Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-22 Thread Stephen Chape
Hello once again WAMUG people, I have been thinking of making Quicktime Movies of all my family videos so that I can stream them through the Apple TV (which I don't have yet) to my Television. Rather than burning them onto DVD's as I have done up until now. Does this sound like it would work

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2011-04-22 Thread Stephen Chape
@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Apple TV and movie hire ? Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Hello once again WAMUG people, I have been thinking of making Quicktime Movies of all my family videos so that I can stream them through the Apple TV (which I don't have yet) to my Television

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-22 Thread cm
Hi Stephen, Yes movies and music videos in your iTunes collection can be streamed to your Apple TV2. They can be sent via Air Play to the ATV2 from your Mac, iPad, or iPhone. Or they can be selected on the ATV2 itself from an iTunes library shared by Home Sharing. Cheers, Carlo Sent from

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2011-04-20 Thread James / Hans Kunz
PM AWST To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Apple TV and movie hire ? Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Hi all, I have been through a couple of iterations since getting my Apple TV V2. I too had an amplifier that was built not long after the ark, but it did

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you Peter .. great input !! On 19/04/2011, at 11:00 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, I have been through a couple of iterations since getting my Apple TV V2. I too had an amplifier that was built not long after the ark, but it did have an optical input. So when I had the 'old' amp, I

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-20 Thread Paul van der Mey
vanish. Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au Date: 19 April 2011 11:00:36 PM AWST To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Apple TV and movie hire ? Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Hi all, I have been through a couple

Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, I have been thinking of getting an Apple TV. Seems pretty convenient to able to play music, view photos and hire movies that way. However I have some reservations about a couple of things. I have a 20 year old Pioneer receiver without HDMI connections. Does this mean I cannot use it

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Stephen The new Apple TV is a fantastic device - but it needs an HDMI connection to the TV receiver, there is no other connection option.I assume your Pioneer TV in an analog device: time to bite the bullet and go digital! I think Apple Corp is juggling different contracts with

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread Stephen Chape
Sorry Alan, my TV is a new Sony 46 inch HD 1080 LCD. However in order to play music I would need to connect the Apple TV to my Pioneer receiver. It is the receiver that does is 20 years old and does not have an HDMI connection. My BluRay player is connected to the TV using HDMI, but also to

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread cm
Hi Stephen, As Alan mentioned, the Apple TV only has one HDMI video out port (it also has a digital audio out or TOSLINK for sound only, incase you have the older version of HDMI that does not carry sound). The expected layout is that the Apple TV connects to your TV and then your amplifier

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I have been through a couple of iterations since getting my Apple TV V2. I too had an amplifier that was built not long after the ark, but it did have an optical input. So when I had the 'old' amp, I had an HDMI cable directly from the ATV to the Plasma set AND the optical connection