ps3 or apple tv

[carter]

ive got a ps3 with all my music saved on (320) going in to dac magic but ive just saved all my music again to i tunes lossless is it worth me investing in apple tv .would i see improvment over ps3.

 

[professorhat]

I'd have a look into this post. It seems you can now stream your Apple Lossless files to your PS3 using Foobar2000 and the media server PJ mentions. I haven't tried it as yet, but PJ knows his onions on this sort of thing.

 

[Anonymous]

Streaming wirelessly is the easiest option. If you really want, you can put Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3 and work it from there.

 

[carter]

thanx guys my only concern do you loose much quality streaming ive got a sling box hooked up to my sky + in the bedroom and i loose a lot of pq even in the house to my 15 inch laptop.would this be the same with audio .i dont have a lot of music about 80 gb saved apple lossless wouldent it be better saved to a hard drive or is audio streaming alot less damanding.

 

[professorhat]

Audio doesn't have the same bandwidth requirements of video. I'm pretty sure the Slingbox actually compresses the video down to a smaller resolution so it can be sent over the internet which explains the quality loss you're seeing. Streaming music to your PS3 / Airport Express / Apple TV doesn't use any lossy compression so there shouldn't be any quality loss from the streaming process itself.

 

[carter]

ok cool this might be worth a try .how far behind say a £250 cd player would this be.