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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1207764" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I had the ATV1, and quite frankly I think it's a complete piece of garbage. I now have the Apple TV 2 and am very pleased with it. The lack of support for connected drives has not been a hinderance at all. Apple's Home Sharing protocol for streaming videos from iTunes has proven to be very fast and reliable. For example, I have one movie in particular that I ripped from my Blu-Ray that is a little under 2 hours long, yet weighs in at 8GB in size after transcoding it to 720p using ATV2-compatible settings. I can stream it wirelessly (802.11n) from my iMac to the ATV2 without a glitch. The downside is that you are limited to the video formats that it supports, but it performs better than anything else I've used, including Plex on a Mac mini HTPC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1207764, member: 38864"] I had the ATV1, and quite frankly I think it's a complete piece of garbage. I now have the Apple TV 2 and am very pleased with it. The lack of support for connected drives has not been a hinderance at all. Apple's Home Sharing protocol for streaming videos from iTunes has proven to be very fast and reliable. For example, I have one movie in particular that I ripped from my Blu-Ray that is a little under 2 hours long, yet weighs in at 8GB in size after transcoding it to 720p using ATV2-compatible settings. I can stream it wirelessly (802.11n) from my iMac to the ATV2 without a glitch. The downside is that you are limited to the video formats that it supports, but it performs better than anything else I've used, including Plex on a Mac mini HTPC. [/QUOTE]
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