clearanceman said: Who would buy this? Lots of better options, IMO.
Not for an Apple centric user/family, no.
Apple TV is fantastic we use ours (4 units) heavily. I could care less about JB, in fact I'm gonna sell my version 2 units soon to profit as they seem to be getting a nice premium these days.
I have and enjoy both my Apple TV and Roku. Only thing I don't like about the Apple TV is the remote. It's way too small in my opinion. I don't use it anyway though so it's a non issue for me.
bones11111111111
New Member
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 3:24p
Works great with Netflix and airplay. If you own an iPad and newer Ivy Bridge mac than it's very handy to use airplay either for games etc, they show up nice on my 55" samsung. I stream all my content to it: movies, pictures, and music to my HDTV. Everyone in the house has a remote (iphone)
Roku is cool too but if you own lots of apple products this little box pulls them all together nicely (airplay, icloud.. etc)
bones11111111111 said: Works great with Netflix and airplay. If you own an iPad and newer Ivy Bridge mac than it's very handy to use airplay either for games etc, they show up nice on my 55" samsung. I stream all my content to it: movies, pictures, and music to my HDTV. Everyone in the house has a remote (iphone)
Roku is cool too but if you own lots of apple products this little box pulls them all together nicely (airplay, icloud.. etc)
can this stream h264?
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 4:45p
OOS everywhere. Have a $10 coupon too, making it $79. Oh well.
Dilbertic
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 5:34p
I thought 89.00 was the going sale price for this, not sure if this is hot or not...
Silentguilt said: bones11111111111 said: Works great with Netflix and airplay. If you own an iPad and newer Ivy Bridge mac than it's very handy to use airplay either for games etc, they show up nice on my 55" samsung. I stream all my content to it: movies, pictures, and music to my HDTV. Everyone in the house has a remote (iphone)
Roku is cool too but if you own lots of apple products this little box pulls them all together nicely (airplay, icloud.. etc)
can this stream h264?
Of course. I've converted my DVD library, and it works great. Much better than hunting down the DVD.
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 6:50p
Even though it showed OOS at my local BB, I went anyway. After all, there is always a pile of them for sale.
Not a single one in the store.
It's amazing what a $10 discount on Apple products causes people to do!
This product is still available online and in North Georgia it is available at many stores (at least according to the website)
My main complaint about this device is that it does not support gigabit networks.
vipercon
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 8:42p
frett said: My main complaint about this device is that it does not support gigabit networks.
And you would need it... why? This has no local storage, all it does is stream 100 is still faster than the highest quality the box can stream and play back.
vipercon said: frett said: My main complaint about this device is that it does not support gigabit networks.
And you would need it... why? This has no local storage, all it does is stream 100 is still faster than the highest quality the box can stream and play back. Good point. I forgot it has no storage!
dpid
Ancient Member
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 9:07p
This is perfect if you already have other mac products. I utilize the airplay quite a bit since this is hooked to my sound system. There might be better options out there, but for anyone who has a couple of mac products, this is probably the best. Simple and easy to use. The only downside for me is that it doesn't support Amaz0n VOD.
bobprendergast
New Member
posted: Dec. 21, 2012 @ 10:59p
yeah I just used handbreak and did all my dvds for the kids etc and store them on a drive on my network. I think ATV will only get better and right now I'm happy with it, man I would flip if they added a OTA TV tuner, guide and DVR functions
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