Q: Steaming same iTunes Account from Multiple AppleTVs?
I have 5 AppleTVs in my house - one for every TV. I have purchased many movies over the years, under 1 iTunes account. Each of these 5 AppleTVs is logged in under the same username. We have had issues with an error that comes up and states "Too many of your devices are playing content from the itunes store at the same time." This only occurs when we have 3 devices already streaming, and try to add a 4th (lucky for me, there are 4 people in my house, so it's inevitable that one of my kids starts to watch something, and gets this error message!). It appears as though Apple limits the number of AppleTVs that can stream from an iTunes account concurrently, to 3. Does anyone know a workaround, or a way to escalate to Apple? I paid thousands of dollars, and went all-in on their iTunes platform for all of my movie purchases, and am now locked into a platform with constraints. Pretty frustrated. Any ideas on what I could potentially do about this? Thanks!
Posted on Feb 4, 2016 9:39 AM
FWIW. I have about 900 movies/tvshows that I keep on an external 3tb USB my and I stream locally. I got that external HD at a bestbuy sale for $50! This has been esecially convenient as my cabin has very slow internet so I can't even stream HD but with home share I watch HD whenever. Not to mention the added convenience of loading to my iphone/iPad when I travel...
Posted on Feb 4, 2016 12:51 PM