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<blockquote data-quote="Hedrick" data-source="post: 1223093" data-attributes="member: 166100"><p>After some experimentation with the ATV2 and using the Time Capsule-- I found it to be slow to pull up a movie or tv show. It's true that I do have to wake up my MBP's iTunes up. Which can be a pain sometimes.</p><p></p><p>I honestly haven't found the perfect solution to setting up my video files so that the ATV2 or ATV1 will be able to ping it. I've heard of people using a NAS or a RAID server to host theirs. Network hard drives are becoming reasonably priced-- the Western Digital one (2 TB) is around $200 at Best Buy right now.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately these solutions are just another stop along the way. When it comes to grabbing video content from a hard drive, I have yet to find a good way to take the iTunes/computer out of the equation. I'm playing around with a few more ideas, but I haven't found the one perfect solution.</p><p></p><p>This may be heresy, but other OTT devices like the Roku and WD TV are nice because you can plug in any hard drive and play many of the popular video formats. I wish this was the same with Apple TVs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hedrick, post: 1223093, member: 166100"] After some experimentation with the ATV2 and using the Time Capsule-- I found it to be slow to pull up a movie or tv show. It's true that I do have to wake up my MBP's iTunes up. Which can be a pain sometimes. I honestly haven't found the perfect solution to setting up my video files so that the ATV2 or ATV1 will be able to ping it. I've heard of people using a NAS or a RAID server to host theirs. Network hard drives are becoming reasonably priced-- the Western Digital one (2 TB) is around $200 at Best Buy right now. Unfortunately these solutions are just another stop along the way. When it comes to grabbing video content from a hard drive, I have yet to find a good way to take the iTunes/computer out of the equation. I'm playing around with a few more ideas, but I haven't found the one perfect solution. This may be heresy, but other OTT devices like the Roku and WD TV are nice because you can plug in any hard drive and play many of the popular video formats. I wish this was the same with Apple TVs. [/QUOTE]
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