05-01-2007, 04:02 PM
The G4 is holding ALL of the video and sends it to the eyehome's as needed for playback (on demand). The advantage of this setup over the AppleTv is:
1) cost. My setup cost me a $50 sata card and some existing equipment. To duplicate I'd have to buy two appletv's at a price of $600.
2) flexibility. The Appletv's are pretty limited in what they can playback right now while the eyehome's can play back "just about" any drm free files. I have ton's of files the appletv could not currently playback.
3) bloat. I can't imagine loading hundreds of gigs of video into the itunes library. Backup would become difficult. It just doesn't make any sense to me to put video into the itunes library. The eyehome just shows whatever is in your movies folder.
I think I will eventually move to the appletv's but they will need to gain the ability to playback various file format's first. For now I'll keep getting my investment out of the eyehome (even though it has it's own warts).
Dave
1) cost. My setup cost me a $50 sata card and some existing equipment. To duplicate I'd have to buy two appletv's at a price of $600.
2) flexibility. The Appletv's are pretty limited in what they can playback right now while the eyehome's can play back "just about" any drm free files. I have ton's of files the appletv could not currently playback.
3) bloat. I can't imagine loading hundreds of gigs of video into the itunes library. Backup would become difficult. It just doesn't make any sense to me to put video into the itunes library. The eyehome just shows whatever is in your movies folder.
I think I will eventually move to the appletv's but they will need to gain the ability to playback various file format's first. For now I'll keep getting my investment out of the eyehome (even though it has it's own warts).
Dave