Yesterday I bought an Apple TV from MBK and I've got to say I'm very impressed with it. They are not available yet from the iStore but a few shops have them in MBK.
3,500bt which isn't bad.
US -$100 (3,000bt ish)
UK - 100 pounds (4,500bt ish)
I'd say it's probably the best value Apple product about.
It's pretty small too.
It's basically a media receiver that you connect to the TV with HDMI and to your sound system with an Optical Cable. Then from your TV screen you can control your music, movies and pics that are on your computer, over your wifi network. In other countries you can use Netfilx, Hulu etc but not here yet.
You can also mirror what ever is on your iphone, ipad or computer screen onto the TV. (This was the excuse I used to buy it so that he wife can watch her Thai Tv on it which she normally watches on her ipad.)
Yes, I tested it by streaming some porn from my phones browser. It works.
So far of the things I've tried:
Music -
Streams seamlessly with no pauses or skipping that I've had with other apps. Nice to have all my music on some decent surround speakers now.
Movies -
I've watched a couple of shows today that are on my computer and again they streamed perfectly with no fuck ups.
You can set your torrent download program to automatically put all your TV shows into iTunes so after that you don't need to bother even touching the file. It goes straight to your TV.
You can download movies from the iStore but I haven't tried it. Rent is $4.99 for new movies and $3.99 for old ones.
I watched a couple of trailers and they were in HD and came down really fast.
Games:
I tried playing a game off my iphone on the big screen using the iphone as the controller but there was a bit of lag and it felt a bit strange.
Also you can control the Apple TV with your iphone which is handy as I've lost that tiny little controller a few times today.
Preemptive quote from Butterfly
Originally Posted by Butterfly