Apple TV

[Alex_225]

Has anyone got an Apple TV set up at home?

I'm wondering whether it's worth me investing as I quite like the idea of having my music/movies available on my TV and hi-fi.

Does it just simplify the Mac interface so you can access your movies or is it just simply a transmitter of your computers screen?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Has anyone got an Apple TV set up at home?

Yes.

I'm wondering whether it's worth me investing as I quite like the idea of having my music/movies available on my TV and hi-fi.

Yes.

it just simply a transmitter of your computers screen?

Yes... and then some.

Read the propaganda on Apple's website. Will tell you all you need to know.

 

[rankins]

awesome piece of kit i always airplay from my macbook esp when streaming

 

[Tom]

Agreed, seems useless on paper. But for some reason i use mine all the time.

Netflix, Youtube, Streaming s**t i've bought. Airplay is very handy too.

 

[Scrooge]

Does Apple tv have a USB input?

 

[Tom]

No.

 

[Scrooge]

Rubbish lol

 

[Longy]

Apple TV is fanatstic. Watch a film from my IPad on the TV then when I need a crap I switch the film back to the ipad and carry on watching -awesome.

 

[Cup_Phil]

I've got 3 now - utterly superb

2tb of movies/tv in a network drive - itunes running on my office mac mini - can watch all the movies/tv in 1080P HD on any of the 3 tv's in the house.

It's a must have!

 

[Ronnie R]

Have a look in here http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?610900-Apple-TV

 

[Alex_225]

Thanks for the feedback guys it sounds like a more useful bit of kit than it probably gets credit for.

I just like the idea of streaming movies off my iMac/iPad/iPhone plus the more I rip my CD collection to digital format, the more I'm likely to scrap the CD player I have and opt to stream my audio digitally.

Plus could be handy as we have a decent sized TV in the bedroom that's a bit wasted just watching Freeview through.

 

[chris_p]

I've got 3 now - utterly superb

2tb of movies/tv in a network drive - itunes running on my office mac mini - can watch all the movies/tv in 1080P HD on any of the 3 tv's in the house.

It's a must have!

Is there any way of getting your music from your Mac mini onto your ipad? I.e sharing your iTunes over the network or something?

 

[Tom]

Yes. Turn on Home sharing. Then open music.

 

[markkram]

Yes.
I have nothing stored on my iPad. Everything is streamed over WiFi from my iMac.

 

[Cup_Phil]

Yep as Tom said - home sharing makes your music appear on all your devices - or I'd recommend the iCloud Match service

It puts all your music in the iCloud on your account - then you don't have to have it on your iPad/iPhone - but when you want it you can stream it from iCloud or download it to your device

 

[chris_p]

Yes. Turn on Home sharing. Then open music.

Yes.
I have nothing stored on my iPad. Everything is streamed over WiFi from my iMac.

Yep as Tom said - home sharing makes your music appear on all your devices - or I'd recommend the iCloud Match service

It puts all your music in the iCloud on your account - then you don't have to have it on your iPad/iPhone - but when you want it you can stream it from iCloud or download it to your device

Cheers