Apple TV with external HDD?

DMGrier

DMGrier

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My wife and myself are considering getting a apple tv, the only issue is hard drive space. Can I get it to save its music and movies on a external HDD?

On a side note I was wondering if the movies on Itunes that are HD are 1080p?
 
They are 720P HD Video. No but you can setup a streaming way:

Ok So Apple TV 160GB. If you have a computer with a big arse HDD like 500GB put all your music into itunes and do wireless sharing so when your on apple tv you can remotely access the MP3s. Then have the 160GB HDD for all the video BUT you can download the HD iTunes movies on your laptop then stream it to your Apple TV ;)
 
Well that is great but I guess I would reconsider getting one cause I don't want to have to have my laptop up and running to use it cause I would fill the HDD up in a few months
 
DMGrier said:
Well that is great but I guess I would reconsider getting one cause I don't want to have to have my laptop up and running to use it cause I would fill the HDD up in a few months
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I always leave my laptop on sans sleeping. Like just minimize itunes and bang your done. you could just rent the HD movies so when you finish watching them your done and it automatically deletes after 48 hours
 
My wife wants one to get rid of the dvd disk. She want to have everything on a HDD but the apple tv has such a small HDD. Looks like I will stick with the plan of building a desktop that will replace a home theater system. Does apple offer any software that is like a dvr like the windows media center?
 
DMGrier said:
My wife wants one to get rid of the dvd disk. She want to have everything on a HDD but the apple tv has such a small HDD. Looks like I will stick with the plan of building a desktop that will replace a home theater system. Does apple offer any software that is like a dvr like the windows media center?
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You have a couple of options:

Theres a roku Box, Theres probably a netflix option if you go the building a media centre option but that would require a keyboard or mouse. I would still go Apple TV and rent films because if it's a good film, download it. Crap film delete it.
 
In my opinion you'd be much happier with a dedicated media desktop hooked into your tv through vga, dvi or hdmi. I gots a terabyte to throw stuff in, hello HD movies.
 
That was my thought exactly, I am looking at building a desktop that will play bluray movies, be a dvr and stream netflix from online. I will be needing a tone of HDD space cause I will be storing all movies and music on the HDD. How much space does the bluray actually use?
 
DMGrier said:
That was my thought exactly, I am looking at building a desktop that will play bluray movies, be a dvr and stream netflix from online. I will be needing a tone of HDD space cause I will be storing all movies and music on the HDD. How much space does the bluray actually use?
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How you compress it. Build a HTPC and import the DVDs into a codec like .MKV or .AVI. For keeping the HD Quality look at .MKV first although it's hard to enough to find codec players to watch it let alone convert it plus you want a media centre app most deff for ease of use especially for the wife ;) A blueray disc is like 55GB. Well a film isn't that big unless it's the uncompressed tape rendered. I think a 90 minute movie would be about 10GB I suppose in 1080P HD. I know a 42 Minute TV Show compressed To .AVI In 720P = 900MB
 
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