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Nath

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11th Oct 11 at 17:21

Getting a bit personal in here.

Cavey

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11th Oct 11 at 17:30

A thread about an Apple product descending into petty arguements?! Surely not

Nath

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11th Oct 11 at 17:31

I'm afraid so.

strick206

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11th Oct 11 at 18:13

WTF is going on in here?

What is Apple TV?

I'm not an apple fanboy and have no idea what it is, i currently use gigabyte homeplugs from my PC to a PS3 and use TVersity?

Could i improve this?

Cavey

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11th Oct 11 at 18:20

In a word No. Not really.

It's a media streamer, the only advantage it has over ps3, or WDTV is that you can use it for Airplay from your Apple branded devices

(And it's shiny and has an apple logo on it)

That's my opinion Davey will be here shortly telling you why it's better than that

Gary

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11th Oct 11 at 18:23

Tbh that's about it.

Looks nicer and remote looks cool. It's also female compatable, even the missus can work it

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11th Oct 11 at 18:26

quote:
Originally posted by John
I only live with mine

Just cos your VR girlfriend is on your PC in the house dosent count as living with.

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11th Oct 11 at 18:29

What about the fact that it can take 1080p video, mkv (standard for high-def, for you noobs, Gary, Davey) and play almost any other file format?

Oh, and play content through the usb port!

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11th Oct 11 at 18:33

quote:
Originally posted by Cavey
In a word No. Not really.

It's a media streamer, the only advantage it has over ps3, or WDTV is that you can use it for Airplay from your Apple branded devices

(And it's shiny and has an apple logo on it)

That's my opinion Davey will be here shortly telling you why it's better than that

Cheers Cavey,

What's Airplay?

pow

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11th Oct 11 at 18:33

Ohhh I'm tempted to buyyy oneee

noshua

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11th Oct 11 at 18:35

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Originally posted by DaveyLC

Actually.. He said something BETTER and CHEAPER..

That WDTV actually retails for £99 from reputable retailers and you need to buy a storage device and a wifi dongle plus it doesnt do half the stuff the ATV does out of the box.

To be honest, depends what you use it for. Davey and Gary obviously don't download much and thus stream

from website such as MegaVideo so it's perfect.

I on the other hand like to have my media downloaded so I can watch it whenever and instantly in the highest quality.

One of these boxes would be perfect for my Mum, bang it in the front room with Plex or XBMC installed and have it look up a networked hard drive/server with TV/Films/Pictures on and jobs a good 'un.

Cavey

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11th Oct 11 at 18:42

quote:
Originally posted by strick206

quote:
Originally posted by Cavey
In a word No. Not really.

It's a media streamer, the only advantage it has over ps3, or WDTV is that you can use it for Airplay from your Apple branded devices

(And it's shiny and has an apple logo on it)

That's my opinion Davey will be here shortly telling you why it's better than that

Cheers Cavey,

What's Airplay?

Means you can use your iPhone on your TV, so if you have a film, or mp3s etc... on your iPhone, it would stream through the AppleTV box onto your TV.

As Noshua said though, AppleTV only does 720, not 1080 that your current ps3 setup does

Gary

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11th Oct 11 at 18:51

Does 1080 when jailbroken to xbmc

mwg

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11th Oct 11 at 18:52

can you get it in white

Dom

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11th Oct 11 at 19:00

quote:
Originally posted by Gary
Does 1080 when jailbroken to xbmc

When i was peeing around with XBMC on the ATV2 it'd accept 1080p material but it'd downscale to 720p due to hardware/design limitation. Interesting if it actually outputs 1080p; have you got a source or info about 1080p output?

strick206

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11th Oct 11 at 19:06

quote:
Originally posted by Cavey

Means you can use your iPhone on your TV, so if you have a film, or mp3s etc... on your iPhone, it would stream through the AppleTV box onto your TV.

As Noshua said though, AppleTV only does 720, not 1080 that your current ps3 setup does

Thank You Cavey, very helpful

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11th Oct 11 at 21:43

I'm looking for something that will play my DVDRip format files, will this work?

Gary

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11th Oct 11 at 21:49

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I'm looking for something that will play my DVDRip format files, will this work?

Yes m8, ATV does dot-dee-vee-dee rip formats. Nuff clear. Innit.

Love you, kisses xxxx

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11th Oct 11 at 21:53

Some right lines in here, DVDRip format, Full HD DVDRips, Think you need to be a virgin also to be that elite.

@willay - I had a Popcorn Hour A-110 (second gen of the first version, updated to support SATA drives mainly) and I ditched it for a VDPAU (i.e. GPU that can de-code HD material) system - Acer Revo.

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by noshua]

Dom

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11th Oct 11 at 22:09

quote:
Originally posted by John
I'm looking for something that will play my DVDRip format files, will this work?

You can also get Full HD DVDRips

Davey's like the video format version of Bubble, leaking AV secrets on CS!

noshua - Why did you change to the Revo? What frontend are you running?

[Edited on 11-10-2011 by Dom]

Gary

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11th Oct 11 at 22:34

Love you too dom xxxx

DaveyLC

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12th Oct 11 at 08:50

So in summary:

If you are not an UBER NERD with a 1TB spank-bank this is the device for you! You dont need to have a NAS full of movies and you dont need to spend your life finding and downloading them.. Also you dont need to leave your PC on!

Dom

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12th Oct 11 at 10:00

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Originally posted by DaveyLC
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12th Oct 11 at 10:09

Do any of these media streaming boxes support Love Film or similar? The Apple TV does look like a pretty decent idea, but iTunes video rental is pretty pricey.

Dom

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12th Oct 11 at 10:24

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Originally posted by ed
Do any of these media streaming boxes support Love Film or similar? The Apple TV does look like a pretty decent idea, but iTunes video rental is pretty pricey.

From what i remember LoveFilm haven't released API access to online content, so plugins (Plex for example) tend to be bodged flash players which run ok but aren't brilliant and have bugs. But then again i found LoveFilm to be pretty piss poor with regards to online content.
A better bet would be to get a Netflix account + VPN (few free US ones that work ok) and use a Netflix plugin - XBMC's Netflix plugin was pretty decent last time i used it.

As for standalone streamers, off the top of my head i don't know any that support LoveFilm (again due to API restrictions). There are a fair few that support Netflix though, Popcorn Hour being one of them.

Edit - Worth installing XBMC/Plex and trying it out.

[Edited on 12-10-2011 by Dom]