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Couple Basic Questions About Apple TV

1: If you are using airplay replicate what’s on your ipad or iphone to stream video from sites the old fashion way through your browser, will it stream quickly through the Apple TV box at a rate similar to a computer? Or will it have to go through your ipad/iphone at their god awful slow speeds?

2: I read on here, “Click Computers on the Apple TV menu to stream your photos, home videos, and music collection from your Mac or PC. And Apple TV lets you wirelessly access your content from iCloud, too.” Does that mean you have to have iCloud to access your content wirelessly from your computer? Or does that just mean you are able to wirelessly access iCloud content as well?

3: My iMac glitches a lot while watching movies in iTunes or online videos if I have other stuff open. Should I assume Apple TV will work the same? Like if I am streaming a movie from my iMac to my TV will I still be able to work on things on my iMac?

4: How big of a hard drive does the box have? Are you able to directly connect an external hard drive?

Thanks.

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 6:55 PM

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vazandrew

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Posted on Mar 13, 2012 7:35 PM

1. I have seen no difference in regards to network speed on IOS vs computer. You may want to look into interference on your network.

2. You don't need iCloud to access your content wirelessly. That part of the quote is referring to specific iCloud features on the ATV. To access your local content you enable home-sharing in iTunes and ATV and then when your computer is running iTunes the ATV will be able to see your library.

3. If you are streaming a movie from your iMac, it would be over the local network (not the internet). You can't stream content web content (will have to wait until Mountain Lion for this). So when your iMac 'glitches' is it when viewing downloaded content, or only streaming content?

4. ATV 2 (and now 3) does not have an accessible hard drive (and no way to attach an external). The small flash drive is used to cache streaming content.

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vazandrew

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Mar 15, 2012 5:31 PM in response to alanchrishughes

No problem. As for the apple remote app, you can't use it as a regular remote? Although I'm sure there are apps that have that function, try searching the app store

Mar 19, 2012 11:30 PM in response to vazandrew

Is is possible to play movies from a mac onto an iPad?

vazandrew

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Mar 20, 2012 7:14 AM in response to alanchrishughes

You can sync movies to the iPad or use an app to stream movies to the device, search the app store

Mar 21, 2012 3:17 PM in response to vazandrew

Thanks. I've looked at a couple but no luck so far.

Even when my ipad is physically plugged into my imac there is no native way to just directly play movies off of the imac's hard drive? You have to save them to your ipad or find an app?

vazandrew

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Mar 21, 2012 4:12 PM in response to alanchrishughes

You could look into VNC clients that let you view and control your mac remotely, though I don't have any personal experience with them.

Examples

http://www.realvnc.com/products/ios/

http://itap-mobile.com/itap-vnc

Couple Basic Questions About Apple TV