3. Game of Thrones season 5: HBO could slash Foxtel's throat thanks to Apple TV

Game of Thrones season 5: HBO could slash Foxtel's throat thanks to Apple TV

I strongly disagree with most of the things said above.

AirPlay works great for me. Your issue is quite likely poor network connectivity (e.g. if you live in an apartment, use ethernet for anything that can be plugged in and 5GHz for everything else, or if your AppleTV is a long way from your router you may need to move something closer, run a cable to it, or get a wifi repeater).

I suspect the reason you hate the AppleTV and why I like it is we're using it in quite different ways.

You want it to be a media centre, but I just want it to let me play content from various places on my (dumb; non-network-connected) TV. I treat it just as a network connection for my TV, nothing more—my initial experience was similar to yours though, so I get where you're coming from.

I really only use the AppleTV directly to watch things from iTunes (movies/series purchased from Apple). Everything else is AirPlay, mostly from/via a very old iPad, using the ABC iView, SBS, YouTube, VLC, Plex apps. I guess the iPad is effectively our media centre. So it doesn't matter if the AppleTV is locked down internally, because it's not locked down from AirPlaying whatever I want from another device.

Regarding file format, MP4 and H.264 are most definitely not "obscure and outdated" file formats/codecs. H.264 is probably going to start getting replaced with H.265 soon, but H.264 will be all over the place for some years yet. MP4 is probably not quite as widely used, but you could hardly call it obscure or outdated (MKV has a few advantages over MP4 but nothing life-changing, and its trivial to re-mux one to the other).

But ultimately, if you use the right tools, you won't notice or care about file formats or codecs. And by "right tools" I mean Plex. Where you have your own video files (from DVDs/BDs or similar), don't use iTunes to send these to the AppleTV, use Plex.

Run a Plex server on your computer/NAS (where the files are hosted). Get the Plex app for your phone/tablet, or log into the plex server from your laptop. AirPlay from that client to the AppleTV. If the original videos aren't in the right format for the AppleTV, the Plex Server will transcode them to something compatible. Ok, sure, if you're re-encoding 1080p content from something else into H.264 this means having a proper computer (any recent PC/Mac will manage); but for H.264 media (e.g. in MKVs) or SD and 720p media, it'll just work with pretty much any NAS/computer.

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