I usually am too cheap to try some technology before Lance. But perhaps I bought my Apple TV before him. The trigger was a new HD Television a few weeks ago – I am collecting gadgets that do HDMI.
I purchased an Apple TV this weekend and already it is full of stuff – we have music, movies, and video podcasts all loaded on the home computers around the house. Brent has found the comedy podcasts and is having a field day.
My finest moment was getting three episodes from this season’s Dr Who recoded into MP4 so I can play them on the Apple TV.
All in all this is a very very well designed device – it uses the iTunes libraries around the house – whichever ones are up – so you stage material at a workstation (currently 2 PCs and 1 Mac are in the net).
I also put all of the family photos into th Apple TV itself with some background music – so we can watch photos.
Next it will be all the videos from my camera.