Off to buy...

[professorhat]

Woo Hoo!

When do you get it home?!

 

[John Duncan]

I have taken one for the Team...

It's on the kitchen table (though research will need to continue later, school pickup now)...

 

[professorhat]

Your commitment will be remembered.

 

[Anonymous]

Brilliant. Can't wait to hear how you get on with it and installing that software. Could this be the streaming nirvana?

 

[John Duncan]

Bl--dy well hope so, at 263 quid (plus £8 for a USB stick since I couldn't find one lying around)...

 

[Anonymous]

That's the bit that put me off, it is rather pricey for a closed box, sealed-in-drive machine. But this new software may change all that ........

 

[John Duncan]

Yup. So, things to test:

Composite video out (I'm plugging it into an SD TV)
Adding Apple apps (eg Firefox and, crucially, Spotify)
External HDD streaming support
VOB file video playback

They're my top four, anything else for the list?

 

[Alec]

Why do they call things apple apps when...er...they are not?

 

[professorhat]

Have you got a NAS to test streaming media to Apple TV - would be interested in how that works. Also dragging and dropping stuff into it without iTunes (iTunes is a music only realm for me really).

 

[John Duncan]

al7478:Why do they call things apple apps when...er...they are not?

Whatjoomean?

 

[John Duncan]

professorhat:
Have you got a NAS to test streaming media to Apple TV - would be interested in how that works. Also dragging and dropping stuff into it without iTunes (iTunes is a music only realm for me really).

Well I have a network drive, not a NAS with an OS running iTunes server or suchlike. Which handily has VOB-file movies on it (for research purposes).

 

[Alec]

JohnDuncan: Adding Apple apps (eg Firefox and, crucially, Spotify)

Firefox and spotify are just apps, not apple apps, arent tehy? Unless apple have some stake in them now...

 

[John Duncan]

al7478:
JohnDuncan: Adding Apple apps (eg Firefox and, crucially, Spotify)

Firefox and spotify are just apps, not apple apps, arent tehy? Unless apple have some stake in them now...

Oh right gotcha. I mean apple OSX versions of apps, whoever makes them (as in you can only run apple versions of apps on an @TV with this dongle thingie, as opposed to windows apps - so I need the OSX versions of Firefox and Spotify).

 

[John Duncan]

BTW, not getting into proper setting up till the kids are off to bed, in case any of you are holding your breath...

 

[professorhat]

 

[Alec]

professorhat:

LOL!

 

[John Duncan]

A mwa ha h....ahem.

Anyway, it's set up, on the network, and plugged into the HD telly in the kitchen via component. My iMac can't see it immediately (to pair iTunes to) and neither can my Macbook, but it says to wait a while for computers to find it and I'm competing with the boys playing video games. Oh, and I've bought ATVFlash.

Further bulletins as events warrant - pictures at eleven...

 

[Alec]

i dont even want an atv, but even im slightly excited. sad, really.

 

[John Duncan]

Step one complete. I can play content that's been synced to the @TV, and stream content that hasn't...

 

[PJPro]

So......what's the verdict? I'm assuming the absence of posts means not good?

 

[Messiah]

Well there was more to this thread but it has disappeared...........hmmmmm

 

[Dave_]

It's all on this thread

 

[Messiah]

Oh yeah, there it is!

 

[PJPro]

All a bit odd....and disjointed?

But thanks.

 

[John Duncan]

PJPro:All a bit odd....and disjointed?

But thanks.

I'd have thought you'd know that