Apple TV

Didn't appreciate the possibilities of this until I got an Airport Express

Couple of questions (it's easier to ask here than try to find the answers on the Apple site!):

My wireless router is 802.11g, is this fast enough to stream HD video to the Apple TV? (I'm assuming 802.11n will connect using a 'g' link)

Is there any point in going for the one with the larger HDD? Surely if the file is on the main computer, you don't really need a HDD at all?

Me too I was surprised to be using it as much as I do. Apple TV also functions as AirTunes btw. I bought the 160GB but that was unnecessary, I stream everything and store nothing. On g you should be fine except for a small buffer and probably no fast forward/rewind.

Great, thanks.

Not sure about the fast forward/rewind though- when I do that on the PS3 it seems to just skip frames... I think

All I have to do now is persuade the SO that I really, really need one

Two simple questions:
1) Can I watch iPlayer/4oD on Apple TV
2) Can I watch live TV using an Elgato device plugged in to my Mac (or ideally the Apple TV)?

1) No. There is no browser on the Apple TV and so no way to access the sites.
2) No idea.

Check out:

http://boxee.tv/



ta,
P.

It should be called iTunes TV with You Tube - that's the limitation I'm afraid. You can export EyeTV recorded programs to iTunes of course but not an ideal set up.

The TV in our house is actually an iMac running EyeTV 3. The Apple TV connects to a projector for when we want to films.

In reply to:

---

2) Can I watch live TV using an Elgato device plugged in to my Mac

---

Yes. All Freeview channels in your area.

I use the EyeTV DTT stick. (The Low end model). Good for watching, recording, burning DVD's with Toast and copying to iPod, Touch etc
Comes with EyeTV 3 software and 1 year sub to tvtv EPG

Much as I suspected...

boxee has promise, but still not there yet as it doesn't steam live TV from an elgato (or similar). There does seem to be an iPlayer plugin for xmbc, but that looks a bit early days.

Thanks all...

OK, the beast has arrived courtesy of UPS and I've been playing with it

Some questions...

1. I can only use Apple TV (playing a movie) and the Airport Express (playing music) simultaneously if I start the music first, if I start a movie first iTunes then can't send to the Airport- I get an "unknown error" when it tries to find it. So far that seems to be true even when using two computers... it's not a disaster, but it's not what I was expecting.

2. It seems to only work by "pulling" data from iTunes, it doesn't seem that you can use iTunes to "send" a movie to the the TV (a music track is OK). Bit of a bummer if you can't find the remote, which looks far to easy to mislay .

3. I can't see any way to put it on to standby without going through the menus. I've no environmental objection to leaving it on 24/7, but I'd marginally prefer not to.

In all cases, is that working as intended or have I missed something?

It won't respond to the remote that came with the iMac either (no, it's not paired), but there's some other oddities with the remotes that I need to investigate before asking any definite questions.