Apple TV

[DavieCee]

pwiles1968:I was told the old 160GB TV can be had for £150 in the apple stores if you can find one because there was apparently a surgen in demand for the old one when they released the detail of the new one.

Why bother? The new one is only £100 and 160GB is nowhere enough for a serious collection of music and/or film.

Just curious.......

 

[JoelSim]

DavieCee:
pwiles1968:I was told the old 160GB TV can be had for £150 in the apple stores if you can find one because there was apparently a surgen in demand for the old one when they released the detail of the new one.

Why bother? The new one is only £100 and 160GB is nowhere enough for a serious collection of music and/or film.

Just curious.......

It is if you just want one for the convenience of streaming movies as and when you want to watch one. Why would you transfer all your movies to a hard drive when you can pop the DVD in the DVDP? Or a CD in the CDP for much better quality.

 

[John Duncan]

JoelSim:Or a CD in the CDP for much better quality more getting up and down

 

[JoelSim]

JohnDuncan:JoelSim:Or a CD in the CDP for much better quality more getting up and down

Remind me to record half-ton hospital JD. It's hardly an inconvenience is it, really? 4 paces, hmmm, hah, open jewel case, pop in, play, 4 paces.

Knackered now, I don't know how I'll manage to get up again to play another in an hour or so's time.

 

[John Duncan]

My point was not that you have to get up and down, Joel, it's that the statement "much better quality" is not true. As well you know.

 

[JoelSim]

JohnDuncan:My point was not that you have to get up and down, Joel, it's that the statement "much better quality" is not true. As well you know.

Much better quality than MP3, slightly better than Lossless.

Happy now?

 

[John Duncan]

Close...

 

[JoelSim]

JohnDuncan:Close...

OK probably not quite as good as full definition through a dedicated audiophile-grade music server.

 

[the record spot]

Forget Lovefilm, go for EasyCinema, cheaper, same selection, just minus the adult film content. Otherwise, the same service basically. The price is about £8 for four film hire credits. That's the basic package and the price rises for more films out at one time. You pay upfront for four rents, so it's kind of a PAYG arrangement, but you can watch as much or as little as you wish. Good system and we've used it for some time now.

 

[JoelSim]

the record spot:Forget Lovefilm, go for EasyCinema, cheaper, same selection, just minus the adult film content. Otherwise, the same service basically. The price is about £8 for four film hire credits. That's the basic package and the price rises for more films out at one time. You pay upfront for four rents, so it's kind of a PAYG arrangement, but you can watch as much or as little as you wish. Good system and we've used it for some time now.

I'm going off the idea of LoveFilm, I just wouldn't get £12's worth of value every month. Maybe one every two weeks at a push. Hence why Apple TV is now appealing.

I'm considering stopping Spotify too as I get nowhere near £10's worth per month out of it.

 

[DavieCee]

JoelSim:DavieCee:
pwiles1968:I was told the old 160GB TV can be had for £150 in the apple stores if you can find one because there was apparently a surgen in demand for the old one when they released the detail of the new one.

Why bother? The new one is only £100 and 160GB is nowhere enough for a serious collection of music and/or film.

Just curious.......

It is if you just want one for the convenience of streaming movies as and when you want to watch one. Why would you transfer all your movies to a hard drive when you can pop the DVD in the DVDP? Or a CD in the CDP for much better quality.

Exactly my point. The new one does the streaming part and is cheaper. All you lose is the hard drive which is nowhere large enough anyway.

PS:- In my current set-up lossless files through the DAC sound better than my CD player. Might be heading for Ebay

 

[JoelSim]

Yes I think the new one will definitely work for me.

My CDP is also my DAC as it has a digital input, so I get the best of both worlds, but it's CD every time for late night listening. Just nicer than Lossless, more rounded.

 

[professorhat]

JoelSim:
the record spot:Forget Lovefilm, go for EasyCinema, cheaper, same selection, just minus the adult film content. Otherwise, the same service basically. The price is about £8 for four film hire credits. That's the basic package and the price rises for more films out at one time. You pay upfront for four rents, so it's kind of a PAYG arrangement, but you can watch as much or as little as you wish. Good system and we've used it for some time now.

I'm going off the idea of LoveFilm, I just wouldn't get £12's worth of value every month. Maybe one every two weeks at a push. Hence why Apple TV is now appealing.

Why not drop down to the 2 rentals per month at £3.99 instead? It's what I'm on now after I found I was constantly battling to watch Lovefilm rentals or feeling I was losing out. 2 per month is just about perfect for me now. Or you could go on to the pay as you go scheme.

 

[pwiles1968]

JoelSim:DavieCee:

pwiles1968:I was told the old 160GB TV can be had for £150 in the apple stores if you can find one because there was apparently a surgen in demand for the old one when they released the detail of the new one.

Why bother? The new one is only £100 and 160GB is nowhere enough for a serious collection of music and/or film.

Just curious.......

It is if you just want one for the convenience of streaming movies as and when you want to watch one. Why would you transfer all your movies to a hard drive when you can pop the DVD in the DVDP? Or a CD in the CDP for much better quality.

100GB+ of music on a stand alone media player is a pretty good selection even in losless and if the PC in the back room then I have a 1TB drive on there and can have music playing in 3 rooms simultaneously (4 when i wire the kitchen), don't really use it for movies but I have a few on there for the kids on the 1TB.

My Main reason for going to a server was that I was only listening to the batch of CD's closest to the player, now I have the whole collection only a touch away and with Genius Mixes and playlists i am listening to songs I have overlooked for years.

As Far as sound quality the difference is so small that it is not worth worrying about, I have got back to actually listening to my music and i still have the option of putting a CD on the player if I want too.

 

[DavieCee]

pwiles1968:My main reason for going to a server was that I was only listening to the batch of CD's closest to the player, now I have the whole collection only a touch away and with Genius Mixes and playlists i am listening to songs I have overlooked for years.

I think we are agreeing but wording it badly.

The old Apple TV with 160GB was good if you only have a small collection or lower resolution files. I currently have 140Gb music & 40Gb films & TV and still loads of CDs to re-rip and vinyl to copy, plus new purchases.

If you have a large collection you need a larger storage device/server in which case the new version will cope nicely for less money.

 

[JoelSim]

professorhat:JoelSim:

the record spot:Forget Lovefilm, go for EasyCinema, cheaper, same selection, just minus the adult film content. Otherwise, the same service basically. The price is about £8 for four film hire credits. That's the basic package and the price rises for more films out at one time. You pay upfront for four rents, so it's kind of a PAYG arrangement, but you can watch as much or as little as you wish. Good system and we've used it for some time now.

I'm going off the idea of LoveFilm, I just wouldn't get £12's worth of value every month. Maybe one every two weeks at a push. Hence why Apple TV is now appealing.

Why not drop down to the 2 rentals per month at £3.99 instead? It's what I'm on now after I found I was constantly battling to watch Lovefilm rentals or feeling I was losing out. 2 per month is just about perfect for me now. Or you could go on to the pay as you go scheme.

I thought you had to get the 'unlimited' package in order to stream LF?

 

[professorhat]

Ah, okay, yes. Thought you were talking renting one disc every 2 weeks.

 

[pwiles1968]

DavieCee:
pwiles1968:My main reason for going to a server was that I was only listening to the batch of CD's closest to the player, now I have the whole collection only a touch away and with Genius Mixes and playlists i am listening to songs I have overlooked for years.

I think we are agreeing but wording it badly.

The old Apple TV with 160GB was good if you only have a small collection or lower resolution files. I currently have 140Gb music & 40Gb films & TV and still loads of CDs to re-rip and vinyl to copy, plus new purchases.

If you have a large collection you need a larger storage device/server in which case the new version will cope nicely for less money.

The new one seems OK I was just keen on being able to have some of my music available without having to start the PC, and as this one cost me £106 from Best Buy the US it was a no Brainer for me.

For around $50 you can get software hack the Old TV so it can use an external drive you can put as big a collection as you like on it, i think I will be happy with 100 Gig or so of my favourite albums on there and if I want a wider choice of music or the odd movie having the PC on in the back room is not such a hardship.

 

[JoelSim]

professorhat:
Ah, okay, yes. Thought you were talking renting one disc every 2 weeks.

I had that, but by the time the disk arrives I'm not in the mood to watch it. I really need something that I can choose to watch there and then, otherwise it doesn't work.