Originally Posted by MeanMint:
“Noted, but when I connected my Apple TV to my iTunes account it streamed for 15 minutes then stopped and would not play the file. The PC with iTunes was running and all files and libraries available. Tried restarting and not a sausage.
The next day I jailbroke the Apple TV. I have no real technical know how on these things never done it before. 30 Mins later it's done and streaming all my films no matter what format from my NAS drive on my network. So no need to have the PC with itunes on running.”
Yes, but you have more knowledge than the majority of consumers. I would say more than 80% of Apple buyers don't even know what a jailbreak is and wouldn;t want to do it if they did.
You already had the knowhow to get a film file onto your computer in order for it not to work (I can only assume it wasn't an M4V file which are the only files that seems to work smoothly with Apple TV).
And so you are already leaps and bounds ahead of someone with simply no knoweldge on technology, but they still want to have it and use it (I find this a hard concept to follow myself, because I would never buy anything unless I knew how it worked or what it was capable of. But so many people buy stuff because they feel they must have it before they understand what it does or, even worse, they don't know how to work it).
For someone who buys an Apple TV, is happy to buy and rent all their films and music from itunes. You can just plug in apple tv, no computer needed and it just works (after an initial account set up and log on to your router).
For others like you and me who decide to go that bit further (although I appreciate youu have gone much further than I have with my Apple TV) then it works well for us too.
The Apple TV is a great bit of kit and really not that expensive regardless of if you use it the basic way or the more complicated way.
I hope the OP has found all of this feedback usefull.