Come on guys, you saw this one coming, didn’t you? It was bound to happen at some point and now I can finally confirm that yes I have ordered an Apple TV unit. I had been umming and aaahing about it for some time, but when Jenny started hassling me about clearing out the DVDs “can’t we have them on the computer?” I thought “aha, a wife-endorsed technology”, and so it became true.
So the idea is that I will rip our DVD collection to the PC and synchronise them with the Apple TV. It’s only got 40gb so I will have to be choosy about what goes on the unit, but it will also allow her to flick through all of our photos stored on the PC, something that she has wanted for some time.
Unfortunately the units aren’t shipping until the end of the month, so I have a few more weeks to wait. Which is probably a good thing as it will take a few weeks to rip DVDs to the PC. It is a pity that itunes won’t rip DVDs the same way that it does for CDs, because ripping a DVD and converting it to a format that Apple TV can play is a lengthy process, taking around the same time as the running time of the movie. Hopefully the launch of Apple TV in the UK will coincide with TV shows and movies being available on itunes store, so we can forget the trip to the shops to buy \ hire the DVD.
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