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<blockquote data-quote="Ned Ward" data-source="post: 15667" data-attributes="member: 100"><p>Re: Home Theaters.watcha got?</p><p></p><p>Apple TV for us is great - we have all of our photos synced to it from iPhoto, so showing friends and family photos is a breeze.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Same with music - all playlists synced.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Movies - we have the original 40GB one but have a bunch of kids movies (mostly Japanese Miyazake movies that are that region and we've converted with Handbrake) or other ones we'll watch a lot. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We also use the Apple renting system for renting movies on Movie night. HD streams very well on FIOS and Wireless N, and for $4.99 for HD movies it beats having to take the whole family to see Guardians of Gahoole and spentd $50 and not be able to have 90 minutes of my life back.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The new version is $99 and just streams content from your computer, so there's no storage limit. There is a flash memory buffer in the unit, so that you can stream and back up in the middle of a movie. Worth getting; the new ones also have a feature that you can have a movie, song or photo on your iPhone/iPad and you can stream it to your TV if you have the new AppleTV. Neat.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We'll probably update both our AppleTVs to the new ones come tax refund time, but they work fine for now except for the streaming media from your iPhone part. You can get one of these old ones for $50-ish on fleabay, but at that price, I'd spend the hundy and get the newest deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ned Ward, post: 15667, member: 100"] Re: Home Theaters.watcha got? Apple TV for us is great - we have all of our photos synced to it from iPhoto, so showing friends and family photos is a breeze. Same with music - all playlists synced. Movies - we have the original 40GB one but have a bunch of kids movies (mostly Japanese Miyazake movies that are that region and we've converted with Handbrake) or other ones we'll watch a lot. We also use the Apple renting system for renting movies on Movie night. HD streams very well on FIOS and Wireless N, and for $4.99 for HD movies it beats having to take the whole family to see Guardians of Gahoole and spentd $50 and not be able to have 90 minutes of my life back. The new version is $99 and just streams content from your computer, so there's no storage limit. There is a flash memory buffer in the unit, so that you can stream and back up in the middle of a movie. Worth getting; the new ones also have a feature that you can have a movie, song or photo on your iPhone/iPad and you can stream it to your TV if you have the new AppleTV. Neat. We'll probably update both our AppleTVs to the new ones come tax refund time, but they work fine for now except for the streaming media from your iPhone part. You can get one of these old ones for $50-ish on fleabay, but at that price, I'd spend the hundy and get the newest deal. [/QUOTE]
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