-before-2011-cant-use-ai rplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion-feature/
There is however another solution found in Airparrot. I've tried it, and it works. It does however have some issues. It does not seem to support fullscreen, nor am I able to use the TV as a second screen. It struggled when I tried to play a movie as a mirror, and it became unwatchable at best.
Anyone else had any experience with it?

Maybe it has improved since I tested it, that was back in the days when they admitted there was no audio. However by the sounds of things, whilst they now have audio it does seem to be rather poor judging only by others reports.
As you know, I consider myself to have a fairly robust network, but was very unimpressed with the delivery of video over this service. If it was some sort of satellite link to my long lost brother deep in the bush in Australia, I may well endure it, however this is supposed to be entertainment and for those purposes it just isn't good enough. I'm probably exaggerating a little bit when I compare it to watching a movie back in the days of dial up, but it really wasn't all that much better overall.

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